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493 examples of Assault in a sentence

And if we were able to stop repeat offenders like Mike after just their second assault following a match, survivors like Hannah would never even be assaulted in the first place.
And because we're creating a real deterrent to assault, for perhaps the first time, maybe the Mikes of the world would never even try to assault anyone.
But I had just seen the line crossed between a high-powered dean and assault with a pastry.
Before I had time to process what was happening, a hand was clapped around my mouth so that I could not breathe, and the young man behind me dragged me to the ground, beat my head repeatedly against the pavement until my face began to bleed, kicking me in the back and neck while he began to assault me, ripping off my clothes and telling me to "shut up," as I struggled to cry for help.
I'd read news reports, statistics, and knew how common sexual assault was, yet I couldn't actually name a single person that I'd heard speak out about an experience of this kind before.
And yet sexual assault is not something new.
Sexual assault, along with other kinds of injustices, is reported in the media all the time.
It was giving airtime to the issue of sexual assault, opening up discussions amongst friends, amongst families, in the media that had been closed for too long, and stressing that victims shouldn't feel to blame for what happened to them.
It is traumatic stress like active combat or natural disasters or community violence or sexual assault that causes post-traumatic stress disorder, and not everyone that is exposed to stress develops a mood disorder.
All of them had handguns, some had assault rifles.
For several years now, we've been engaged in a national debate about sexual assault on campus.
And it's worth considering how this is serving girls; whether it's keeping them safer from disease, coercion, betrayal, assault.
Because today, as we well know, truth and facts are under assault.
And most importantly, truth and fact are under assault.
And we've seen cases of sexual violence and assault, of extreme forms of abuse and exploitation.
She's one of the 85 women I interviewed while conducting research on sexual assault.
These are the events that, until recently, I didn't even call assault.
Most of them are the product of a physical assault, and some of them are actually sustained in jail.
Arnita Lorraine Thurston was a computer programmer, former domestic worker, survivor of sexual assault, an artist and an activist.
Or more and more students at universities in the United States demand the banishment of antique classics which depict sexual violence or assault from the curriculum.
Feelings of fury, of assault and of helplessness.
And you can see this looks a bit like a chef's hat, but actually that's an assault, the one in blue.
I was reading this list out loud to a friend and at first was laughing, it was so ludicrous, but I'd just gotten past "mangled," and my voice broke, and I had to stop and collect myself from the emotional shock and impact that the assault from these words unleashed.
He was clearly under assault all the time.
It's an all-out assault on the senses featuring "in your face" dinosaurs.
The German elite StormTroopers assault Russian bunkers en masse like an old WW1 battle.
And I heard that Claire Daines' character was arrested for assault so I thought that maybe she would kick a lot of ass and that would be cool.
And if you happen to still have a copy of "AI Assault" (shown a week or two earlier also on SciFi), you'll see the folks in there tramping through the same ersatz jungle.
The original "Assault on Precinct 13" is gritty, witty, and - perhaps most importantly - short.
Worse yet, the African-American hero of the first movie is here replaced with handsome white boy Ethan Hawke, which makes this "Assault" less progressive than the 1970s one.
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