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How to use assailant in a sentence

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It also appears the assailant was wearing a jacket the night of the assault.
It soon became obvious to my assailant that this was no posing pouch that I was wearing.
Upon his return, he is stunned to find Emily fatally wounded by an unknown assailant.
The assailant first rifled the till but there was nothing in it, so he took the collecting box and the manageress's handbag.
It had fallen from its chain that hung around her neck as her assailant lashed out against her in a maddened frenzy.
The family dog, an American pit bull, was shot and killed in the attack after it jumped up and bit the assailant on the arm.
The victim was unable to give many details about her assailant because the attack was over in seconds.
The assailant was wearing a hooded cloak and the setting sun had lengthened the shadow covering his face.
One assailant grabbed him and got him in a headlock while an accomplice pulled the wallet out of his trouser pocket.
With a quick yank, he struggled to get the gun out but proceeded to hit his assailant alongside the head with it still in the holster.
Bepe's alleged assailant has since gone into hiding, but police said they knew who they were looking for and expected to make an arrest soon.
His unknown assailant had taken him down with superb speed and incredible timing.
A hand grabbed his arm and he shook it loose, only turning to face his assailant when he heard a very definite female grunt.
The man on the ground got back up surprised, when he saw no assailant he was stupefied for words.
At the request of Mr Leesong trespass orders have been served on the assailant and her accomplice.
As I physically wrenched her assailant away from her, my sign was also grabbed and ripped up.
It was not known if the governor was wounded by gunfire from the assailant or from shots fired afterward.
The next edition of the paper described the assailant as five ten, two hundred pounds, heavy set, stocky.
Both arms rested slackly at her sides, eyes widened, and she could just barely make out the outline of her assailant.
He sheathed his sword quickly, bringing his pistols out and unleashing a hail of bullets at his assailant.
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She grasped the arm of her assailant and struggled with all her might, but to no purpose.
The only doubt I have is whether the fisherman correctly described his assailant as an octopus, and whether it was not a calamary.
He parried the blow on his sabre, and with the flat of it knocked his assailant senseless.
The jaguar, with his pliable paws and sharp subtle claws, is to them a more dreaded assailant than the crocodile or caiman.
He did not know why she told him all that, and he could not learn from her anything about his assailant.
The next minute he was pinned, handcuffed, and in a straitjacket, after crippling one assailant with a kick on the knee.
One of our soldiers saw the situation, and ran and drove his sword bayonet through this second assailant.
It is not strange that when harpooned it should retaliate by attacking its assailant.
Nor are there wanting other motions of the whale in his general body, full of strangeness, and unaccountable to his most experienced assailant.
They saw the eyes of the Hun bulge in horror as he vainly struck with his futile hands against the massive chest and head of his assailant.
He makes battle if assailed, and often, if pressed by hunger, is the assailant.
I refer to the fellow Kelly, Mr. Smith's self-confessed assailant.
He could not even guess at his assailant, much less reach him.
The rotten doors seemed quite unable to resist an assailant.
A 32-year-old Japanese woman has been assaulted by a purse snatcher near a shopping center in Honolulu but the assailant was quickly arrested, local authorities said Tuesday.
The base and nasty desire to vent that spite on its assailant rankles perhaps even more nastily in it than in l'homme de la nature et de la verite.
He thrust out his hand and held his assailant away at arm's length.
A more remarkable face in its quiet, resolute, and guarded struggle with an unseen assailant, was not to be beheld in all the wide dominions of sleep, that night.
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