How to Use assail in a Sentence

assail

verb

• Democrats have assailed the House bill as a tax-cut plan for the wealthy.
  — Laura Litvan, Bloomberg.com, 31 May 2017
• But critics from the right and the left have assailed it.
  — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• If the Fed doesn’t move rapidly to cut rates, Trump will assail him.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 8 June 2019
• The notes that come out of his career never assail your ears; the caress them.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• Cup and straw both had to be clean to assure no germs would assail the children (or the able-bodied men).
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 21 June 2018
• More often than not weakness assailed him, and he was forced to turn back.
  — Longreads, 13 July 2017
• Dazed and cut off from the ranks behind them, the men at the front were promptly assailed by another gang barrelling down to the beach.
  — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
• The pulse of that year’s song of the summer will course its way to you as quickly as the humidity assails those of us in the swampy dredges of New York.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 29 May 2018
• The change came after Trump assailed the judge’s daughter and made false claims about her on social media.
  — Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 6 May 2024
• And Trump on Tuesday night publicly assailed the judge handling Stone's case.
  — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 12 Feb. 2020
• And many activists assail the firm for owning huge stakes in oil and gas companies.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Dec. 2020
• The pregnancy was planned, but instead of being pleased, doubts and fears assailed me.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
• Davis was assailed online in what became one of the few controversies of the games.
  — Beth Harris, Houston Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2018
• Many assailed the idea of such massive state intervention and the idea was quickly squashed.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• From the pandemic to the 2020 Beirut blast, Lebanon has been assailed by a number of crises that have left its economy in ruins.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 12 May 2023
• Yet the candidates have spent much of their time assailing each other.
  — Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2018
• Those who like to assail corporate owners that don’t have the backs of their journalists just got a fresh and compelling case in point.
  — Washington Post, 9 May 2022
• That helps when defending a city like Kyiv, which has been assailed by Russian drones and missiles approaching from the north, east, and south.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2023
• Once on stage, Trump repeatedly praised Heller and assailed Rosen.
  — Philip Rucker, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2018
• Democrats did not hold back from assailing Trump's character over the remark.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2019
• If Democrats do take the House, their leaders will be under tremendous pressure to assail and obstruct Trump at every turn.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 19 July 2018
• In his first address since the weekend’s events, Putin assailed those responsible for the revolt.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 27 June 2023
• But voting rights have been assailed ever since, Foner said.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2020
• And the whirr of electric motors doesn’t assail your ears like the cacophony of combustion.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2022
• Trump and allies have continued to assail Pence for his refusal to toss out electoral votes that favored Biden.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2023
• On this front, the student activists and academics whom conservatives routinely assail are way ahead of Brooks and the rest.
  — Osita Nwanevu, Slate Magazine, 13 July 2017
• Critics have long assailed the Supreme Court’s practices on this issue as both opaque and inconsistent.
  — Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023
• Still, the pause in fighting has eased some of the criticism Mr. Biden has taken from the left wing of his party, which has assailed him for, in their view, supporting Israel too much.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
• Doing so will sour voters on him far more than assailing Trump for cruelty or calling out lies.
  — Barry M. Mitnick / Made By History, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024
• The timing was assailed by Trump’s critics, who say the American public deserved to know the outcome of the D.C. trial before voting for the next president.
  — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 1 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024