Sentence examples for attacks back from inspiring English sources

The phrase "attacks back" is not standard in written English and may sound awkward.
It can be used in contexts where someone or something retaliates after being attacked, but it is more common to use "counterattacks" or "retaliates."
Example: "After being provoked, the team quickly attacks back, surprising their opponents."
Alternatives: "retaliates" or "counterattacks."

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He doesn't take any of the shots against him personally and he never attacks back personally".

Over the next several months, they traced more than 90 different malware attacks back to those servers.

But Mr. Baker said victims were able to trace the attacks back to state-affiliated groups in "two out of three cases".

A report by Mandiant, a computer security firm, tying hundreds of attacks back to one Chinese military unit, made the issue even harder to ignore.

Now 33, Jaeger was finally forced to stop performing with his band because he was experiencing terrible panic attacks, back there behind the drums.

A new advertising campaign for Ikea shows gangs of evil gnomes menacing a couple in the couple's garden, whereupon the couple attacks back, drowning the gnomes, hurling them against a fence and smashing them to bits.

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Jihad is when you are attacked, you attack back.

He has turned the "insider" attack back on Mr. Young.

In politics, sometimes attacking your opponent can give them an opening to attack back.

Landon Donovan wasn't available against Seattle, which pushed the Galaxy attack back into the midfield.

"We do not want war, but if they attack again we want the government to attack back," he said.

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