assailed

past tense of assail
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of assailed The sheriff and her legal team have repeatedly assailed Cordell’s report, commissioning their own review by former Riverside County Superior Court Judge Burke Strunsky, who criticized Cordell’s reliance on anonymous sources and unrecorded interviews. Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025 Staci Ibarra, another warden who left the department in May — after she was put on administrative leave in the wake of an inmate’s death — assailed a practice in which maximum security inmates had their classification downgraded. Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 30 Aug. 2025 Republicans historically have assailed federal efforts under Democrats to pick winners and losers in the broader economy. Kristina Karisch, The Hill, 26 Aug. 2025 Shildt assailed the logic of the folks at Major League Baseball’s Replay Command Center in New York City. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025 The first seven months of his second term went by without much focus on the issue until earlier this month, when a Department of Government Efficiency staffer was assailed by several juveniles. Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 13 Aug. 2025 Our eyes are increasingly assailed by ultra-bright billboard ads, dazzling street lights, and glowing personal screens. Matt Fuchs, Time, 4 Aug. 2025 Thomas wrote a dissenting opinion, to which Alito also attached his name, and assailed the court majority for refusing to hear Alabama's case. Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025 The high-drama scene the mayor will be walking into is hardly his first time being assailed over immigration. Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assailed
Verb
  • Captured on live television, rioters attacked the Capitol and breached the Senate floor.
    Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • In 1986, Iranian warplanes attacked Emirati oil platforms off the coast of the capital, Abu Dhabi.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In March, Adra’s co-director on the film Hamdan Ballal was detained by Israeli forces overnight after being assaulted by settlers just after an iftar dinner during Ramadan.
    Max Saltman, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • In April, 2021, two Chinese women were assaulted outside the town’s only Asian grocery store.
    Beth Lew-Williams, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the aftermath of the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, several Democratic power players mourned him and slammed political violence.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The vehicle then went off the roadway and slammed into a utility box, a sheriff’s news release said.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Multiple smoke shops in Connecticut that were raided had been caught selling products to minors.
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The charges come after the FBI in June 2022 raided at least three churches associated with the House of Prayer Christian Churches in Georgia and Texas, established just miles from Fort Gordon, Fort Stewart and Fort Hood.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Family matriarch Donna Adelson was scolded by a judge Thursday for weeping in the courtroom after being convicted of orchestrating a 2014 murder-for-hire plot of her former son-in-law, a prominent Florida State University law professor.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Lox's reaction to being scolded.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In one incident, his attorney said, Egyptian forces with machine guns stormed into an apartment where Soliman was asleep with his wife and young child.
    Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement Advertisement Protesters stormed the Parliament in Kathmandu, and police responded with tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannons, and, according to human rights organization Amnesty International, live ammunition.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The story struck a nerve with readers, who didn’t mince words.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In a video Trump posted to a social media, a small boat can be seen bobbing the water before being struck, resulting in a cloud of black smoke.
    Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025

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