Example sentences for: assailed

How can you use “assailed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Useful though it might be, the idea of archiving the Internet is assailed by all sides.

  • In 1923, assailed by economic problems and with catastrophe imminent, the king accepted a general, Miguel Primo de Rivera, as dictator.

  • As with Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March two years ago, feminists have assailed PK's "exclusion" of women.

  • The WP states, "Both the tobacco industry and public health advocates assailed the bill from opposite directions: The industry called its price-tag 'unrealistic and onerous' while public health advocates said it was too weak on the key issue of cutting underage smoking."

  • Whether charging that Thomas Jefferson took a slave as his mistress or that Grover Cleveland fathered an illegitimate child, opponents have long assailed the morals of presidential aspirants.


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