assault
Example Sentences
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The soldiers were frightened of Issa, whose dark powers, they suspected, had allowed him to survive the fierce assault on his house.
A look at how the reasons for war, along with objectives and timing, have shifted since the air assault began.
This incident echoed one in 2009, when the then first lady was accused of assaulting a British newspaper photographer in Hong Kong, where her daughter Bona was studying.
From BBC
Prices fell more than 20% on the first day of the U.S.-led assault.
RFA Lyme Bay is a Bay Class landing ship - not a warship - and its primary function is to deliver troops, vehicles, stores and ammunition in the case of amphibious assaults.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
