How to Use assail in a Sentence

assail

verb
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  • But critics from the right and the left have assailed it.
    — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
  • If the Fed doesn’t move rapidly to cut rates, Trump will assail him.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 8 June 2019
  • The notes that come out of his career never assail your ears; the caress them.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Dazed and cut off from the ranks behind them, the men at the front were promptly assailed by another gang barrelling down to the beach.
    — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
  • And Trump on Tuesday night publicly assailed the judge handling Stone's case.
    — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 12 Feb. 2020
  • And many activists assail the firm for owning huge stakes in oil and gas companies.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The pregnancy was planned, but instead of being pleased, doubts and fears assailed me.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
  • From the pandemic to the 2020 Beirut blast, Lebanon has been assailed by a number of crises that have left its economy in ruins.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 12 May 2023
  • Yet the candidates have spent much of their time assailing each other.
    — Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2018
  • Those who like to assail corporate owners that don’t have the backs of their journalists just got a fresh and compelling case in point.
    — Washington Post, 9 May 2022
  • That helps when defending a city like Kyiv, which has been assailed by Russian drones and missiles approaching from the north, east, and south.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2023
  • Democrats did not hold back from assailing Trump's character over the remark.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2019
  • In his first address since the weekend’s events, Putin assailed those responsible for the revolt.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 27 June 2023
  • But voting rights have been assailed ever since, Foner said.
    — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2020
  • And the whirr of electric motors doesn’t assail your ears like the cacophony of combustion.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Trump and allies have continued to assail Pence for his refusal to toss out electoral votes that favored Biden.
    — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Critics have long assailed the Supreme Court’s practices on this issue as both opaque and inconsistent.
    — Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023
  • Still, the pause in fighting has eased some of the criticism Mr. Biden has taken from the left wing of his party, which has assailed him for, in their view, supporting Israel too much.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Opponents of the plan continue to assail its fairness and the potential costs.
    — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2022
  • And the Republicans who assailed it have so far been unable to come up with an alternative.
    — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
  • While the industry has often had an ally in the IRS, consumer advocates have assailed the program.
    — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Trump did not hesitate to use the country's birthday as an occasion to assail segments of the country that do not support him.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2020
  • This is the cost of accepting the unacceptable: an even weaker foundation that the next disease will assail.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Trump has been assailing McCain without any prompting by the media.
    — Calvin Woodward, The Seattle Times, 25 Mar. 2019
  • Critics have assailed the limits on OSHA’s power to crack down on dangerous workplaces for years.
    — Christopher Leonard, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2019
  • In remarks Monday, Biden struck his most populist tone yet in assailing firms for not lowering prices even as supply chains have healed.
    — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • And those non-Tesla providers have often been assailed with criticism over balky or broken chargers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Apr. 2023
  • When a bipartisan deal emerged in the Senate, in February, Trump assailed it anyway.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2024
  • On the far right, despite taking credit for fossil-fuel investments in their states, Republicans have assailed the act as the Green New Deal.
    — Joe Manchin, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2023
  • She is widely blamed for the city’s high crime and low morale, and is frequently assailed for what critics call her imperious tendencies.
    — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2023

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