Example Sentences

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Since the end of 2017, Messrs. Mosley and Coe have been assailing some of Earth’s most beloved musical acts in their podcast, “Your Favorite Band Sucks.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 25, 2018

Theorists have been assailing the effects of the welfare state for a decade.

From Time Magazine Archive

May I hope that I have measurably succeeded in demonstrating that the allegations with which the propagandists of disunion have been assailing the public mind are without foundation in fact.

From Right Above Race by Kahn, Otto Hermann

He seems to think that we have been assailing it.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron