Get to know Assailant better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like attacker or aggressor.
Assailant meaning
- Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally.
- A hostile critic or opponent.
Using Assailant
- The main meaning on this page is: Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally. | A hostile critic or opponent.
- Useful related words include: attacker, aggressor, assaulter, wrongdoer.
- In the example corpus, assailant often appears in combinations such as: the assailant, assailant was, assailant who.
Context around Assailant
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Assailant
- In this selection, "assailant" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, alleged, unknown, sexual, finally, stabbed and audrey stand out and add context to how "assailant" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alleged sexual assailant and an assailant stabbed a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "assailant" sits close to words such as alluded, apostolic and babe, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with assailant
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
New York City Police Department is asking for public assistance in identifying the assailant. (14 words)
Authorities have not been clear on the gender of the assailant, Audrey Hale, age 28. (15 words)
Kyuhyun reportedly tried to restrain the assailant and his finger was cut in the process. (15 words)
A San Francisco man who was violently attacked last June by a mentally ill man in his Lower Nob Hill neighborhood is fighting his assailant's possible release to a mental health diversion program. (34 words)
Months after the BBC published the article about some lesbians allegedly being coerced into having sex with trans women, it was revealed the news website had changed the gender of one alleged sexual assailant. (34 words)
One columnist suggests that Keir Starmer would have massively increased his popularity if he had thumped the heckler who showered him with glitter, in much the way that John Prescott famously punched an assailant. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Edwards pleads with the assailant to release her, while a voice off camera cautions the assailant against striking Edwards’ child.
Seeing an assailant’s friends or people who look like the assailant can trigger panic attacks.
A 19-year-old Ohio resident has been identified as the alleged assailant and arrested for attacking the 59-year-old English musician when he's smoking cigarette outside the Four Seasons Hotel.
After some time of fighting, the assailant finally gave up in the face of her bravery.
An assailant stabbed a student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State to death on Thursday after an argument over N1,000.
A quick-thinking boy who saw a would-be kidnapper try to abduct his 8-year-old sister fought off her assailant by firing at him.
A San Francisco man who was violently attacked last June by a mentally ill man in his Lower Nob Hill neighborhood is fighting his assailant's possible release to a mental health diversion program.
Asked for his reaction to McCaughey’s sentence, Officer Hodges said it depends on what happens when his assailant is released from prison.
Authorities have not been clear on the gender of the assailant, Audrey Hale, age 28.
Authorities say the attack ended when police shot and killed the assailant, a former student they identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale.
Chand followed him inside and held him at knifepoint until Dhaliwal tried to fight back and four gym-goers jumped into action — pouncing on the assailant, according to footage of the assault.
Faced with the prospect of being hunted by an unknown assailant, remains positive and hopeful through it all.
In the search for the assailant, they located the alleged suspect, later identified as Lowe, a few blocks away, holding a knife.
Kyuhyun reportedly tried to restrain the assailant and his finger was cut in the process.
Michigan State Police said in a news release that the 8-year-old girl was in her backyard when the alleged assailant came out of the woods, grabbed her and covered her mouth.
Months after the BBC published the article about some lesbians allegedly being coerced into having sex with trans women, it was revealed the news website had changed the gender of one alleged sexual assailant.
New York City Police Department is asking for public assistance in identifying the assailant.
No gunshot residue was found on Flynn’s hands to support his ex-girlfriend’s claim he fired his gun at the assailant, Thomas said.
One columnist suggests that Keir Starmer would have massively increased his popularity if he had thumped the heckler who showered him with glitter, in much the way that John Prescott famously punched an assailant.
Reports are that at around 15:40hrs on Thursday, Chunilall was performing traffic duties at Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) when he saw his assailant fighting with another school boy.
Common combinations with assailant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the assailant 94×
- assailant was 23×
- assailant who 18×
- unknown assailant 13×
- an assailant 11×
- assailant in 11×
- alleged assailant 10×
- his assailant 9×
- her assailant 8×
- assailant and 6×