How do you use Assault in a sentence? See 20 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like attack or rape, plus the exact meaning.
Assault in a sentence
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Assault meaning
- A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
- A violent verbal attack, for example with insults, criticism, and the like
- An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence, to do hurt to another, but without necessarily touching the person, such as by raising a fist in a threatening manner, or by striking at the person and missing.
Example sentences (20)
He also faces charges of assault by beating, assault of an emergency worker, harassment, and possession of a knife.
He has now been charged with intentional strangulation, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and sexual assault.
A 24-year-old London man has been charged with assault with a weapon, aggravated assault and breaching probation.
The Crown had asked for a charge against a fourth accused to be downgraded from assault with a weapon to assault.
Green is facing multiple charges, including statutory sexual assault and institutional sexual assault of a child.
Warrants have been issued for Henry Frank of Edmonton for assault, sexual assault, kidnapping and breach of conditions.
California's statute of limitations for simple assault is one year, though aggravated assault is three years.
Police charged two girls aged 15 and 17 with assault, assault with a weapon, theft under $5,000, and forcible confinement.
According to Mawela, the crime committed the most in Diepsloot is assault GBH, where people assault each other with weapons.
He’s facing charges of rape, sexual assault, recklessly endangering another person, indecent assault, and indecent exposure.
He previously pleaded not guilty to charges of misdemeanour assault, aggravated harassment, attempted assault and harassment.
Cornwall, ON – A 14-year-old Cornwall youth was arrested on Nov. 13, 2023, and charged with assault and assault with a weapon.
The 37-year-old, of Queen Street, Rhyl, was subsequently charged with attempted rape, sexual assault and assault by penetration.
Bias, racial remarks or assault on one black person (African) is bias, racial remarks or assault on all of us blacks (Africans).
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who is credited as the politician behind the assault ban, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2023 in late January.
Vasquez made his first appearance in Court on Friday on charges of felony second-degree assault and misdemeanor fifth-degree assault.
Belhumeur was subsequently charged with aggravated assault and two counts each of assault with a weapon and breaching a release order.
They face charges including assault on a police officer, disorderly conduct and gang assault.
He now faces a number of charges including rape, statutory sexual assault, indecent assault on a child under 13 and other related charges.
He has been charged with assault, assault with a weapon, uttering threats, forcible confinement and failure to comply with a release order.
Phrases with assault
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with assault
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sexual assault 80×
- assault and 67×
- of assault 36×
- assault with 36×
- aggravated assault 35×
- assault assault 26×
- assault on 23×
- assault by 21×
- and assault 20×
- the assault 20×
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