How to Use assault in a Sentence

assault

1 of 2 noun

• She was injured in a brutal assault.
• In less than a minute, the assault was over.
  — Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 4 Nov. 2025
• My mother called them an assault on teeth.
  — Kate Crane, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2026
• Brooks was later asked to pledge not to sue over the assault.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 10 July 2018
• The felony assault charge calls for up to eight years behind bars.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
• He’s charged with two counts of first-degree of assault.
  — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2026
• Kirk condemned the assault at the time.
  — Curt Devine, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
• There was a lot of safe storage in those bills, a lot of ban of assault weapons.
  — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
• Being a survivor of assault or rape is not a club.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2026
• Neha calls heat stress a constant assault on her body and mind.
  — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 1 Apr. 2026
• Cosell seems to see the assault as an honor … even a reward!
  — Will Leitch, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
• The judge didn’t buy it, and found Almeida guilty of assault.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• Murder charges have been filed against a suspect in the assault.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• She was named as the victim last year in an assault charge against Paul.
  — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 28 July 2011
• Moïse’s wife was also shot in the assault that killed her husband.
  — Tamanisha John, The Conversation, 7 July 2021
• And so, with just three days before the wedding, the assault is on.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2019
• Brooks has been charged with eight counts of assault with intent to murder.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com, 28 Jan. 2018
• During the drone assault, some inmates fired back at the drones.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
• Most were assaults, five were homicides and two were robberies.
  — Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 10 Feb. 2026
• That year, squeegee kids were accused of being armed, of thefts and assaults.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 2026
• Snider's team did not provide any details about the assault.
  — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 4 Nov. 2025
• The 59-year-old died from an assault, police said.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2025
• Trump has launched an assault on our democracy.
  — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
• The call for the assault was one street away from where the body of the elderly man was found.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 19 Mar. 2021
• No arrests have been announced in the assault.
  — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 16 June 2026
• With each passing month, his assault has deepened.
  — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
• The teen was then arrested for assault.
  — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
• That includes crimes like robbery, assault and theft.
  — Ashley Grams, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
• The 1-year-old, who was in the room during the assault, began to cry.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2022
• This looks to Walz like an all-out federal assault on his state.
  — Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026

assault

2 of 2 verb

• Enemy forces assaulted the city.
• She verbally assaulted one of her coworkers.
• He was arrested for assaulting a police officer.
• This was not the first time Watkins was assaulted in prison.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 11 Oct. 2025
• So on Monday the charge was changed to assault with a firearm.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
• Finale was about a mile from home when was assaulted.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026
• There was a time when you weren’t assaulted with it morning, noon and night.
  — Katie Glueck, Town & Country, 29 June 2017
• There is no rule about who gets assaulted, nor is there one about who gets believed.
  — Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2018
• At that point, I was assaulted.
  — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• Phillips pleaded not guilty to assault and other charges.
  — David Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2026
• He was never charged with anything, let alone assault.
  — Seth Stern, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
• One was 17 when she was assaulted.
  — Bridget Read, Curbed, 9 Mar. 2026
• This time, the scheme worked, and the victim was held with zip ties and duct tape and assaulted.
  — Andy Rose, CNN Money, 14 May 2026
• So too were more than a dozen Hindus, most of them shot or assaulted.
  — Joanna Slaterand Niha Masih, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2020
• In the worst instances, others have been assaulted or raped or have even died.
  — Max Blau, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 2025
• In the first quarter of last year, bus drivers were assaulted three times.
  — Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 2 June 2026
• Taylor pleaded guilty in abeyance to assault and the other charges were dropped.
  — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 4 June 2026
• He was left alone with one gendarme, who said Traoré then assaulted him and ran.
  — Henry Grabar, New York Press Room, 1 Feb. 2017
• Images of pleasure and pain, fear and joy, love and hate assault us from all the angles.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2010
• Phillips said deputies learned the suspect assaulted the victim and set the house on fire with a torch.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023
• No prizes for guessing which of these three little piggies will lure her to his place and try to assault her.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 24 Dec. 2020
• And there’s nothing worse, arguably, than an adult assaulting a child.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2023
• The girl was between the ages of 4 and 10 when she was assaulted.
  — Ryanne Mena, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
• Then the man in the car exited the car, assaulted the woman and snatched her cell phone.
  — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• The scene and images of me assaulting Cassie play over and over in my head daily.
  — Lauren Del Valle, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
• The scene and images of me assaulting Cassie play over and over in my head daily.
  — Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 3 Oct. 2025
• Lublin alleged that she was dragged into a bedroom and assaulted, the suit said.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 15 June 2023
• He’d be gently laughed at by people who might assault their neighbors for wearing the same.
  — Eamon Lynch, azcentral, 15 July 2019
• The woman was crying, and pregnant, and said the man had assaulted her.
  — Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• He was placed in handcuffs and charged with assaulting an officer, his own blood all over his shirt.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 21 Aug. 2019