Example Sentences

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O’Hara said he believed there was a broom and snow shovel at the scene of the shooting and that at least one person might have assaulted federal law-enforcement officers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Attorney General Merrick Garland asked Wednesday for the public’s help in identifying hundreds of suspects who were photographed but haven’t been arrested, including about 250 who are believed to have assaulted police officers.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2022

Remember that in nondiabetic people, Mallone found T cells that could have assaulted beta cells, but they held their fire.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2021

Trump isn’t the only prominent man on the list of men who Carroll alleges have assaulted her.

From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2019

The squire waxed very wroth, and would have assaulted Mat bodily had not Soges whispered some more sagacious counsels in his ear.

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold