attacked

Example Sentences

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Tehran has warned of a fierce response if it is attacked again.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Satirists can be censored, silenced, imprisoned, attacked and cancelled.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

Police say a 73-year-old man was seriously injured after being attacked on Sunday while he was inside the animal's enclosure, located in a privately-owned facility on the outskirts of the German city of Leipzig.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

“In this moment in time, the community has been attacked in many ways, and so the last thing we needed was for a festival that everybody enjoyed to be canceled.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

On May 30, 1942, one thousand British planes attacked Cologne, Germany, leaving the Rhineland city in flames.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti