All 6 Uses
onslaught
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- There were two small rooms, dark except for the brilliant light shining through the hole: one room for shooting, the other for supplies and concealment against the onslaught.†
Chpt 1.onslaught = powerful attack; or sudden and enormous amount of something that must be handled
- But if the men in charge of America's Pacific forces were temporarily stunned by the onslaught, America's boys were spoiling for vengeance.†
Chpt 3. *
- Not toward Europe as he had hoped, to help avenge his ravaged Czech homeland, but in the opposite direction: He joined the great swarm of young American men hastily assembled, trained, armed, and rushed west to stem the shocking Japanese onslaught in the Pacific.†
Chpt 4.
- The rattlers had not been impressed by all the upheaval and the sudden onslaught of Marines.†
Chpt 5.
- Father Paul Bradley and his assistant, Max Haefele, were likewise exposed, preoccupied through the onslaught as they cared for the wounded.†
Chpt 8.
- Irene Gagnon tried to protect her son from Pauline's onslaught.†
Chpt 16.
Definitions:
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(1)
(onslaught) a powerful attack
or:
a sudden and enormous amount of something that must be handled -- such as trouble, people or communications - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)