Sentence examples for were assailed from inspiring English sources

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were assailed

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To attack violently using words or force.

  • Muggers assailed them as they entered an alley.

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Companies were assailed by a host of lawsuits.

Hours went by as we were assailed by one photo opportunity after another.

I was a delicate flower whose hyper-refined sensibilities were assailed by the crude world!

Mr. Yastrzhembsky's comments were assailed by Gennadi A. Zyuganov, the Communist party leader, who urged caution.

His editor William Shawn and the New Yorker as an institution were assailed by other newspapers.

Not long ago companies with cash piles were assailed by corporate activists to return money to shareholders.

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That's how badly the doubts were assailing me.

Republicans on the committee were assailing both deficits and the spending proposals.

I am assailed by the Russian media.

Those who cut waste are assailed for lacking compassion.

But even here he is assailed by uncertainty.

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