Example Sentences

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News vans began camping around the block at the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women’s Hollywood Boulevard headquarters, queuing up for interviews.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2024

Assaults in the opposition press and media were to be expected, but assaults on my family and me were another matter.

From Salon • Dec. 9, 2023

Anyone with more information is asked to contact Detective Dan Bowman of the San Jose Police Department's Assaults Unit at 408-277-4161.

From Fox News • Jun. 23, 2020

It would continue to mean “to hinder” for centuries — Quinion cites this 1690 example written by William Leybourn: “A Ditch, of sufficient … breadth, and depth, to impeach the Assaults of an Enemy.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2019

He doth not comprehend my full Palsy nor how Agitation inspires its Assaults through the Disequilibrium of the Humors, viz. the Superabundance of Bile.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson