Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: assailed
IPA transcription: [əs'eɪld]
Usage examples
  • Assailed by poignant doubts
  • A throb of thankfulness assailed her heart.
  • The Eleventh Corps had not the slightest idea that it was about to be assailed.
  • He doubts as soon as he is assailed by the objections which his inquiries may have aroused.
  • Though assailed in many ways and compelled to resort to war, the United States sought no material rewards.
  • The thick walls had cut off all sound from his ears, save a confused murmur, but now a hideous uproar assailed them.
  • It preserved her not, nevertheless, from a volley of questions, with which she was instantly assailed from various quarters.
  • But, after he had been bitterly assailed by Selwyn's papers and by his senators, he made no further attempts at independence.
  • "And the slowness and procrastination, the parts of our character that are most assailed by their criticism, need not make you blush.
  • His fervors for them increased every time he heard them assailed; he wanted to meet some of them, and passionately, yet respectfully, pour out to them his allegiance.