attack
Example Sentences
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Today the Navy needs a more powerful ship to better defend its carriers, which have become increasingly vulnerable, most recently seen by an attempted Houthi attack on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
“There’s always a little bit of low fire going on during quiet moments, but then you get fire that becomes much more destructive whenever there’s an attack sequence.”
From Los Angeles Times
Their tackle success was down at 76% and despite shading 22 entries 17 to 12, they had little of Bristol's attacking glint, until Marcus Smith jinked over late on with the game already gone.
From BBC
Casemiro's role is more positionally strict - screening the defence, breaking up play and getting up and down the pitch to close the distance between defence and attack when the ball is played long.
From BBC
Still, the attack on el bolillo clearly touched a nerve in a capital otherwise in a festive mood.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
