Sample Sentences for
assail
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    She took every opportunity to assail the policy.
    assail = attack
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    To one who lived with violence and death, it was especially poignant to see them assailed, but I had the sense that the meaning of it did not stop there, that of this battle something would come other than suffering.  (source)
    assailed = attacked
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    They only laughed and poked sticks at him, which he promptly assailed with his teeth till he realized that that was what they wanted.  (source)
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    I was immediately assailed by the scent.  (source)
    assailed = assaulted
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    Let three men assail him, or four, or five; it made no matter. He slew them one at a time, trusting in his steel to protect him from the others. As each foe fell he turned his wrath upon the next.  (source)
    assail = attack
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    The more he thought, the more puzzled he became, until suddenly it "flashed upon my mind that a retreat was the object, and that the order for assailing the enemy was but a cover to the real design."  (source)
    assailing = attacking
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    His well-laid plan had failed, its sequel was problematical; there was still a great chance now that the Scarlet Pimpernel might yet escape, and Chauvelin, with that unreasoning fury, which sometimes assails a strong nature, was longing to vent his rage on somebody.†  (source)
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    So they continued repositioning their warriors for an opportune strike, moving their children and womenfolk in the remaining boats to the as yet unassailed moorings of Lonelywood, similar to the strategies of the refugee forces on the other two lakes.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unassailed means not and reverses the meaning of assailed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    but fear'd it most, When love assail'd you, on the Libyan coast.†  (source)
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    In other words, the head and face were those of a man who might move the world more readily than the world could move him—a man to be twice twelve times tortured into the shapeless cripple he was, without a groan, much less a confession; a man to yield his life, but never a purpose or a point; a man born in armor, and assailable only through his loves.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    Nor could he avoid being assailed by doubt.  (source)
    assailed = troubled
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    If we make no answer, the Enemy may move Men of his rule to assail King Brand, and Dain also.†  (source)
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    Hygeia was assailing Piper with health care questions.†  (source)
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