assail
verb (used with object)
to attack vigorously or violently; assault.
are assailing
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present progressiveof assail.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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
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
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
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
Now, all sorts of things are assailing me; not only the horror that Dorothy should know, but the horror of having done such things.
From Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford
