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assail - use in sentences
Object
- eye: Shee will not stay the siege of louing tearmes, Nor bid th ' encounter of assailing eyes.
- ear: Yet still the English fans believed that all would come right; yelling, screaming, wave upon wave of sound assailing the ears.
- Iranian: Days after Rice unveiled the new U.S. approach, Rumsfeld assailed the Iranians as " one of the leading terrorist nations of the world.
- force: Their effect may have been to dissipate the potential assailing force of breaking waves and thus slowly decelerate coastline recession rates.
- man: But above all it was proved by His conquest over all the devils and everything that assails man.
- nostril: The unique Indian aroma assails unwary nostrils even before the plane touches down at the airport.
Preposition: on
- side: Our wonderful game is assailed on all sides by the very many different things that are available for people to do with their time.
Subject
- doubt: I think that most of us are at various times assailed by doubts.
- temptation: Nor would we put them into schools where they would learn habits or be assailed by dangerous temptations.
- smell: And when we entered in, we were assailed by a pungent smell.
Modifying Another Word
- suddenly: A wave of dizziness suddenly assailed me and I sat down suddenly.
- again: The campaign took place in the depths of winter and we were assailed again and again by storms of snow and ice.
- not: The dragoons did not assail the right wing till the retreat had commenced.
- continually: Deliver me from the temptations which continually assail me.
- immediately: Any interpretation, however, that suggests itself is immediately assailed by doubts and equally unfounded alternatives.
- first: But it was from a different quarter that peril first assailed the Caliphate.
Preposition: from
- side: Our world today can seem just like Babylon, with God's people being assailed from all sides.
Preposition: by
- doubt: I think that most of us are at various times assailed by doubts.
- temptation: Nor would we put them into schools where they would learn habits or be assailed by dangerous temptations.
- smell: And when we entered in, we were assailed by a pungent smell.
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