Sentence example with the word 'assail'

assail

ambush, castigate, cry out against, fall on, go for, impugn, lash, pitch into, scathe, strike

Definition v. attack someone physically or emotionally

Last update: November 27, 2016


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The army assailed the enemy in retaliation to the bombing.   [verb]

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The army assailed on the enemy .   [verb]

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The minister was assailed with questions in the press conference.   [verb]

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Other members of the defense bar would surely look closely if their clients were apprehended because of unverifiable tips and assail the source, if they could locate it.   [verb]

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The orthodox Conservatives and some democrats who were jealous of his influence, while afraid to beard the great statesman himself, combined to assail his nearest friends.   [verb]

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"What right has the villain to assail me or stop my passage."   [verb]

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"That bespoke a foul conscience," said the mendicant;--"I wuss she wad mak a clean breast, an it were but for her sake;" and he again assailed her.   [verb]

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] The family of Milnwood were therefore surprised, and, in the unsettled state of the times, something alarmed, at the earnest and repeated knocking with which the gate was now assailed.   [verb]

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Among the thousand forms of suffering which had assailed her, nothing had seemed so hard to bear as to be deprived of his society and love.   [verb]

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I saw another line of galleys steering directly towards us, and a Roman vessel assailed by one of mine--I had named her the Selene--turn on her side and sink.   [verb]

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But what misfortunes have assailed me.   [verb]

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assai - assail - assailable