Sentence examples for they set upon from inspiring English sources

They set upon the women with horsewhips.

They set upon one boy accused of stealing, shoving and slapping him.

They set upon both students and lecturers with long wooden batons.

Hope and Richards wielded daggers over their heads and howled as they set upon the helpless A-level student.

They set upon the victim in a frenzy, beating him, stomping him, striking him in the face with a bottle and, finally, taking his Timberland boots, the police said.

That's what politicians should be asking us to envisage when they set upon this bugbear with their big sticks: people on very low incomes earning a very small amount extra and not declaring it.

They were immediately set upon by the activists, some wielding axes, knives, iron bars and clubs, he said.

When cows died, they were immediately set upon by flocks of vultures that left behind skin for leather merchants and bones for bone collectors.

Nobody – bar maybe Charles Bronson – likes being set upon by police.

When they were done, they were set upon by ski patrolmen on snowmobiles, who informed them that the patrol was bombing the chute that morning, to make it slide, and that Lowe and Mclean were lucky not to have been blown to pieces by a Howitzer shell.

In mid-May, Mr Zahrani would have heard of the "suicide attempt" that had been used to lure guards to a cell where, as they slipped on a floor slicked with excrement and soap, they were set upon by prisoners.He himself, according to his family, was not the least suicidal.