Example Sentences

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With secondary trauma, a lot of people don’t recognize that the things assaulting them from the media are assaulting their own ability to cope.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2022

They celebrate earth colors in a time when we are assaulting the earth more than ever in human history.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2018

In Syria, the U.S.-led coalition is backing an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias in the north which are assaulting the jihadist group's former de facto capital of Raqqa.

From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2017

Along with the city's growing air-and water-pollution problems, he says, "the city noises are assaulting our sanity."

From Time Magazine Archive

They are assaulting tanks, which a feeble internal gesture sets in motion, ready for the rolling rush of their gigantic knee-caps.

From Light by Wray, Fitzwater