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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.
You would assume, from this onslaught of sartorial hectoring, that the staff of Slate must dress in exquisite taste.
While Ted Koppel speculated about whether the president considered oral sex to be sex and Newsweek reported the possible existence of a semen-stained dress, the tabloid cover stories on the newsstands were: Jerry Springer ( Star ), JonBenet Ramsey ( Globe ), and Michael Jackson ( National Enquirer ). The big question this week was: Could the tabs reclaim their territory--the depravity and hypocrisy of the celebrated--in the face of the onslaught from the respectable press?
They repaired and strengthened the city walls that had saved them so many times in the past, and waited fearfully for the inevitable onslaught.
In the East Timorese U.N. compound, civilians cowered in fear of the next paramilitary onslaught.