How to Use assault in a Sentence

assault

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• She was injured in a brutal assault.
• The men would wake up and have no memory of the assaults.
  — Tim Fitzsimons, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2020
• Brooks was later asked to pledge not to sue over the assault.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 10 July 2018
• 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
• There was a lot of safe storage in those bills, a lot of ban of assault weapons.
  — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
• And so, with just three days before the wedding, the assault is on.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2019
• The victim was 18 years old at the time of the assault.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 24 Dec. 2022
• Murder charges have been filed against a suspect in the assault.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• During the drone assault, some inmates fired back at the drones.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
• The day after the assault, the girl told her mother what occurred.
  — Amanda Marrazzo, McHenry County, 4 Apr. 2018
• The judge didn’t buy it, and found Almeida guilty of assault.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• Because we, my friends, are in the midst of an all-out assault on truth.
  — Benjamin Lindsay, vanityfair.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• This was an hourslong assault that brought the mob to the very chamber doors of the House.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
• He was charged with two counts of fourth-degree assault.
  — Kala Kachmar, The Courier-Journal, 30 Dec. 2022
• She was named as the victim last year in an assault charge against Paul.
  — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 28 July 2011
• The only person at fault for an assault is the one committing the crime.
  — Natasha Lavender, SELF, 26 Feb. 2019
• The amphibious assault ship burned for more than four days.
  — Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2021
• Apart from the assault itself, these past couple of weeks have been the hardest of my life.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 27 Sep. 2018
• The suspect is wanted on charges of robbery and assault.
  — Vandana Rambaran, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2020
• Moïse’s wife was also shot in the assault that killed her husband.
  — Tamanisha John, The Conversation, 7 July 2021
• Brooks has been charged with eight counts of assault with intent to murder.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com, 28 Jan. 2018
• The victim told police she was bound during the assault.
  — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 5 Oct. 2021
• The assault happened a year and a half ago, but the trial is happening now.
  — Rebecca Makkai, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• Such violence is not new but the scale and nature of the latest assaults mark a shift.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017
• The video does not include audio, and police did not say what may have led to the assault.
  — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 28 June 2020
• Tanuz is confident that the case will progress and suspects will be charged for the assault.
  — Vanesa Brashier, Houston Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2018
• Of the nine, six were convicted on lesser assault charges and three were freed.
  — Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE.com, 3 Mar. 2022
• The 1-year-old, who was in the room during the assault, began to cry.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2022
• Quioto led the assault in the first five minutes although his attempt—the first shot in the game—went wide.
  — Glynn A. Hill, Houston Chronicle, 8 July 2018
• He was charged with two counts of second-degree assault.
  — Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019

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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.
• The boy who was assaulted had a room on the third floor.
  — Tonya Alanez, sun-sentinel.com, 12 June 2019
• So on Monday the charge was changed to assault with a firearm.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Then the man in the car exited the car, assaulted the woman and snatched her cell phone.
  — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• After the victim fell to the ground, the suspect began to further assault him.
  — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Images of pleasure and pain, fear and joy, love and hate assault us from all the angles.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2010
• There was a time when you weren’t assaulted with it morning, noon and night.
  — Katie Glueck, Town & Country, 29 June 2017
• The woman was crying, and pregnant, and said the man had assaulted her.
  — Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• The report also said that one of the men broke a glass door and assaulted an employee.
  — P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 5 July 2018
• 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
• Members of the group then left the parking lot to assault other cars and shoot paintballs at passersby.
  — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
• There is no rule about who gets assaulted, nor is there one about who gets believed.
  — Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2018
• The couple was robbed and assaulted by an armed man, and two teeth were knocked out of the family dog’s mouth.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 13 Sep. 2019
• So too were more than a dozen Hindus, most of them shot or assaulted.
  — Joanna Slaterand Niha Masih, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2020
• The video then showed Ngoy rip the woman's pants down and assault her, the affidavit states.
  — NBC News, 20 Oct. 2021
• Lublin alleged that she was dragged into a bedroom and assaulted, the suit said.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 15 June 2023
• The suspect did assault a family member with a weapon, the sheriff said.
  — Dennis Rudner, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Apr. 2022
• He was left alone with one gendarme, who said Traoré then assaulted him and ran.
  — Henry Grabar, New York Press Room, 1 Feb. 2017
• Lazaro-Castillo slapped the child on the leg and continued assaulting his wife.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2023
• More than a dozen of you specified that you were assaulted in villages, some of which are off the road system.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2019
• He’d be gently laughed at by people who might assault their neighbors for wearing the same.
  — Eamon Lynch, azcentral, 15 July 2019
• Sommer says he was assaulted by a crew member and had his notes snatched from him while reporting on the film.
  — Anna Silman, The Cut, 13 July 2018
• At nineteen he was assaulted at a night club by a mob of white sailors who thought that his light-skinned date was a white woman.
  — Adam Shatz, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2019
• One woman told police she was assaulted by him twice last fall.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2018
• But most of the people who assault and harass women (and people of all genders) are men.
  — refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• An injured woman told them that the suspect assaulted her.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 31 July 2023
• The woman was assaulted by her boyfriend, the father of her children, Ryan said.
  — Jonathan Lai, Philly.com, 22 Dec. 2017

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