was assailing
- past progressive of assail.
Example Sentences
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Other correspondents asked Trump why he was assailing a reporter during a national crisis.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 21, 2020
Omalu said the proposition that Clark was assailing the officers, meaning he was facing them, is “inconsistent with the prevailing forensic evidence.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 1, 2018
McGovern was assailing the President on ethics and trying to get some traction on a little-known scandal called Watergate.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was assailing her in her tenderest point.
From Phoebe, Junior by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
Here she was, assailing me, hammer and tongs, so far as I could see, for absolutely nothing.
From The Beetle by Marsh, Richard
