How to Use attack in a Sentence

attack

1 of 3 verb

• He attacked the guard with a knife.
• The troops attacked at dawn.
• Troops attacked the fortress at dawn.
• Did you see the way the kids attacked that pizza?
• The professor has been widely attacked for her position on the issue.
• People are attacking the mayor for breaking campaign promises.
• The man hit the ground, and the mob attacked.
  — Gina Barton, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
• Basij check points have been attacked by drones.
  — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 22 Mar. 2026
• That’s when two drunk teen girls attacked her.
  — Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 2 June 2026
• And, fears that Iran could attack us here at home.
  — Bill Wachsberger, Baltimore Sun, 14 Mar. 2026
• How many people are attacked by sharks each year?
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 9 Feb. 2026
• Is a taboo crossed when someone attacks?
  — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 24 Jan. 2026
• There have been some teams that have tried to attack the high fastball.
  — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
• Crabtree stopped, turned, attacked the ball and snagged it.
  — The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
• This was not the first time Nassar has been attacked in prison.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
• The youngest is a barn owl that was found with bite marks on her after her nest was attacked.
  — Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Jan. 2026
• And sometimes two or three villages are attacked at the same time.
  — Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
• The coach who embraces reporters or the one who attacks them?
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• Democrats attacked this latest push.
  — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
• When the father refused, he was attacked with a knife.
  — Zahra Nader, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
• Three were children when Gombert attacked them.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2026
• All the while, knowing the people who attacked them were still out there.
  — Lauren Clark, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
• Some weeds, such as thistle and mustard, are hosts for aphids that attack quinoa.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Apr. 2026
• Several ships have been attacked as well there.
  — Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026
• Trump attacking the justices who ruled against him.
  — ABC News, 22 Feb. 2026
• Videos show the girlfriend, then 15, ran to his side when he was first attacked.
  — Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
• Change management must attack this head-on.
  — Peter Fitzgibbon, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• Cowser was leaving the grocery store when a teen from the group attacked her.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
• Miz attacked Hayes after being told that their tag team is over.
  — Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
• Video footage shows a man with a large backpack attacking shoppers in the store.
  — Detroit Free Press, Freep.com, 28 Sep. 2025

attack

2 of 3 noun

• The surprise attack came at dawn.
• The immune system is the body's defense against attack by germs.
• The spray protects plants from attacks by many common pests.
• There is a threat of nuclear attack.
• There have been many attacks against the professor for her position on the issue.
• The newspaper editorial is an attack on policy-makers.
• But the attack will come at you via email.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
• This was not a smash-and-grab attack.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026
• So the attack took place here a short while ago.
  — NBC news, 1 Mar. 2026
• The Poland attack was a fire drill.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• Rashford looks set to start from the left of the attack.
  — Pol Ballús, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
• They were killed in a March 1 drone attack.
  — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
• Hours later, those attacks had yet to be launched.
  — James Hider, NPR, 1 June 2026
• Four church members died in the attack.
  — John Wisely, Freep.com, 29 Sep. 2025
• Gout attacks can cause severe swelling and pain.
  — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 12 Jan. 2026
• Not all attacks fit the same pattern, though.
  — Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
• The feeling of attack doesn't stop there.
  — ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
• Some of them may have been sleeping at the start of the brutal attack.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 27 June 2023
• In the event of an attack, use of smoke may be necessary.
  — Carolyn Forché, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
• Brave said that such attacks can happen up to 10 times a day.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
• No one was injured at the event, and no attack was carried out.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC news, 22 June 2026
• Bird’s no vote and absence may have spared her attack ads from Evans.
  — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 8 Feb. 2026
• Now, the team will have to seek safety until the attacks are over.
  — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 1 Mar. 2026
• There are no reports of any injuries from the attacks.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN Money, 25 May 2026
• Williams never found much of a rhythm with the passing attack.
  — The Athletic Nfl Staff, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
• That makes many older attack tricks harder to pull off.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
• In April, four more people were killed in a drone attack on a city bus.
  — Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
• How many people die from shark attacks every year?
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 15 Dec. 2025
• Michigan church attack leaves at least 4 dead 2.
  — FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025
• The attack damaged market stalls and a shop.
  — Arkansas Online, 5 Apr. 2026

attack

3 of 3 adjective

• The bombers were in attack formation.
• There’s some sort of a ceasefire, and within a few months, Russia can decide to re-attack.
  — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
• But matters weren’t helped by MacArthur’s post-attack grandstanding.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2020
• The Rapids were most successful in 2019 with a pressing and counter-attack style.
  — Jake Shapiro, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2020
• Zaha, on the counter-attack, side-footed a volley off an arcing cross from Pep Biel that capped the scoring in the 80th minute.
  — ABC News, 4 Apr. 2026
• Among its findings are that most attackers exhibit indicators of pre-attack behavior.
  — Brooke Baitinger, Sun Sentinel, 15 June 2022
• Then, with the click of a button, the original data can be immediately rolled back to its pre-attack state, essentially rendering ransomware threats impotent.
  — Yuen Pin Yeap, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• Lexington’s first goal came in the match’s 25th minute, as Alyssa Bourgeois capitalized on a counter-attack opportunity.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 18 Mar. 2026
• Only City and Arsenal have a stronger home record this season than Sunderland (seven wins and five draws from 12 games), and no team has scored more counter-attack goals than Brentford.
  — Graham Ruthven, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
• After conceding three more counter-attack goals at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan last weekend, there’s an increasing feeling that when the press doesn’t quite click, things are more liable to go spectacularly wrong.
  — Thom Harris, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
• The idea was that, by breaking through the press, City could either force Leeds back into their own box and establish control, or attack through the lines quickly, generating those ‘false counter-attack’ situations, just in a safer way than lumping it up front.
  — Sam Lee, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
• The breathless approach taken by Mauricio Pochettino made way for the pragmatism of Jose Mourinho, while a low-block-and-counter-attack approach was short-lived under Nuno Espirito Santo.
  — Thom Harris, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026