ATTACK in a Sentence

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We have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the Lech.

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 Meanings and Examples of ATTACK
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attack
 v.  take aggressive action against someone
 n.  offensive move; expression of strong criticism
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  And don't expect anyone to take your part: the others, your companions, will attack you, too, win her favour, for all are in slavery here, and have lost all conscience and pity here long ago.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VII
2  But I was, what is called, PUTTING IT ON, to save appearances, though the attack was a genuine one.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IX
3  He looked at Prince Vasili in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of illness.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII
4  We have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the Lech.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III
5  Then he imagined how, after the attack, Bogdanich would come up to him as he lay wounded and would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
6  He rode off at a walk to the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the French.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII
7  He reported that his regiment had been attacked by French cavalry and that, though the attack had been repulsed, he had lost more than half his men.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII
8  The attack of the Sixth Chasseurs secured the retreat of our right flank.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX
9  However inconvenient the position, it was now necessary to attack in order to cut a way through for themselves.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX
10  No one said anything definite, but the rumor of an attack spread through the squadron.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX
11  Twice they had attempted to attack this point, but on each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot from the four isolated guns on the hillock.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XX
12  This was the last French attack and was met by soldiers who had sheltered in the village houses.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI
13  "I saw the Pavlograd hussars attack there, your excellency," chimed in Zherkov, looking uneasily around.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI
14  Next day the French army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of Bagration's detachment was reunited to Kutuzov's army.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI
15  In the middle of his story, just as he was saying: "You cannot imagine what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack," Prince Andrew, whom Boris was expecting, entered the room.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  It wasn't a serious heart attack, but it gave him a terrible scare.
17  In the most recent attack one man was shot dead and two others were wounded.
18  When the attack took place, there were no victim support schemes.
19  The whole building was soon ablaze after the attack.
20  Then he unleashed his own, unstoppable, attack.
21  She was the innocent victim of an arson attack.
22  Doctors said surgery could induce a heart attack.
23  Our immediate response to the attack was sheer horror.
24  He died of a heart attack brought on by overwork.
25  She launched into a blistering attack on her boss.
26  United looked woefully short of menace in attack.
27  She defended herself from the attack.
28  The Allies regrouped and launched a new attack.
29  The threat of attack has been greatly exaggerated.
30  She was the victim of a sickening attack.