How to Use assault in a Sentence

assault

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  • She was injured in a brutal assault.
  • The victim was 18 years old at the time of the assault.
    — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The 1-year-old, who was in the room during the assault, began to cry.
    — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2022
  • The judge didn’t buy it, and found Almeida guilty of assault.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • This was an hourslong assault that brought the mob to the very chamber doors of the House.
    — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
  • Brooks was later asked to pledge not to sue over the assault.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 10 July 2018
  • The men would wake up and have no memory of the assaults.
    — Tim Fitzsimons, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2020
  • And so, with just three days before the wedding, the assault is on.
    — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2019
  • There was a lot of safe storage in those bills, a lot of ban of assault weapons.
    — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Because we, my friends, are in the midst of an all-out assault on truth.
    — Benjamin Lindsay, vanityfair.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The Naperville City Council last month voted 8-1 to ban assault weapons in the city.
    — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2022
  • She was named as the victim last year in an assault charge against Paul.
    — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 28 July 2011
  • In 2016, he was charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
    — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 6 July 2018
  • During the drone assault, some inmates fired back at the drones.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The same poll showed that 77% of Latinos now support a ban on assault weapons.
    — Eli Stokolsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 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
  • The day after the assault, the girl told her mother what occurred.
    — Amanda Marrazzo, McHenry County, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Murder charges have been filed against a suspect in the assault.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 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
  • He was charged with two counts of fourth-degree assault.
    — Kala Kachmar, The Courier-Journal, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Tanuz is confident that the case will progress and suspects will be charged for the assault.
    — Vanesa Brashier, Houston Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Moïse’s wife was also shot in the assault that killed her husband.
    — Tamanisha John, The Conversation, 7 July 2021
  • The assault happened a year and a half ago, but the trial is happening now.
    — Rebecca Makkai, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Of the nine, six were convicted on lesser assault charges and three were freed.
    — Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • This, Miss Manners hopes, will at least give your guests pause to consider the alarming effect of their dual-handed assault on your door.
    — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2023
  • The filming ended up unearthing some of Union's own understanding of her assault.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2023
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assault

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  • 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
  • Among them: a 2017 write-up for assaulting staff with a weapon.
    — Joe Marusak and Ames Alexander, charlotteobserver, 29 June 2018
  • The video then showed Ngoy rip the woman's pants down and assault her, the affidavit states.
    — NBC News, 20 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Then the man in the car exited the car, assaulted the woman and snatched her cell phone.
    — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Adim assaulted a woman on a cruise ship in 2016 and faced charged that very same year.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 26 June 2018
  • After the victim fell to the ground, the suspect began to further assault him.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • There are dozens of good pitchers in MLB that don’t assault women.
    — Barry Bauling, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • So too were more than a dozen Hindus, most of them shot or assaulted.
    — Joanna Slaterand Niha Masih, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The couple was robbed and assaulted by an armed man, and two teeth were knocked out of the family dog’s mouth.
    — Ashley Remkus | [email protected], al, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Kruger drugged and assaulted girls between 13 and 16 years old.
    — Justin Madden, cleveland.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • He was left alone with one gendarme, who said Traoré then assaulted him and ran.
    — Henry Grabar, New York Press Room, 1 Feb. 2017
  • He’s also accused of assaulting Michael Dupree, who owned the shop with Cook.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Lazaro-Castillo slapped the child on the leg and continued assaulting his wife.
    — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The woman was assaulted by her boyfriend, the father of her children, Ryan said.
    — Jonathan Lai, Philly.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Mayers, 35, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of assaulting Ephron with a firearm.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 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
  • The report also said that one of the men broke a glass door and assaulted an employee.
    — P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 5 July 2018
  • The deputy shot Gainer after the teen allegedly tried to assault the deputy, the release said.
    — Cindy Von Quednow, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • On March 27 Bethenny Frankel weighed in, saying that she, too, had been assaulted while minding her business on the street.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Pauly Shore and his club the Comedy Store are being sued by a comedian who claims he was assaulted by the club’s security in December.
    — Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024

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