assault
Example Sentences
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“I did not resist, I did not impede or assault any agent,” Retes said.”What happened to me that day was not a misunderstanding.
From Los Angeles Times
"When there is no consent there is assault," she posted on social media.
From BBC
“Two officers were injured. Two violent rioters were arrested and were charged with assault on federal officers and disorderly conduct,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times
Officials also are annoyed by Europe’s tax and regulatory assaults on successful U.S. tech companies.
It was a humiliation for a regime that had invested so much of the country’s national wealth into a proxy network that was designed to deter exactly this sort of assault on the homeland.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
