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Example sentences for: onslaught

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Indian infantry inflicted heavy losses from their bunkers on the beaches but finally succumbed to the massive onslaught.
Perhaps more significantly, the populations remained sheltered from the potential onslaught of competing bacteria and predatory viruses, which could conceivably drastically alter their performance.
The Gupta empire began to crumble in the fifth century, with the onslaught of the so-called White Huns.
In the East Timorese U.N. compound, civilians cowered in fear of the next paramilitary onslaught.
Le Monde of Paris led its Sunday-Monday edition with a lament about "European impotence" in relation to the Russian onslaught on Chechnya.