14 example sentences using assail.
Assail used in a sentence
Assail in a sentence as a verb
I never meant to assail his intentions in this case.
It's an ongoing theme in the book that Sauron is too powerful to assail directly.
Because he's recanted, and is too powerful to assail anyway.
If you want to assail the general category of what you consider to be demeaning jobs, then go for it.
And the reason why I don't want to assail Dijkstra's argument is that I've programmed fairly extensively in both types of languages.
Yet I doubt there's a credible critic around who would assail the beauty of Nabokov's results, or claim that he wanted for practice.
To ask for a "tl;dr", receive it, and then assail the author of the condensed summary for lacking details is an especially clever kind of troll.
How is that assailing?Perhaps my tone came across as snarky because the person providing the TL;DR actually "assailed" me for asking for a TL;DR.
As an entrepreneur you are obviously a free spirit, not the kind of person that settles well in a normal jobThus does the domesticated assail the free.
I always find it funny when new members of a community assail veterans with accusations of eternal September type of behaviour.
The rich love to assail Proposition 13 but without it a normal person could not retire in Califronia after working a lifetime in California.
So why not go after corruption?People like to assail lobbyists and the super-rich corporations that supposedly buy favorable policy, and of course, everyone then blames the rich for it.
When people assail the change from Futura to Verdana, most give only their personal aesthetic preference for Verdana -- a pure assertion of its superiority.
So, if I tell you about the issues of South African droughts in Capetown and now that you know this but haven't done anything about it and any excuse you give me like 'I don't live there' or 'I don't have the time' or 'I don't have the money', don't those all fall under 'we all have to work and survive' and thus you're passively supporting the status quo of bad things?I think the next step is then I can assail you with facts of every bad thing going on in this world and if you do nothing about it, you're cowardly abdicating your political responsibility, neh?I might go a step further with your position and say that silence/speaking out are really two sides of the same coin.
Assail definitions
attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week"
See also: attack