ONSLAUGHT in a Sentence

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His is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon.

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 Meanings and Examples of ONSLAUGHT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
onslaught
 n.  assault; a fierce or destructive attack
Classic Sentence:
1  Tom stood still, rather flustered by this onslaught.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
2  He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  The first onslaught of jealousy, once lived through, could never come back again, and even the discovery of infidelities could never now affect her as it had the first time.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
4  To the youth it was an onslaught of redoubtable dragons.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
5  In fact, God only knows what would have happened had not the fates been pleased by a miracle to deliver Chichikov's elegant back and shoulders from the onslaught.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
6  There are instances of bravery ignored and obstinate, which defend themselves step by step in that fatal onslaught of necessities and turpitudes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
7  Aeneas, wrathful at their mad onslaught, rushes on them, towering high with levelled spear.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
8  For a moment there would come a lull in the storm, but then it would swoop down again with such onslaughts that it seemed impossible to stand against it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 30
9  There was a sensation that he and his fellows, at bay, were pushing back, always pushing fierce onslaughts of creatures who were slippery.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
10  But, God help me, I am old, and these foul onslaughts distract an aged man's brain.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
11  The disease resumed its onslaughts.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence:
1  In December they launched a full-scale onslaught on the capital.
2  It is unlikely that his forces could withstand an allied onslaught for very long.
3  The neighborhood service centers, however, survived the council onslaught.
4  His is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon.
5  The islanders took shelter in mountain caves to escape the onslaught.
6  Hundreds of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate as big cities and small towns across the U.S. Northeast braced for the onslaught of a superstorm threatening some 60 million people.