Sample Sentences for
onslaught
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    The referee stopped the fight after an unanswered onslaught two minutes into the third round.
    onslaught = a powerful attack (in this case, many punches)
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    His fists were half cocked, as if expecting an onslaught from both of us.  (source)
    onslaught = powerful attack
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    When I finally do come to my senses, I lie still, waiting for the next onslaught of imagery.  (source)
    onslaught = powerful attack; or sudden and enormous amount of something that must be handled
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    As if the taunting gave Thomas a sudden burst of courage, he walked over to the lit door, ignoring the creaking floorboards and laughter downstairs—ignoring the onslaught of words he didn't understand, suppressing the dreadful feelings they induced.  (source)
    onslaught = sudden and enormous amount of something
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    These men, a picked striking force of gallants, resumed the onslaughts of the previous afternoon.†  (source)
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    Breton spring, and a great onslaught of damp invades the coast.  (source)
    onslaught = powerful attack; or sudden and enormous amount of something that must be handled
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    His keen onslaughts against slavery, in fact, carry the conviction of a man of far greater moral force than the pre-presidential Lincoln ever revealed in action.†  (source)
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    The onslaught of her fatigue, like his, was sudden, but lasted for years.  (source)
    onslaught = powerful attack
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    But one mark of a writer's greatness is that different minds can find in him different inspirations; and Professor Erlin, who hated the Prussians, gave his enthusiastic admiration to Goethe because his works, Olympian and sedate, offered the only refuge for a sane mind against the onslaughts of the present generation.†  (source)
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    It hurled Ender out of the way of the rest of the first onslaught, though he still wasn't getting any closer to the door.  (source)
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    The disease resumed its onslaughts.†  (source)
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    They had only stemmed the first onslaught of the black tide.  (source)
    onslaught = powerful attack; or sudden and enormous amount of something that must be handled
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    The heavers, exposing their mouths to repeated onslaughts of stomach acid, lost the enamel on their teeth and eventually the teeth themselves.†  (source)
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