6 sentences with 'assault'
Example sentences and phrases with the word assault and other words derived from it.
• « In a poorly planned assault on the Gallipoli peninsula near Constantinople, hundreds of thousands of British imperial troops (including tens of thousands of Australians and New Zealanders recruited to fight for "their" empire from half a world away) were shot down by Turkish machine guns. »
• « In 1909, F.T. Marinetti, the founder of the Futurist movement, wrote the Futurist Manifesto. In it he said that Futurists wanted to "sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and recklessness", and that "poetry must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown". »
• « When the US government learned of the Soviet missiles, serious consideration was given to launching a full-scale assault on Cuba, something that could have led directly to nuclear war. »
• « Laws regarding both sexual assault and domestic violence were often strengthened and more rigorously enforced. »
• « In November 1995, following an attack on his wife, he was convicted of assault and sentenced to 18 months' probation. »
• « When I was still a minor, police caught him making phone calls threatening local women with sexual assault. »