Sample Sentences for
assault
(editor-reviewed)

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    Assault, theft, and disturbing the peace.  (source)
    Assault = the crime of physically attacking someone
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    A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault.  (source)
    assault = attack
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    He knew the assault would resume as soon as the bus got rolling, and he braced grimly for Dana's next blow.  (source)
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    How much Gandalf knew cannot be said, but it is plain that he had not expected this sudden assault.  (source)
    assault = attack
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    They're assaulted by…what?  (source)
    assaulted = attacked
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    Under the pitiless double assaults of her mother and grandmother, the cottage where she lived was always squeaking clean, mopped and swept and scoured into limp submission.  (source)
    assaults = attacks (figuratively)
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    They did know ... the tactics of assaulting the enemy's position on a star.  (source)
    assaulting = attacking
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    The assaulter becomes the assaulted.†  (source)
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    A man is assaulted, fears present death, from which he sees not how to escape, but by wounding him that assaulteth him; If he wound him to death, this is no Crime; because no man is supposed at the making of a Common-wealth, to have abandoned the defence of his life, or limbes, where the Law cannot arrive time enough to his assistance.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She assaulteth" in older English, today we say "She assaults."
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    I did my best not to give away anything of my exasperation on discovering that a task I had thought all but behind me was in fact still there unassaulted before me.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unassaulted means not and reverses the meaning of assaulted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    They have learned something from the failure of last night's assault.  (source)
    assault = attack
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    This is the same guy that Mike Harris assaulted in the bar?  (source)
    assaulted = attacked
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    there were about a hundred gun assaults last year, country wide.  (source)
    assaults = attacks
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