are assailing
- present progressive of assail.
Example Sentences
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“The Anti-Vacks are assailing me … with all the force they can muster in the newspapers,” Jenner himself wrote in an 1812 letter.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2021
Many policymakers and bankers in Europe are assailing floating rates partly on the argument that they have not, as promised, ended speculative swings in world currency markets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Critics ranging from union leaders to management experts are assailing the increases as an affront to workers and a potential threat to the economy.
From Time Magazine Archive
As for charges by some that they are assailing problems abroad while ignoring injustices at home, the demonstrators remain resolutely unshaken.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Egyptian commissioners are vainly endeavouring to restore peace and order, like General Gordon in the Soudan, while Babylonians and Mitannians, Hittites and Beduin are assailing the distracted province.
From Patriarchal Palestine by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
