Example Sentences

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Blake said Webster acted “objectively reasonably” when he tried to arrest and chased after Black, suspecting he was assaulting the boy.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2022

On Feb. 3, 1945, Royster was seriously wounded, receiving several gunshot wounds as his unit was assaulting a heavily defended village in Germany, near the Belgian border.

From Washington Times • Aug. 26, 2017

“Mr. Bonds had a completely paranoid, distorted thought that whole night that everybody was assaulting him,” Shapiro said.

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2017

Kiritsis heard one broad cast report and jumped to the conclusion that a bomb squad was assaulting his apartment at that moment.

From Time Magazine Archive

In France, some fifty years earlier, the destructive theorist had swept all before him; in England, while he was assaulting with effect the entrenchments of Conservatism, he was taken in flank by the moderate reformers.

From Studies in Literature and History by Miller, John O.