attack - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • launch: Yes, Clinton launched a cruise missile attack on the mountains of Afghanistan.
  • suffer: She said, " Every two minutes someone in the UK will suffer a heart attack, with only half of them surviving.
  • mount: It was 13 minutes before Cardiff mounted a serious attack but Jason Koumas ' corner flew across goal without anyone getting the final touch.
  • prevent: The state, presumably secure in its own legitimacy, has the duty to prevent attacks on its citizens for any reason.
  • survive: He survived the attack and eventually became a successful businessman.

Subject

  • mob: Forced to leave country after being attacked by mobs in street July 1993 Unscom prevented from installing monitoring cameras at two missile test stands.

Adjective modifier

  • terrorist: I write to comment on the recent terrorist attacks on London.
  • racist: In 1991 he led his first successful civil action against the police for a racist attack.
  • violent: Poetry must be conceived as a violent attack on unknown forces, to reduce and prostrate them before man.
  • vicious: Gwah screwing Drusifer out of his title to Matty D, then some vicious attacks followed from Drusifer.
  • unprovoked: But an entirely unprovoked attack by Al-Qaeda on the US.

Modifies a noun

  • helicopter: The primary mission of attack helicopter units is to destroy armor and mechanized forces.

Noun used with modifier

  • panic: I felt as if all the panic attacks were holding up my progress.
  • heart: A person having a heart attack will usually complain of a tight pain in the chest.
  • arson: The students will tour shools in West Yorkshire from December 3-14, targeting areas prone to arson attacks.
  • bomb: While the number of Americans killed in action per month has declined slightly bomb attacks are now the largest killer of American troops.
  • terror: The Birmingham Post - Monday 24th September 2001 Article regarding a student at Aston being questioned in connection with the terror attacks in America.
  • asthma: That same year, his father - who had been separated from his mother - died from a massive asthma attack.

Preposition: by

  • mob: Forced to leave country after being attacked by mobs in street July 1993 Unscom prevented from installing monitoring cameras at two missile test stands.

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