Assails is an English word. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Assails meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of assail
Using Assails
- The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of assail
- In the example corpus, assails often appears in combinations such as: assails the.
Context around Assails
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Assails
- In this selection, "assails" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, longer, greta and now stand out and add context to how "assails" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include amorality and assails trump s and and now assails the cornerstone. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "assails" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with assails
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Trump rails against immigrants, embraces neo-Nazis, assails the free press and seeks, with his Republican allies, to dismantle effective governance. (21 words)
But two years on, McConnell has proven a loyal implementer of the president's initiatives, and Trump no longer assails the senator on Twitter. (24 words)
The unassailable truth is that climate deaths have plummeted dramatically and billions of people have been lifted from abject poverty by the system that Greta assails. (26 words)
Trump has sought to rig American democracy in favor of white voters and refused to recognize the oversight authority of Congress, and now assails the cornerstone principle of multiracial democracy that none of us is more American than any other. (40 words)
The author argues the “root of the problem is the President’s amorality” and assails Trump’s “reckless decisions,” “erratic behavior” and what he describes as Trump’s “impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective” leadership style. (35 words)
The unassailable truth is that climate deaths have plummeted dramatically and billions of people have been lifted from abject poverty by the system that Greta assails. (26 words)
Example sentences (5)
But two years on, McConnell has proven a loyal implementer of the president's initiatives, and Trump no longer assails the senator on Twitter.
The unassailable truth is that climate deaths have plummeted dramatically and billions of people have been lifted from abject poverty by the system that Greta assails.
Trump has sought to rig American democracy in favor of white voters and refused to recognize the oversight authority of Congress, and now assails the cornerstone principle of multiracial democracy that none of us is more American than any other.
The author argues the “root of the problem is the President’s amorality” and assails Trump’s “reckless decisions,” “erratic behavior” and what he describes as Trump’s “impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective” leadership style.
Trump rails against immigrants, embraces neo-Nazis, assails the free press and seeks, with his Republican allies, to dismantle effective governance.
Common combinations with assails
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: