9 uses
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Definition
to attack someone or something physically or verbally; or to threaten violence
- That they were under assault was not a matter of question.Chapter 1 (74% in)
- No evidence of sexual assault.Chapter 4 (45% in)
- The frame splintered under the weight of an assault.Chapter 12 (96% in)
- "First of all there's this business of your assault on the DA after you discovered his relationship with your wife.Chapter 13 (32% in)
- The man you assaulted.Chapter 15 (25% in)
- I hardly assaulted him.Chapter 15 (25% in)
- Six: Still suffering from the emotional break, Ryan had lost his calm and assaulted that man, which did nothing but give them all grounds to legally exclude him from their lives with a restraining order.Chapter 17 (15% in)
- And his falling out with Celine and Bethany provided the motivation for this most recent assault.Chapter 19 (85% in)
- An estranged father of the victim and a hostile ex-husband who'd broken into the administration building two months earlier and physically assaulted the district attorney.Chapter 20 (46% in)
There are no more uses of "assault" in BoneMan's Daughters.
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