assailant

[ US /əˈseɪɫənt/ ]
[ UK /ɐsˈe‍ɪlənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who attacks
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How To Use assailant In A Sentence

  • From the dark streets of the city, whether lit by a single streetlamp or brazenly flashing neon signs, to the desolate coastline, where Marlowe is first blackjacked by an unknown assailant, there is no safe haven from disorder and danger. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
  • The victim was unable to give many details about her assailant because the attack was over in seconds.
  • According to first findings, the guard was shot down with eight or nine bullets from a machine gun fired by an unknown number of assailants who had approached him.
  • Rather Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, both discernably more open to Russian influence than Yushchenko (who was poisoned by unidentified assailants on the occasion of his last run for President), will face each other in the runoff. Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka: Foreign Affairs Roundup
  • Unlike the buccaneers, who had fired high to cripple their enemies above decks, the French fifed low to smash the hull of their assailant. Captain Blood
  • The loss of the barbican had also this unfortunate effect, that, notwithstanding the superior height of the castle walls, the besieged could not see from them, with the same precision as before, the operations of the enemy; for some straggling underwood approached so near the sallyport of the outwork, that the assailants might introduce into it whatever force they thought proper, not only under cover, but even without the knowledge of the defenders. Ivanhoe
  • In addition, those who make false claims usually say the assailant was unknown to them. Christianity Today
  • I grabbed my assailant, yelled very loudly and he dropped my phone. Times, Sunday Times
  • He said he left the house and ran around the block, which is shaped like a horseshoe, looking for the women's assailants.
  • Tiny though she was compared with her assailant, she fought like a wildcat.
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