assailant

Example Sentences

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The sheriff said the assailant appeared to be alone in the vehicle and police dogs were checking the car for explosives.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

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

From BBC • Mar. 12, 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

However, when the scene is reenacted many times under comparable lighting conditions by a court investigating the case, the victim correctly identifies the race of the assailant only about 80 percent of the time.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos