harried

IPA: hˈɛrid

Examples of "harried" in Sentences

The director harried writers for copies.
As a result, the Germans harried the team.
I had been so "harried" of late, that I felt a certain relief in being settled _somewhere_.
And as he could not make them conform he "harried" them so that many were glad to leave the land to escape tyranny.
FRANCIS: Do you find that people are kind of harried here, they're really -- they're out of emotional gas at this point to deal with it?
He recalled harried efforts to bury corpses found on the roadside even as he and his neighbors tried to organize their families to flee the area.
They were kind of harried, but while I was running around, up and down the stairs at least 500 times over the course of the day, I was never really stressed.
It never made sense to me theologically or morally--it anthropomorphizes God into a kind of harried Big Chief in the sky whose decision making processes are influenced by the squeaky wheels.
When he explained to The Believer magazine that the travel demands were too much, the interviewer asked, "So the post has an august reputation, but to actually be sitting in the office is a kind of harried, exhausting and distracting experience?"
Another American priest who frequently visits the Vatican described the pope as "harried," which is an unsettling adjective, given that it is so rarely applied to Benedict, an academic by profession and disposition who always acts very deliberately and is rarely knocked off his game by daily events and pressures.