Example Sentences

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In Oklahoma: “Warning. Assaulting a medical professional who is engaged in the performance of his or her official duties is a serious crime.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Det Sgt Thomas Crosfill said: "Assaulting emergency service workers is not acceptable, and our police dogs provide vital assistance to us. They are part of the police family."

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2022

Assaulting the walls of fortified cities rarely goes quickly and rarely goes well.

From Slate • May 13, 2019

When Andrew Keen's The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting our Economy appeared in 2007, its subtitle was music to many ears.

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2011

Assaulting truths, of which in all Is sown the sacred seed!

From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Young, Edward