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Example sentences for: assault

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They also voted to ban sales of semiautomatic assault weapons to minors, and many of them voted for a Democratic provision that would prohibit high-capacity ammunition clips from being imported.
F. Troops brandish Galil assault rifles; vigilantes use rifles, pistols, machetes to kill 45 suspected looters.
But I don't think he's wrestled for 21 years or boxed for six or been in more than 250 street fights or been arrested 12 times for assault and battery and attempted murder.
It is here that the flowers and greenery of Victoria begin their most delightful assault, in Beacon Hill Park, an expanse of gently rolling flower-bordered lawns and groves of cedar and oak sloping down to the Pacific Ocean.
The Standard denounced Judge Henderson's order as "an assault on popular will" and an act of "judicial usurpation."