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Sentence Examples Wallace led the onslaught with his sparkling play and boundless energy on both ends of the court. Returning to our empty house, the first thing I do after fending off a slobbery onslaught from the dog is to head straight for the stereo. Before the onslaught of myxomatosis in the 1970s, rabbit was a common cheap food source used by all classes. The onslaught was unleashed on the day that G8 world leaders met at Gleneagles. And when you tire of the cultural onslaught, the gardens are jolly nice, too. If its tenacity in our garden is anything to go by, willowherb will survive any nuclear onslaught. Over generations his family sold pieces of their agricultural land as the only way to survive the unremitting onslaught of emergencies. Whether it will hold up under the latest media onslaught remains to be seen. We need to hold the line against the continued onslaught of this quasi fascist neocon administration on all fronts. Chabert's regiment led a cavalry charge against the Russian onslaught and turned the tide of battle for Napoleon. My body was still sore from the onslaught and I had not moved the few times I had woken. It was enough to bring on an onslaught of particularly vicious flu for anyone. Ultimately we cannot protect the environment without addressing the ever-increasing onslaught of advertising that causes overconsumption. The chill norther whipped through the small town and reminded every living creature of the onslaught of the winter to come. Had Cleveland's message come sooner, perhaps his supporters might have had enough time to rebut the onslaught of attacks. The odds were stacked against them but there was no lack of self-belief from the Tigers, who subjected the Wakefield line to an onslaught. The Iraqi army disintegrated before the onslaught, offering only token resistance. The hapless Sailor briefly stopped the onslaught when he scored three minutes later, but to no avail. The Russian army collapsed under this onslaught and the attack was initially incredibly successful. England faced a fierce onslaught from South Africa for much of the match and Woodward was impressed with what he saw. Show More Sentences When the memories came flooding back she only just managed to hold back an onslaught of tears. Shell crumbled before the onslaught, and the Brent Spar was taken off to a Norwegian fjord. Another area of concern for IT professionals has been the growing onslaught of spam. In fact, the proliferation of viruses and the onslaught of spam have left companies and consumers staggering. Hundreds of people went to the cemetery as news of the onslaught spread, and grief-stricken relatives were still turning up 24 hours later. Few of us are able to withstand the onslaught of the forces of money and greed. Everyone can turn a blind eye to the woundless slashes of the lying tongue, the cruel word, the baleful onslaught. He entered the conservatory in Minsk, fleeing to Tashkent ahead of the next German onslaught. I was dreading a rehash of the '80s media onslaught detailing the effects behind the film. Political historians have lamented the death of political history since the 1960s and 1970s onslaught of social and cultural historians. No editorialist at a major newspaper or television news commentator has even hinted at moral qualms over the American onslaught. In the face of such an onslaught, the Germans, military as well as civilians, were, by and large, defenceless. It was the genesis of an onslaught of negativity towards the family that made them all seem a bit more human. As talks dragged on through the day, special forces continued preparing for an onslaught. The soldiers tried there best to garrison the town with what they had and readied themselves for the onslaught. People began to blame the liberality of the 1990 law for the onslaught of foreign missionaries. Having cornering the market for fast, eat-out outlets in the 1970s and 1980s, the group has faced an onslaught from a host of new competitors. Authorities finally admitted they couldn't seem to make a dent in the onslaught of dopers, vandals and thugs. The critics have relished their role as doubting Thomases in the face of this upbeat onslaught. They eschew the expected doomy onslaught in favour of Southern-flavoured 70s rock. Show More Sentences His choreography is an onslaught at first, but after riding the momentum, one may find it satisfying, galvanizing, and thrilling. The government has launched a full-scale onslaught on public sector workers' pension rights. It's a rousing, inspiring onslaught that succeeds in raising the hairs on the back of your neck. Challenging the onslaught of modern fashion, the ancient art of henna design still stands ground, refusing to be pushed aside. The new millennium has prompted an onslaught of institutionally engineered revisionism. The Reds' semi-final exit at the hands of Bayer Leverkusen has led to yet another onslaught by those critics who relish pulling United to pieces. This got wilder and wilder until, bit by bit, the entire drum set was collapsing onto the floor under the fury of this onslaught. Yelping in pain he tried to parry her attacks, but the onslaught came so fast he stumbled, hitting the ground hard. She paused for a moment, as if gathering her breath for another onslaught of rapid-fire questions. There is not one word of compassion or concern for the inevitable victims of another onslaught. He wisely perches his sleeping bag on top of a dune to avoid their onslaught. The current news onslaught of grisly fluff is a symptom of media priorities that have left democratic possibilities in the dust. Josh pulled the collar of his grey marl coat up to shield his neck from the onslaught of bitter winds. Suddenly, the onslaught of dismal economic news seems to be weighing heavily on the president and his party. In the ears of the new French lords and their clerks, English had a barbarous sound, and there followed an onslaught on the old vernacular. York weathered the onslaught and their stylised and pacey three-quarters in turn began to threaten. He really believes that women are so meek that we are unable to stand our ground against the onslaught of male debate. He continues his onslaught against all things glamorous, now beardless, but sporting a home-made basin-cut. The 1641 rebellion briefly veered into an onslaught against the settlers in Ulster. On Republic Day, the Prime Minister used warlike words to assure the nation of a coming total war against the criminal onslaught. Show More Sentences The humidity dampens the desire to move, motivation of any kind thoroughly drenched by the onslaught of heavy tropical rain. Awaiting them at the airport last Wednesday morning was an onslaught of cameras, microphones, flashbulbs and curious reporters. The sheer cliff walls rose ominously against the brutal onslaught of the waves below. Timur, or Tamerlane, modelled himself on Genghiz Khan, and miniatures on the wall depict his ferocious onslaught on Baghdad. I was trying to make sure that we weathered the onslaught of the Asian economic crisis. It was yet a young storm, and had not released its initial onslaught of blinding lightning, crashing thunder or pouring rain. This is displayed in their ability to play slow, blissful songs and step back from the full onslaught of their upbeat material. Only Protestants escaped the onslaught, though they were never supporters of the regime. The onslaught of mobile IT is threatening to send overworked support staff over the edge. They broke apart, and Quin glared across the two paces or so of distance between him and his foe, waiting patiently for the next onslaught. Driver, however, stemmed the early onslaught with three cheap wickets and kept nagging away, swinging the ball both ways. But now the magic formula is lost forever in the new free-market multichannel onslaught and it is the viewers who, ultimately, have paid for it. He never slips up, because he is a world-class survivor of media onslaught. The opening onslaught is again a bit too chattery, as this large group seems to work best when they rein in their more voluble tendencies. But ultimately, the onslaught of negative feedback forced the lingerie monopoly to remove the item from its inventory. When Viking invaders tore through 9th-century Europe, only one Anglo-Saxon leader was able to withstand their ferocious onslaught. The follow-up story is how those who survived both the competitive onslaught, as well as the recession, have adapted. You may know that everyone agrees that Social Security and Medicare must be reformed before the baby boomer onslaught hits. He turned and dived out from the momentary cover as it crumbled under the war machine's onslaught, returning fire with the twin weapons as he continued to evade his pursuer. Rycluse jittered nervously as he watched the onslaught of an attack. Show More Sentences Most importantly, in our ameliorated reading, the ship that is the Church is seen not wallowing passively before the onslaught of waves coming from windward and leeward. They did regather for one last effort but despite an onslaught which produced a yellow card for the listless Boks' captain Joost van der Westhuizen the home defence held out. With mounting despair, he makes plans to repel the inevitable onslaught. He doesn't have the build for the Jackie Chan stunts he uses to repel the onslaught of his friends in crime-fighting, and he doesn't bear himself with heroic presence. And the onslaught of the elements has helped raise tensions to the point where a new explosion is expected any day. Most western legations report a massive increase in passport and visa enquiries, but the Italians and Spaniards have borne the brunt of the onslaught. Magazines were going through a tough time in the face of a digital onslaught, but Vogue was faring better than others. In the febrile atmosphere of Greece waiting for the onslaught everyone knows is coming, secret agents are proliferating. The bacterial onslaught changes the bone by riddling it with tiny holes. More than a dozen times he rescued the U.S. from the Belgian onslaught, improbably blocking shot after shot. How can you as a retailer combat the current onslaught of masstige? Woes betide he who thinks himself invulnerable to this cakey onslaught. Nearby, Loescher added, parking lots are a great place to see the onslaught. She said the weapons were meant for ISIS troops involved in the onslaught on Rojava. Her mind opened, a huge sluice gate to the onslaught of maddened thoughts. The seemingly endless onslaught of the narrator's prose stops mid-sentence and drops us unpunctuated into a cold stream of double-quoted closing dialogue. Much has also been written on the impact war might have on the Irish residential property market, with many commentators predicting the onslaught of negative equity. As the yellow taxi cab pulled away from the curb, and wound its way into the onslaught of New York traffic, Erica leaned back in the seat and pulled out her book. Such is the high-decibel onslaught that even the Gods could go stone deaf. The siege weapons also became so effective that the castles were no longer effective enough to stop the onslaught brought on by the catapults and ballistae. Show More Sentences To cope with the ever-increasing info onslaught, you must be able to position documents in your own future as deliberately as you move chessmen forward. I mistook the hot and cold sweats as simple terror at the thought of not getting around the shops in time, when in fact it was the onslaught of the nasty virus. Yet local manufacturers of everything from toys to shoes, as well as farmers of rice and corn, are struggling just to survive the onslaught of cheap imports. Putting on your best smile and adopting a pleasant, helpful attitude you stand eager and ready to please, waiting for the onslaught of the great shopping public. We feel the onslaught of television shows that promote and glamorize this destructive lifestyle are irresponsible and lead young impressionable children to wrong conclusions. I'm sure Gore-tex was never designed to cope with this fluidic onslaught. The Freemasonic fraternity is preparing itself for the onslaught of attention and accusations it might face after the release. He must be expecting an onslaught, because Mr. Wainwright, 33, the singer-songwriter-rhinestone-lover, has been superfabulous lately. Many people in the Balkans place their greatest folk heroes in the era of either the onslaught or the retreat of the Ottoman Empire. May be you don't know him, and only heard from FORUM instigative and negative onslaught against him in London. However his team fell to a prolonged inswing onslaught in the third match of a series of five. Native South American ungulates also did poorly, with only a handful of genera withstanding the northern onslaught. Gardner turned to defending reason and science from an onslaught of fads, fallacies, charlatans and poseurs. Dominatrixes and parents across the country are bracing for the legal onslaught. Now Tehran is making mass arrests to try to stop the onslaught. The Trojans are routed by the sudden onslaught, and Patroclus begins his assault by killing the Trojan hero Sarpedon. On countless occasions I've seen deer literally out of their minds under the onslaught of a midge or deer fly swarm attack. During the onslaught of Haiyan in Central Visayas and Western Visayas, most of the structures were destroyed by the super typhoon. And if midweek racing is not to expire completely under the onslaught of successive superduper Saturdays it needs the odd sprinkle of stardust. Seemingly immune to the onslaught of the digital age, Ceefax celebrates its 30th birthday today. Show More Sentences Kingdoms, centres of learning, archives, and churches all fell before the onslaught from the invading Danes. But the stress he experienced under the quite unexpected onslaught from the CDF unquestionably played its part. He continued his bizarre and misogynous onslaught by stating that 'Women have got more moisture in their organs. The hot and spicy flavours of Tempura Vegetables are invading the catering' sector and leading the onslaught is Fairway Foodservice. The colonization of the new easternmost lands of Russia and further onslaught eastward was led by the rich merchants Stroganovs. One task of consolidation is to organize and anthologize the onslaught of the last two decades. But how did Hard Choices do amidst this mass media onslaught? Another senate talkathon shaped up today as southern solons fashioned a vocal onslaught against new anti-lynching legislation. To further your Pan-African ideology, I would suggest that you cover Somalia, which would include exposing the US-backed Ethiopian onslaught for what it is. Since the retrenchment of a large number of crews due to inoperation of a large number of trawlers there has been the onslaught on the juvenile shrimps. In the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864, the Neepsend bridge managed to withstand the onslaught although a large amount of debris was piled up against it. Severe winter cold helps reduce adelgid populations and slow their spread, so the recent trend toward relatively mild winters is actually facilitating the adelgid onslaught. I felt myself turn blue then green then white, but before I succumbed to the growing onslaught of fainthood, I crawled back to my bed and awakened my pregnant wife. England's World Cup dreams fell apart under a French onslaught on a night when their shortcomings were brutally exposed at the quarter-final stage. And the offensive onslaught continued with Nelson using his speed to produce easy lay-ups while American Bryan Hockaday was unstoppable inside the key. They opened the doors and prepared for the onslaught of holiday shoppers. Examples from Classical Literature Kirkwood turned to meet her onslaught with a mien grave, determined, unflinching. And they in turn had killed Black Buffalo, the Teton chief that led the onslaught. But he was able to cling to the weapon, and meet each onslaught with hot metal. The Iberians having at once made an onslaught upon the cattle, he despatched some of the velites against them. The grotto was completely lost to sight beneath the onslaught of vegetation. At last, I was subjected to the usual onslaught from the strong-minded. He whirled to meet the expected onslaught of the interloper. And so forty-eight hours were left one to prepare for the onslaught. And the surprise of his onslaught proved an ally of unguessed potency. But now all is crumbling before the poisonous onslaught of modernism. In a day, his onslaught of wealth had turned open farming country into one of the best residential districts of the city. But some Neisseriea gonorrheoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhea, mutated in ways that allowed them to survive the antibiotic onslaught. Then the shouting and the struggling, and the onslaught that was made on the defenceless porter. He stepped forward with a furious onslaught to finish this audacious fellow. Behind the onslaught of all his vituperative powers lies a fear of the all-encompassing media conglomerate. If so, he could easily have risked some 20,000 in the first onslaught. General Foch not only checked the German onslaught, but drove it back. He twisted up one leg, and with the foot made so savage an onslaught upon my abdomen as to threaten to disembowel me. Tony Blair schemed, equivocated, prevaricated and lied to drag an unwilling Britain into the American onslaught on Baghdad. Then the onslaught began as Helen Alderson palmed a Jody Handley cross away from under her own bar, Dowie volleyed straight at the keeper and Fern Whelan headed a corner over. Show More Sentences Wright maintains that the majority of these texts refers not to afterlife but to Rome's impending onslaught that would turn Jerusalem into the garbage heap, Gehenna. And, hark thee, thou seemest to be a jolly confessor come hither after the onslaught, and thou shalt have as much Malvoisie as would drench thy whole convent. So vicious was his onslaught that the poorly armed and unprotected burghers, unused to the stern game of war, fell like sheep before the iron men on their iron shod horses. There they await the onslaught, the inexperienced ones clutching their revolvers and treading on twigs, but the old hands sleeping tranquilly until just before the dawn. Thus, Doc Watson, the gray-bearded, iron bodied man without a past, a fighting terror himself, was overthrown in the fraction of a second preceding his own onslaught. There were lulls in the fighting when the two would stand panting for breath, facing each other, mustering their wits and their forces for a new onslaught. He is to aid me in the onslaught, and he and his followers will personate the outlaws, from whom my valorous arm is, after changing my garb, to rescue the lady. The onslaught of the foeman to repel By might of arm all vainly did they try, And when at length 'twas left them but to die, Wearied and few the last defenders fell. She felt like one who had suffered the terror of the onslaught of a murderous footpad only to find out that it was an innocent pedestrian asking the time. Find more words! 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