Thursday, October 4, 2012

assail

(v.): to attack or deliver a blow

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  1. The robber assailed the store owner with a club.

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  2. I assailed my brother with a sucker punch, because that's the only method I could use to get away with attacking him for no reason.

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    1. I assailed the cougar with a lollipop, which is not really effective.

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    2. i could imagine you doing that..

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  3. I saw a pack of students chasing after teachers and assail them after the graduation.

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    1. Parallelism: "chasing after and assailing the teachers after the graduation."

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  4. The assassin assailed and killed the target.

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  5. The terrorists are likely to assail New York.

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  6. The terrorists plan on assail the plane flying towards New York.

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  7. That guy just assailed me with a falcon punch with no particular reason.

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  8. The snow storm continuously assailed the village.

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  9. The colonists assailed the British with surprise attacks called the Guerrilla Warfare.

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  10. The politician was assailed by a shower of eggs.

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  11. My mother assailed a cockroach that appeared in the kitchen with her indoor slipper.

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  12. The policemen were assailed by a shower of stones.

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  13. The abusive father assailed his children every day; 20 years later, he was put behind bars after being convicted of indirectly murdering one of them.

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  14. The soldiers assailed the fortress since it had a critical location.

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  15. Muhammad Ali assailed the final blow to Joe Frazier's right eye, and successfully won the title at the "Thrilla in Manila".

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  16. Allen tried to assail his classmate by kicking him from the back; however, he eventually gave up because his target was Jack Hsiao.

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  17. The high mortality of British troops at Battle of Bunkerhill shows that assailing is not always the best road to victory.

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  18. The natives americans assailed the first british colonists to step on their land.

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    1. Capitalization: "Native Americans" and "British colonists"

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