assailant

Example Sentences

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She said the assailant had a local accent, with a trace of another, and a shiny hairless chest.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

The organization, which monitors jihadist groups, identified the assailant, who was shot dead by police, as Ndiaga Diagne, a US citizen of Senegalese origin.

From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026

The assailant, identified as Anthony Kazmierczak, had the sort of online posting history that you would expect and had told a neighbor that he might be arrested at an upcoming Omar event.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2026

From behind, a bystander—the man Australian officials identified as Ahmed—bear-tackled the assailant, put him in a headlock and stripped his gun from him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Both he and the men in the store had spent the entire day hunting for Emma Lee’s assailant in the brush and swamplands of the beach.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy