Sentence examples for were set upon from inspiring English sources

But these new tales were set upon the "new Mars", the real Mars, Mariner's Mars.

(Robert McCartney and his friend Brendan Devine were set upon by nine).

Amid the chaos, some soldiers were set upon, beaten and killed by angry citizens.

They were set upon a mound of haricots verts tossed with halved tear-drop tomatoes.

Picture hats were set upon pompadour coiffures, affixed with hat pins.

In Bulgaria, he and his friends were set upon by police dogs.

And they were set upon by six young men who shouted anti-gay slurs at them.

Johnson Bodro, 28, recalled fleeing as fellow Liberians were set upon and killed by a local mob.

There, amid the rubble, he and three other journalists were set upon by an enraged mob and stoned to death.

They found themselves trapped and were set upon by armed thugs wielding swords, knives and hurling rocks and molotov cocktails.

Unarmed men and women on a highway were set upon by uniformed men wearing gas masks and riding horses.