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onslaught
[ on-slawt, awn- ]
noun
- an onset, assault, or attack, especially a vigorous one.
onslaught
/ ˈɒnˌslɔːt /
noun
- a violent attack
Word History and Origins
Origin of onslaught1
Word History and Origins
Origin of onslaught1
Example Sentences
The follow-up story is how those who survived both the competitive onslaught, as well as the recession, have adapted.
Nearby, Loescher added, parking lots are a great place to see the onslaught.
Vieira realizes this mission makes him the butt of an endless onslaught of skepticism and criticism.
And the onslaught of the elements has helped raise tensions to the point where a new explosion is expected any day.
Now Tehran is making mass arrests to try to stop the onslaught.
This is probably our last onslaught before the new troops and new supplies of shell come to hand in about a month from now.
Sure enough there was another onslaught made against our northernmost post.
And, without more ado, he caught up a chair and held it before him in readiness to receive the other's onslaught.
At last the bull prepared to charge; Pizarro packed away his trunk between his tusks, and quietly waited the onslaught.
Ere Nita could cry for help, she was borne down by her enemy's fierce onslaught, her white throat gripped in a clutch of death.
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