Definition: 1. Close fighting during the culmination of a military attack. 2. The crime of attacking sb physically. 3. The act of attacking a building, an area, etc. in order to take control of it. 4. Attack in speech or writing.
Use 'assault' in a sentence:
1. Assault carries a maximum penalty of seven years' imprisonment.
2. Four women have been sexually assaulted in the area recently.
3. Three people died during an assault on the mountain.
4. Three people died during an assault on the mountain (= while trying to climb it) .
5. He has been charged with assaulting a police officer.
6. He launched into a verbal assault on tabloid journalism.
7. The suggested closures came under assault from all parties.
8. Both men were charged with assault.
9. The trainees were put through an assault course.
10. The government has mounted a new assault on unemployment.
11. U.S. forces are poised for a massive air, land, and sea assault.
12. The attack is one of a series of savage sexual assaults on women in the university area.
13. The organizers of the march were charged with assault and riotous assembly.
14. He leveled a verbal assault against his Democratic opponents.
15. They took him to the station and booked him for assault with a deadly weapon.
16. A third brigade is at sea, ready for an amphibious assault.
17. He was brutally assaulted.
18. He was acquitted on charges of assault with a deadly weapon.
19. The elderly live in fear of assault and murder.
20. At the police station, I was charged with assault.
21. The reputation of the navigator is under assault from historical revisionists.
22. A large percentage of these forces had been flattened by the assault.
23. The 5th Army operating out of the swamps of the Pripet had a firm base for the assault.
24. He was jailed for aggravated assault.
25. The government has mounted a new assault on unemployment (= in order to reduce it) .
26. Most US soldiers welcomed the ground assault when the order was finally given.
27. He was convicted of assaulting a police officer but he got off with a light sentence.
28. The family tried to bring a private prosecution against him for assault.
29. A valiant assault force does not fear a strong fortress.
30. The assault element, led by Captain Ramirez, opened up from their right flank.
31. The rebels are poised for a new assault on the government garrisons.
32. The gang assaulted him with iron bars.
33. In mitigation, the defence lawyer said his client was seriously depressed at the time of the assault.
34. Loud rock music assaulted our ears.
35. He dodged the enemy's assault and threw him to the ground.
36. He broke down under cross-examination and admitted his part in the assault.
37. John's soldiers were readying themselves for the final assault.
38. The host grabbed the bills and initiated a verbal assault upon the cabby, calling him a worthless parasite and a disgrace to their country for trying to overcharge visitors.
39. The former world heavyweight champion was released on Monday after four months behind bars for assault in the wake of a traffic accident last August.
40. The army renewed its assault on the capital.
41. A group of 80 attackers launched an all-out assault just before dawn.
42. Police were shocked by the viciousness of the assault.
43. I have consulted an attorney who will file criminal charges as well as a civil lawsuit grounded in assault and battery.
44. Mere words, unaccompanied by any violence, cannot amount to an assault.
45. Italian artist Bolla has transformed them into something a bit more sinister—macabre tokens of death that include an AK-47 assault rifle and human remains.
46. She may have been sexually assaulted by her killer.
47. On the flip side, companies like Virgin Galactic are plotting a bottom-up assault on the space dream by making it a reality to the public.
48. She appeared in court on charges of kidnapping and assault.
49. An assault on the capital was launched in the early hours of the morning.
50. The paper's assault on the president was totally unjustified.
51. US forces are poised for a massive air, land and sea assault.
52. I naturally started to don my "kill the technician" armor, preparing for a loud but unintelligible assault on the jerk.
53. Military leaders are not expecting a frontal assault by the rebels.
54. He was charged with indecently assaulting five women.
55. A significant number of indecent assaults on women go unreported.
56. How would all those theories hold up under the pressure of a zombie assault?
