Example sentences for: attacking

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

  • Dole's campaign manager, Scott Reed, used the same weaselly language when he issued a statement attacking the "administration's potentially criminal actions in squeezing money out of the Indonesian Lippo conglomerate," going on to ask the president, "Why have you used U.S. foreign policy in Indonesia as a fund-raising tool to help secure illegal campaign contributions from a foreigner?"

  • Some conservatives now seem to have no ideology other than attacking all other conservatives.

  • In a cover story in the Weekly Standard , Andrew Ferguson takes the field of evolutionary psychology to task by attacking its standard bearer, How the Mind Works author Steven Pinker.

  • Pundits tend to like the Schultz position because it allows them to continue to defend the idea of sexual harassment law while attacking cases like Paula Jones', which focuses on an alleged sexual act but makes no convincing showing of damage to her career.

  • The action sets a dangerous precedent by attacking a sovereign state for suppressing an ethnic minority with secessionist aspirations.


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