Sentences with 'assaults'
Example sentences and phrases with the word assaults and other words derived from it.
• « For example: the common cold virus assaults cells, induces them to make new viruses, and then kills them, when the new viruses burst the cell membranes to get out. »
• « The early assaults on Jews and Muslims had already driven out the most dynamic economic elements in Spain, and the attack on the Moriscos and conversos (descendants of Muslims and Jews who had converted to Catholicism) drove many of them away as well. »
• « At the Battle of Bunker Hill on 17 June, the British launched three assaults on the hills, gaining control only after the rebels ran out of ammunition. »
• « In the 1780s, a series of court decisions undermined slavery in Massachusetts when several slaves, alleging assaults by their masters, successfully petitioned the courts for their freedom. These individuals refused to be treated as slaves after the American Revolution. »