All 3 Uses of
onslaught
in
Lone Survivor
- Less than one month later, on October 7, the Americans, leading a small coalition force, unleashed an onslaught against Afghanistan that shook that area of the world to its foundations.
Chpt 2. *onslaught = powerful attack
- Somehow these hickory-tough tribesmen not only survived the onslaught of American bombing and escaped from the advancing Northern Alliance, but they also evaded one of the biggest manhunts in the history of warfare as an increasingly frustrated United States moved heaven and earth to capture bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and the rest.
Chpt 2.onslaught = powerful attack; or sudden and enormous amount of something that must be handled
- The eerie silence of those mountains retreated before the second decibel onslaught of the night.
Chpt 12.
Definition:
a powerful attack
or:
a sudden and enormous amount of something that must be handled -- such as trouble, people or communications
or:
a sudden and enormous amount of something that must be handled -- such as trouble, people or communications