1. Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. 

2. The besetting sin of 18th-century urban Britain was drunkenness.

3. Our troops was beset by enemy fire.

4. The enemy beset the town with a strong army.

5. In the swamp the army was beset by mosquitoes.

6. The country has been beset by economic woes for the past decade.

7. It is a neighborhood beset by all the usual inner-city problems.

8. She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.

9. The policemen beset the only road into the building.

10. The plan was beset with difficulties from the beginning.

11. The business has been beset with financial problems.

12. The Complaints Department was beset by angry customers.

13. The voyage was beset with dangers.

14. The project was beset with difficulties.

15. The crown was beset with pearls,[/besetting.html]emeralds and rubies.

16. This factory was beset by difficulties.

17. Beset by drug problems, prostitution, violence and vandalism, this is one of the most unpleasant areas in the city.

18. That country is beset with difficulties at home and abroad.

19. She has a gold bracelet that was beset with jewels.

20. It's one of the most difficult problems besetting our modern way of life.

21. It was further decided that such watching and besetting might be a nuisance at common law and illegal on that ground also.

22. The besetting sin of the time was drunkenness, and a couple of notorious drunks lived near Richard Baxter.

23. Laziness is my besetting sin.

24. Your besetting sin is laziness.

25. His besetting sin is laziness.

26. Casting reflections on others is her besetting sin.

27. Food crisis, energy crisis, the financial crisis besetting the world.

28. These are the five Besetting sins of a general , ruinous to the conduct of war.

29. What courage can withstand the everduring and all - besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?

30. Abashed at this question, I answered that sloth was my besetting temptation.

1. The besetting sin of 18th-century urban Britain was drunkenness.

31. Dick was a fine person, apart from his besetting sin - he drank too much.

32. I know he couldn't love a Linton; and yet he'd be quite capable of marrying your fortune and expectations! avarice is growing with him a besetting sin.

33. They came at least once every year or so, mainly to help Uncle besetting loneliness.

34. But it is just in this besetting dinginess that flowers begin to show their faces in bright and fascinating glory.

35. Namucuo is a large precious mirror besetting on Northern Tibet Grassland.

36. The besetting sin of this theory is that it often tends to confuse cause with effect.