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Example sentences for: onslaught

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A little farther west, Quarteira, once a quiet fishing village, is today virtually unrecognizable, subsumed under an onslaught of rows and rows of apartment buildings.
In the East Timorese U.N. compound, civilians cowered in fear of the next paramilitary onslaught.
From the moment it became clear that John F. Kennedy Jr. and his two passengers had been lost at sea, Keeping Tabs--who was passingly acquainted with Kennedy--began to brace herself for the inevitable tabloid onslaught.
Last December, when the United States and Britain bombed Iraq for four days, television networks covered the onslaught live.
The bitter receptors fell first to the onslaught of the UCSD–NIDCR team and other molecular biologists.