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Sentence Examples She was suddenly assailed by a stomach churning feeling of homesickness, a longing for something familiar. That statement assailed his position against abortion, contraception, sterilization, women's rights, divorce, stem cell research and gay rights. Critics assailed the commission, as well as a number of state and local organizations, for commercializing centennial activities. The book sold well and rapidly became fashionable, but was assailed in various critical pamphlets for length, tedium, and doubtful morality. He started to get up and groaned aloud as all sorts of aches and pains assailed him. The retrenchment of gas imports has assailed the country's northern mining district. Instantly, Wendy's eyes watered as the ultrasonic whine assailed her sensitive ears. Back in the Westminster bubble he is assailed by advice from all sides on how to react to the vicious swathe of cuts. The stench of waste and excrement fermenting in the sewers assailed his scent. He, for me, has always been funniest playing the straight dope, the poor schmuck who is constantly assailed by ludicrous circumstances. We're now being assailed with everything from a sharemarket crash to an early election. The truth is, when I serve my homemade carrot cake, I'm assailed by recipe requests. The French were badly beaten and when they sought shelter were assailed by fireships and boarding parties. And such, I'm afraid, are the daily nonsenses with which writers are assailed by publishers. One moment I was peacefully watching TV and the next was assailed by a high volume string of expletives issuing from the kitchen. Taunted by the Prime Minister on the one hand, and assailed by the left of his own party on the other, he has so far kept his own counsel. This is a great pity because if he had, we might have been spared the regrettable sight that assailed us earlier in the week. We are daily assailed by the beguiling double-think of public opinion formers. Suddenly, unwanted mental images assailed her, forcing her to swallow hard and blink to keep from reacting. But it is symptomatic of wider troubles, in which the Prime Minister seems to be assailed in every direction he turns. Show More Sentences I was assailed by three Cossacks, and while keeping them at bay with my lance, a fourth came up to their assistance. Whatever the cause, the patient is assailed by the terrifying feeling of being out of control. New emotions assailed her so strongly she dropped to her knees with a moan. Stepping out of the wooden portals, your nostrils are assailed by the pungent smell of leaf-wrapped dosai. Ringing bells, whirring motors and flickering lights assailed the senses as one entered the darkened gallery from the street. As I visited old haunts I was once again assailed by familiar feelings of disgust. The energetic outsiders were true-blue conservatives who assailed the old guard and occasionally defeated their incumbents in primaries or as third-party challengers. It was an astoundingly small number of defenders, considering that they were assailed by nearly 4,000 French and American soldiers. Add to that editorial advertising, plugs for products in articles in publications of all kinds, and you know you are being assailed from all sides. The dignity of academic people and their universities and polytechnics has been assailed from without by government and from within by the corrosion of bureaucracy. The current water treatment plant has become overloaded with thousands visitors being assailed by an unpleasant pong when they visit the area in the summer months. From the very beginning, the far right assailed this president with calumnious attacks. Leaving the dining room, the mirthful and painful souvenirs of the past assailed my thoughts. This was a particularly risky means of concluding a siege as the attackers using ladders would be continually assailed from above on their climb up the walls. They spread hatred for us with a psychotic mass murderer and then they assailed the capital and when we moved to accost them they mysteriously withdrew. As the old patterns die in their minds and the new ones begin to take shape, people are assailed by self-doubt and misgivings about their leaders. Critics have assailed the lack of political leadership in all this. It finds itself assailed by a pretender to the throne in the shape of Gossip Girl star Blake Lively's Preserve. Following the publication of 'Lycra Louts', Kate was assailed by angry emailing activists. What we have developed, we believe, is a major breakthrough, and we've been assailed by Health Canada. Show More Sentences My friend has assailed the NDP's economic policies as outdated and unrealistic. How can there be such a fuss about this, when we are assailed by more immediate problems? On 4 July 2005, 50 persons were reported to have assailed the Embassy and barricaded the Embassy staff in the office. For years, US policy makers have been assailed for failing to uphold the spirit of human rights provisions contained in arms export laws. Then piling up all the rest of the furniture, the mattresses, palliasses and chairs, he stopped up the windows as one does when assailed by an enemy. Within an hour of hearing this news I was assailed by the first of countless journalists and by next morning my son's death was in every paper in the most lurid of terms. Huey assailed Hahn for supporting a program that used taxpayer money to pay former gang members to work with at-risk youth. When I got out of the car I was assailed by another of the noxious stinks that Lufkin is distinguished for. The trouble with it is that if it goes unrepaired then the people who are assailed in this way and their families have to live with that burden if some of the mud sticks. We were daily faced by the tragedies of the depression: our unemployed, the suffering poor, the perils which assailed business of all sorts, the plight of agriculture. During the years leading up to the rebellion, Mackenzie, in his Colonial Advocate, promoted American democratic ideals and assailed the hierarchical nature of Upper Canadian society. The United Kingdom is also regularly assailed by ethical questions concerning its database of DNA fingerprints from 4.5 million individuals involved in major or minor crime. It has also been assailed as unfair by counsel representing employees, who claim it ignores the distinct purposes of notice and disability payments, as outlined by the Court in McKay. In Buddhist mythology, Gautama Buddha was assailed by the demon Mara when meditating under the sacred Bo tree. Hobbes opposed the existing academic arrangements, and assailed the system of the original universities in Leviathan. This victory of the mind must be won over and over again, even as we are assailed by the magnitude and range of challenges linked to accelerating globalization. Last week, talking to the culture, media and sport select committee about the future of the BBC, Hall was assailed by the honourable member for Shipley, Philip Davies. It was one that took delight in confounding both the purists and the critics who continually assailed the band's motives and creativity even as their fan base expanded and their status soared. Professing the same vows and promoting the same charism did not shield some religious communities from the atrocious strife and divisive sentiments that assailed the rest of the Kenyan society. A fierce pamphlet war also resulted, in which Paine was defended and assailed in dozens of works. Show More Sentences Godwin had come to hear Paine, but Wollstonecraft assailed him all night long, disagreeing with him on nearly every subject. Margaret Sphery's shrill birdcalls, whistles, and hoots assailed us from a proximitous room. He openly assailed the authority of Aristotle in theology, on whom the sententiarists mainly relied. This short story by Chekhov is about an old actor, abandoned to his intemperance, in the seedy solitude of a deserted theatre, and who, assailed by the racket of his memories, dissects his personal and artistic past. They were assailed by doubts and fear of the unknown, melancholy and sadness. They became seasick, and worried about dying from illness or being shipwrecked. Meanwhile, back in the world of Haye, we are assailed by the subtlety of his strategy to reduce the highly educated Klitschko to a gibbering state of dysfunction. Our ears are assailed by ill-educated people who refuse to learn, by graceless people who demand to be fed and then bite the hand that feeds them, and by fanatical people with fixed ideas. Everyone is entitled to their theory as to what went wrong: mine is that from last week's Question Time debate in Leeds, where Ed Miliband was assailed about Labour's alleged overspending, the die was cast. I therefore intended to vote for the motion but I was assailed by a doubt. Critics assailed brass hats for their stupidity, callousness, and chateau generalship. Nor can they themselves be totally free of the doubts that assailed not a few on both sides: is this agreement a genuine commitment or a tactic in a continuing struggle? As we understand it, the Superintendent has not directly assailed IOL's conduct with respect to post-retirement benefits in this case, and we certainly do not purport to adjudicate or even to comment upon it. Rapper Passi was bang on time. As his BMW slid into the UNESCO car park at 8.30pm, Passi was immediately assailed by a crowd of young fans, begging for autographs, acknowledgement or a bit of general advice. It reached its peak when it assailed logic and mathematics, bringing its victims not only to say, but actually to believe, that two plus two equals five. Our ears are assailed every day by hundreds of talkers on radio and television, and every time we blink our eyes they open upon a new advertisement. Suddenly, in the realm of international relations dominated by diplomacy and multilingualism, I was assailed by the image of conference interpreters in revolt against the conventional views on secrecy. Berouged and beribboned aristocrats were assailed on these grounds as much as unreproductive ecclesiastics who spent their time consorting with females. Examples from Classical Literature Our ears are first assailed by a few shrill, currish barks at intervals, like the outpost firing of skirmishing parties. When desire of news assailed her, she could easily conceal her personal resentments, cannily sacrificing small issues to great. Then, suddenly, Ashe was assailed by an inner laughter, hollow and discomfortable. A third stoker was providently enraged at the scene, and assailed the second stoker. Sir Volmor came home from the red field of strife, Then tidings assailed him, with dolour so rife. Thus doubly assailed they soon gave way, and the stream of new-comers rushed in, torches and flambeaux illuminating the scene. A damp, foetid smell, suggestive of the rottenness of decay, assailed my nostrils and made me sneeze. Returning from a visit at a late hour, by a lonely road, he was suddenly assailed by a powerful ruffian who tried to garrot him. He assisted at the quasi-fall of Voltaire when assailed by Geoffroy, the continuator of Freton. Legally your actions cannot be assailed, but morally they should ostracize you from decent society. The most hopeless of humours assailed him, and he yielded to it without a struggle. A man's individuality, his whole character, is assailed and suborned on every side. So he assailed the tribe of abs and Adnan, and his people attacked behind him like a cloud when it pours forth water and rains. The focus of the constitutional movement, she was savagely assailed by the absolutists and their French allies. There he was assailed by Mordred's friends, and slain with many of his lords. Here he was assailed by MRA the Tempter who offered him universal empire but in vain. Discouraged by this defeat, the Mahometans assailed our twelve foists with all their force, and carried them away. Faithful had been assailed by 'wanton,' and had been obliged to fly from her. The mingling of Aristotelianism and religion in the scholastic theology Luther had assailed. He had coasted up the Windward Islands, touching here and there, and assailed continually by stories of villainy and outrage. Show More Sentences But in the midst of his brooding, Teppich and the fat Sturgeon assailed the nunnery gate with pot-valiant blows and shouts. Hence the indifferentist and pantheist was assailed from the most diverse sides. Do as did my daughter Lois when they assailed her first little novel with sugar-plum praise. He said Kuwait's espousal of these and other similar values had enabled it to protect the public from being assailed by extremism and terrorism. But Mahtoree had, as it would seem in this particular undervalued the acuteness of the man he had assailed. Cramps assailed him and he clamped his jaws against the desire to retch. A more hideous aggregation of monsters had never before assailed my vision. When he reached Ashland he was assailed by the enemy in force. But as they were leaving the byre fresh doubts assailed her. During the festivities, Euridice, walking abroad with her friends, the nymphs, is assailed by the jealous Aristaeus. The ever recurrent fever of expectancy assailed Martin as he took the bundle of long envelopes. He makes battle if assailed, and often, if pressed by hunger, is the assailant. It was only one phase of the multitudinous emotions which had assailed her. No hour of my stay in fact was so assailed with apprehensions as that of my coming down to learn that the carriage containing Mrs. By this he felt himself so inspired that he would not have flinched if all the carriers in the world had assailed him. But among the conflicting sensations which assailed her, there was neither shame nor remorse. If discomforting forces assailed the republic, they must be crushed. Sontag was now for the first time assailed by the voice of calumny. The odor that assailed his nostrils reassured him suffocatingly. No doubt, no fear assailed him all was peace and trustfulness. Show More Sentences Others assailed particular vocations, as that of the lawyer, that of the merchant, of the manufacturer, of the clergyman, of the scholar. These were some of the doubts with which the police officer was assailed. A sudden doubt had just assailed me as to my presentability. I have assailed thy resolution in vain, and mine own is fixed as the adamantine decrees of fate. I was in the very first act of detailing an Expedition to succor him, when the cord was assailed with a series of such frantic jerks that I could hardly keep hold of it. Low growls and angry snarls assailed our ears on every side as we hastened on and one by one the ferocious creatures answered the call of their mistress. Suddenly his vision was assailed by the sight of a rose-colored parasol gayly unfurled in a shop window, signaling the passer-by and setting him to dream of summer sunshine. In truth, it was raining cats and dogs, such belligerent shower all unprovoked by him who had picked no quarrels nor even been aware of his enemies until they assailed him. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of assailed? Words that rhyme with assailed What is the adjective for assailed? What is the noun for assailed? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words assailants Assailant assailant assailable assail as said by assailing assailment assails Assam Assamese assange 8-letter Words Starting With a as ass assa assai assail assaile