How to Use onslaught in a Sentence

onslaught

noun
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  • The onslaught continued as the Thorns took a 4-0 lead in the 61st minute.
    — oregonlive, 21 July 2023
  • McLemore’s four goals led the onslaught by the Wildcats that included a pair of goals from Wiswall.
    — Mike Perrin | , al, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Delaney-Smith and Feaster took the brunt of a media onslaught.
    — Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But Ukraine possesses fewer than 40 of them—not enough to stop the onslaught.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Swift ruled 2023 with an onslaught of both new and old music that the world couldn't stop listening to.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The choice of the vendors for the caloric torrent — two of the biggest fast-food chains in the world — also has stymied residents’ efforts to end the onslaught.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The legal onslaught didn’t stop there, my colleague Brian Fung writes.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
  • My mouth was now a barricade between me and the onslaught of adolescence, a broke-glass fence around my body.
    — Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • The scene began to splinter in the 1960s as the area faced the onslaught of urban renewal, and Ms. Wilson moved a few subway stops north, to a loft on Canal Street.
    — Alex Williams, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Big mistake leads to an action onslaught: Cruz takes Ehsan out with one of the hundreds of knives at her disposal.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Justin Ashley set the tone early for what would end up being an onslaught against the best Top Fuel dragsters in the business.
    — Cole Cusumano, The Arizona Republic, 26 Mar. 2023
  • An onslaught of goals filled the first two quarters, with each side orchestrating its own run.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Democrats were able to resist the onslaught for several years, maintaining control of the high court.
    — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Despite the onslaught of book bans, there is a positive movement.
    — Taylor Crumpton, Essence, 18 July 2023
  • Karumba is only the latest town to suffer under the onslaught.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But the national onslaught of anti-trans legislation still lives in the back of their mind.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The defensive sea wall intended to protect the plant from such an onslaught was many meters too low to stop the monster wave.
    — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 18 July 2023
  • Consumers continue to spend and companies continue to hire at a solid clip in the face of the Fed’s onslaught.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Red Stick warriors tried to defend the settlement, but lost to an onslaught of more than 2,000 militia members and U.S. troops.
    — Amy Yurkanin | , al, 25 Mar. 2023
  • But these attacks have not halted or seemingly slowed the onslaught.
    — Noam Raydan, Foreign Affairs, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The injury onslaught continued after Williams exited the game in the second quarter and Dobbins left in the third.
    — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 10 Sep. 2023
  • That of course caused an onslaught of reaction from concerned readers, convinced the Dodgers have no shot of reaching the World Series.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The onslaught was repulsed by a combination of warships and fighter jets.
    — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Ukrainian forces retreated from Bakhmut in May after months of fighting to hold it against a Russian onslaught.
    — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
  • This year, Binance’s share of the crypto trading market has dipped amid the onslaught from regulators.
    — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Democrats haven’t even started the messaging onslaught against Trump that is coming — to say nothing of the criminal trials.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • This mindlessness has been brought on by the onslaught of multitasking.
    — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2023
  • But Los Gatos dug down deep and uncovered the resilience needed to withstand the M-A onslaught, scoring the final four points of the third quarter (all on free throws) and regaining the lead.
    — Glenn Reeves, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The Wildcats are quicker, craftier and tougher than the version that couldn’t keep pace with Houston or withstand a second-half onslaught by mighty Princeton.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The other big thing to watch is how U.S. courts react to the Biden administration’s broad onslaught against the crypto industry.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 28 Mar. 2023

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