The phrase "verbal onslaught" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
This phrase is used to describe a situation where someone is verbally attacking or criticizing someone else. For example, "The lawyer unleashed a verbal onslaught against his opponent’s testimony."
The verbal onslaught seemed aimed at deflecting attention from those problems.
She unleashed her rap skills with a verbal onslaught on lawyers in "Mystery of Iniquity".
Responding to this verbal onslaught, General Wiranto refused to resign until he could speak directly with the president.
At the recent shareholders' meeting he faced a verbal onslaught from shareholders including Muriel Conway, who spent 25 years designing womenswear for M&S until the late 1990s.
Some critics, otherwise beguiled by the mesmeric Kurt Weill score and the charisma of the actors, were upset by the verbal onslaught.
The Friars Club was roasting Billy Crystal and, because I'd written a few jokes for this verbal onslaught, I was in the ballroom of the New York Hilton that afternoon.
Bulgaria's Ataka lives up to its name with verbal onslaughts against the country's Turks, and has taken 10% of the vote since 2005.
Despite the forced resignation of the chief justice in March, and verbal onslaughts on the judges delivered by the justice minister, the judiciary is standing up admirably to Mr Mugabe's bullying.
A colleague of mine refers to such unrestrained verbal onslaughts as "assault by e-mail".
The verbal and visual onslaught, especially experienced by Muslims who frequent the Internet, hardly ever gets reported in mass media.
We all know it's a challenged world out there, but there is no spiritual value in the verbal and visual onslaught of the most hateful and negative news stories.
