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How to use the word attack in a Sentence?

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When there’s a massive missile attack I go to the bathroom together with my cat.

Natalia Ulianytska

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

Three women, one clear pattern, pounce, kiss, grab, grope, don’t wait. When you’re a star you can do anything you want. And when they speak up about what happened, attack, humiliate them, call them liars. Call them too ugly to assault.

Shawn Crowley

Found on CNN
11 months ago

This is about the most intimate decision of our lives — when, whether and with whom we have a child. Everyone should have the ability to make decisions about our own lives, bodies, and futures without political interference, we need to organize, raise our voices and our votes, and overturn this attack on our freedom and our lives. I have seen that when we take action and organize we can change the world.

Heather Booth

Found on CNN
12 months ago

The administration does not face any obstacle to moving nominees who are remotely qualified for the job. People who are mainstream and qualified have a path forward. And yet some of the same far left voices who attack Sen. Feinstein in the past are now suggesting that the Senate move her off the Judiciary Committee indefinitely, the stated reason, the supposed emergency, is that Democrats are aren’t able to push through a small fraction of their nominees who are so extreme and so unqualified that they cannot win a single Republican vote in committee.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
12 months ago

This is the first time that we’ve ever found concrete evidence of a supply chain attack leading to another supply chain attack.

Charles Carmakal

Found on CNN
12 months ago

We’re under attack from all directions, we stopped fighting and the other side did not, which put us in a predicament and we had to keep fighting to defend ourselves.

Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you have a high enough number of these kinds of asymmetrical weapon systems that survive the initial attack, you can keep most of your fighting capabilities intact and stop the enemy from conducting a landing operation.

Admiral Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hippos attack not to eat people, but to get them the hell away from them, i don’t think hippos are particularly aggressive, but I think when under pressure, they attack.

Rebecca Lewison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hippos are important ecosystem engineers of the ecology of freshwater areas they inhabit. This is through nutrient recycling from dung (they consume large amounts of vegetation), hippos attack not to eat people, but to get them the hell away from them.

Philip Muruthi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At 8 a.m…. NUG (National Unity Government) and PDF (People’s Defense Force) conducted an opening ceremony of the public administration office at Pazigyi village, we had launched the attack on them. We were informed that PDF were killed at that event under the attack. They are opposing our government.

Zaw Min Tun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We knew that the intent to attack us was there, but you never completely believe until, unfortunately, something horrific like war happens. everyone in Ukraine, of course, it’s more difficult for them.

Oksana Markarova

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s a relevant fact here, it is not an attack on the judge or certainly his family. No one is suggesting that anything should happen to the judge or his family, and President Trump’s comments did not in any way, shape or form.

Joe Tacopina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think kind of taking it away from just the head pain, you know there’s many, many other symptoms that also go along with a migraine attack.

Kylie Petrarca

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We took an attack, which killed an American citizen and wounded a half a dozen others, and retaliated against that attack on the very same day, so there was an awful lot going on in time and space, and a very compressed timeline, we did communicate to Congress, and I think I’ll just leave it at that.

John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What Iran does to hide its hand is they use Iranian proxies, that’s either UAVs or rockets to be able to attack our forces in either Iraq or Syria.

Erik Kurilla

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We noticed that it was an attack on Black and brown, Hispanic, Indigenous and LGBTQ+ voices in particular; those were the folks that they were going after.

Stephana Ferrell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The attack is really large-scale and for the first time using such different types of missiles. We see that this time as many as six Kinzhal were used. This is an attack like I don’t remember seeing before, so far, we have no capabilities to counter these weapons.

Yurii Ihnat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We agree with the chief of the Capitol Police and the wide range of bipartisan lawmakers who have condemned this false depiction of the unprecedented, violent attack on our Constitution and the rule of law – which cost police officers their lives, we also agree with what Fox News’s own attorneys and executives have now repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law: That Tucker Carlson is not credible.

White House

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Any attempt to normalize what was a violent attack on the United States Capitol only makes it more intriguing for people to do such a thing in the future.

Mitt Romney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Right now, our immediate concerns are the safe return of our citizens, the health and the well-being of those who survived this attack.

John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A group of violent agitators used the cover of a peaceful protest of the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center to conduct a coordinated attack on construction equipment and police officers.

Atlanta Police Department

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The number is small, and weighing that against a heart attack, I think most people would say, ‘OK I’d rather have a little gout attack,’.

Steven Nissen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think what insurance companies need to recognize that even though this drug is going to cost more than statins, having a heart attack or a stroke or needing a stent is expensive. A 23% reduction in (myocardial infarctions) is a considerable reduction.

Howard Weintraub

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Specifically, patients who received the stem cell therapy were less likely to have a heart attack or stroke over the next 2.5 years, especially among those who were found to have a high degree of systemic inflammation as measured by a laboratory test.

Brett Victor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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