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How to use the word Hounded in a Sentence?

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These are not good days for liberty. If you look around the world, you see that the idea of freedom, freedom which contains a sense of carefree-ness, seems everywhere in retreat, hounded by guns and bombs.

Salman Rushdie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was heartbroken, george knew what it was like to be relentlessly hounded by the press… The poignancy of her passing at such a young age really did rock his world. He was also deeply affected by Whitney Houston’s death [in 2012]. He was petrified that he might end up the same way that Whitney did. And in fact, that pretty much happened.

James Gavin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The board fee had morphed into a wicked, sort of, funny money, it hounded me to spend recklessly, dangerously, destructively, humiliatingly. So I did.

Hunter Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It felt like you're almost suffocating. It was just like, I felt like, what was I going to do? I was a kid and maybe this is in my best interests and maybe this is what I'm supposed to do because of course I don't want to be hounded by the paparazzi or tabloids or allow them to control my narrative. But it felt like I was really being alienated.

Jamie Lynn

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the coming months we will be forced to come to grips with the details of a murder that is still unimaginable, i am constantly hounded by the question : How did we get here ? How does a man take the life of his wife and the mother of his daughters ?

Barry Morphew

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was made to feel like I was disgusting and in the end I was hounded out on some trumped-up charges, and told that because I was attracted to men, my 18 years of service counted for nothing, it was heartbreaking. It took me years to recover.

Joe Ousalice

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We know very well that FIFA's ethics committee has been very close to the former managers, notably Sepp Blatter ... who is perhaps dragging down with him the man he expected to be his successor but who was not always the man he wanted to see take his place, i regret this because Michel Platini is in a sense being hounded. Was he able to defend himself under fair conditions? I'm not convinced.

Patrick Kanner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Wouldn't it be nice if Love, Joy and #PEACE hounded you the way negativity does? You might actually make different decisions in life.

Justice Calo Reign

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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