How to Use attack in a Sentence

attack

1 of 2 verb
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  • He attacked the guard with a knife.
  • The troops attacked at dawn.
  • Troops attacked the fortress at dawn.
  • Did you see the way the kids attacked that pizza?
  • The professor has been widely attacked for her position on the issue.
  • People are attacking the mayor for breaking campaign promises.
  • This was not the first time Nassar has been attacked in prison.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • Knight was in the car with Shakur when they were attacked in Las Vegas.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The coach who embraces reporters or the one who attacks them?
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Before she was attacked, the Grant Park skate park had been a haven for Zoey Wolfe.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
  • In a new ad launched last week, the group attacks the president and his son, Hunter Biden.
    — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Christie, Haley and Pence all attacked Trump at the first debate.
    — Nigel Chiwaya, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The fear of being attacked forced their family to pick up and move to Qusra.
    — Zeena Saifi, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Yet in the 18 months since, both sides have relied on artillery, drones and long-range missiles to attack.
    — Lara Jakes, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The White men attacked him, sparking a massive brawl as onlookers stepped in to help the co-captain.
    — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The state agency most known for its epic failures now has a leader attacking even the smallest ones.
    — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • Asked to comment on her gambit — a query inviting him to attack Porter and accuse her of hypocrisy — Schiff refused to bite.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Instead of attacking him, the dogs came to protect him and became his allies.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 10 July 2023
  • Later that day in the same neighborhood, the otter attacked a dog that was with its owners and their baby.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • As the father of three was watching TV, he was attacked from behind, suffering seven stab wounds to the neck, chest and thigh.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023
  • Israel has said that around 240 hostages were taken when Hamas attacked the country on Oct. 7.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • It has been invoked only once: after the United States was attacked on 9/11.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Jan. 2024
  • In August alone, an 82-year-old woman was attacked by a black bear in her Colorado home, and a 7-year-old boy was attacked in his yard in New York.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The boy accused the sisters of attacking a member of his family.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Israel has launched some strikes in Lebanon in recent months and Hezbollah has attacked parts of northern Israel.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The 39-year-old also said that the Ukrainians were attacking their position with drones, something his unit didn’t have.
    — Sugam Pokharel, CNN, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Christie has positioned himself as the G.O.P. hopeful who is most willing to attack Trump.
    — Maya King, New York Times, 9 July 2023
  • Antibodies in the blood can recognize the organ as foreign and may try to attack it.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Twichell neither attacks his dad nor makes excuses for his views.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The Antelopes play an aggressive, attacking style that gets them to the free throw line more than anyone else in Division I (30.2 per game).
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2023
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attack

2 of 2 noun
  • The surprise attack came at dawn.
  • The immune system is the body's defense against attack by germs.
  • The spray protects plants from attacks by many common pests.
  • There is a threat of nuclear attack.
  • There have been many attacks against the professor for her position on the issue.
  • The newspaper editorial is an attack on policy-makers.
  • Each attack on Kharkiv feels like a body blow to the soul.
    — Claire Harbage, NPR, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The normal route -- three weeks via the Suez Canal -- has been shut down by the Houthi attacks.
    — Paul Wiseman and Mae Anderson The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Some of them may have been sleeping at the start of the brutal attack.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 27 June 2023
  • Abigail, who was 3 years old at the time of the attack, turned 4 on Friday.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Brave said that such attacks can happen up to 10 times a day.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • She has been held hostage by Hamas since the Oct. 7 attacks, in which both her parents were killed.
    — Harriet Torry, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2023
  • After all, it was written in the wake of the attack on the United States Capitol.
    — Rita Braver, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The United States feared Grenada could be used as a base from which to launch an attack.
    — Rennie Svirnovskiy, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
  • There’s been a Russian missile attack, and the house, like the woman’s life, lies in ruins.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The effort was a reprise of a visit by Blinken last month, just days after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
    — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The site of the stabbing attack at a kindergarten in Guangdong province on Monday.
    — Sha Hua, WSJ, 10 July 2023
  • And while shark-on-human attacks are rare, there has been reports of bites occurring in the New York area.
    — John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 9 July 2023
  • The attack on goal is averted and his teammates begin an assault of their own.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • Iran blames Israel for the attack, and has vowed to retaliate.
    — Peter Kenyon, NPR, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Dog attacks have been known to kill animals and humans.
    — Meera Subramanian, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
  • These Arab states still see Iran as a shared threat, and last month’s brutal attack by Iran’s proxy, Hamas, has reinforced that view.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Last month, a rare stabbing attack killed one person and injured three others in Seoul.
    — Grace Moon, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The attacks have increased with regularity since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The incident was the first in the region to cost the lives of American troops since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and its ensuing conflict.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The donors pulled their funding over allegations by Israel that some of its staff were involved in the Hamas attacks.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Drone attacks in Russia lift prices Much of this late winter increase in prices is normal.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Police seized the knife from him in between his barrage of attacks on officers.
    — Michael Kunzelman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2024
  • All of them have previously been singled out by Musk for ridicule or attack.
    — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The targets of these attacks often find few means of recourse besides turning back to the internet for help.
    — Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023

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