How to Use onslaught in a Sentence

onslaught

noun

• Since the onslaught began on Monday over three dozen people have been killed and scores more wounded.
  — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2022
• Eight prisoners have been reported dead as a result of the onslaught.
  — Kylie Moore-Gilbert, CNN, 24 Oct. 2022
• Russia’s onslaught against Ukrainian civilian targets is set to get worse.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2022
• Meanwhile, two airports in western North Carolina ran out of fuel amid the onslaught of activity.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
• The onslaught continued as the Thorns took a 4-0 lead in the 61st minute.
  — oregonlive, 21 July 2023
• The pandemic onslaught caused Schmitt to have to think on the fly for the last three years.
  — The Courier-Journal, 26 Jan. 2023
• Its jets, ships, and tanks are not equipped to defend against an onslaught of drones.
  — Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024
• For years, James has been at the other end of Curry’s onslaughts.
  — Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 11 Aug. 2024
• McLemore’s four goals led the onslaught by the Wildcats that included a pair of goals from Wiswall.
  — Mike Perrin | , al, 10 Mar. 2023
• Jayson Tatum has generally been at the front of the onslaught.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
• Delaney-Smith and Feaster took the brunt of a media onslaught.
  — Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
• But Ukraine possesses fewer than 40 of them—not enough to stop the onslaught.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
• Swift ruled 2023 with an onslaught of both new and old music that the world couldn't stop listening to.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Such an onslaught from the East is once again possible.
  — Lorenz Meier, TIME, 13 Aug. 2024
• Waylon Walsh led the onslaught, going 3-for-3 with a double and six RBI.
  — Mike Lefkow, The Mercury News, 18 May 2024
• So think of the onslaught of crank diets as a smorgasbord of strategies, and pick and choose the ones that can fit your lifestyle.
  — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2023
• The choice of the vendors for the caloric torrent — two of the biggest fast-food chains in the world — also has stymied residents’ efforts to end the onslaught.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• For the second time in three games the Bucks set a season-high for scoring in a half with an 85-point onslaught in the opening 24 minutes.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2023
• But the onslaught of efforts and funds have not panned out in tangible results.
  — Sarah Owermohle, STAT, 11 July 2024
• But the Hawkeyes smashed the Hoosiers in an offensive onslaught spearheaded by Perkins.
  — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Mar. 2023
• This onslaught of rain will raise flood concerns in the rivers and streams that flow throughout Santa Cruz County.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2023
• The legal onslaught didn’t stop there, my colleague Brian Fung writes.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
• My mouth was now a barricade between me and the onslaught of adolescence, a broke-glass fence around my body.
  — Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• That is far from the only place getting an onslaught of winter weather.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2023
• The scene began to splinter in the 1960s as the area faced the onslaught of urban renewal, and Ms. Wilson moved a few subway stops north, to a loft on Canal Street.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2023
• Amid the onslaught of Marvel and DC Comics titles in film and on television, the superhero genre isn’t rare.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 26 June 2024
• Big mistake leads to an action onslaught: Cruz takes Ehsan out with one of the hundreds of knives at her disposal.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2023
• Justin Ashley set the tone early for what would end up being an onslaught against the best Top Fuel dragsters in the business.
  — Cole Cusumano, The Arizona Republic, 26 Mar. 2023
• Its military onslaught on Gaza was as heavy-handed and shortsighted as the American campaign in Vietnam nearly 60 years ago.
  — Ari Shavit, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2024
• The bans follow an onslaught of viral TikTok memes showing exasperated teens re-creating slipping on Crocs and tripping in their school hallways—a trend even Crocs acknowledged on the social media platform.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024