How to use "onslaught" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "onslaught" in popular movie and book plots

  • The fourth and fifth sec hunters do not activate, and Ryan cautiously departs with the hope that the onslaught is over.  - Chill Factor (novel)
  • Having never anticipated the attack of a dragon, the castle's guards are no match for the terrific onslaught and many are slain.  - Startling Odyssey
  • The undead horde with Catapults trails him and unleashes an onslaught against the tower.  - Heroes of Annihilated Empires
  • But what started as a noble and courageous effort to stop the onslaught of crime soon spiraled out of control.  - The Red Spectacles
  • The lively celebration awakened the dormant spirits, who sought to begin their onslaught once again.  - Hunter: The Reckoning (video game)
  • Before long, the sky is darkened by a hideous onslaught of screeching birds.  - The Birds II: Land's End
  • The surviving residents are forced to wall themselves in against the onslaught of bound creatures.  - Dungeon Siege II: Broken World
  • The few citizens who survived Union Lizard's onslaught of chaos are now kept prisoners by its members.  - Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi
  • The story follows Sholl, a man living in London soon after a convulsive onslaught by unearthly beings.  - The Tain (novella)
  • Keane prepares his men for the onslaught as they had at Gettysburg.  - Rally Cry
  • The group is threatened by the onslaught of sliders, mutated jellyfish which can possess the bodies of other organisms.  - Just a Pilgrim
  • Their work is interrupted by a Soviet army onslaught that produces heavy Japanese casualties and the death of Kageyama.  - The Human Condition (film series)
  • Since none of their weapons can match the range of a fire-swinger, the Redwallers are defenseless against the onslaught of missiles.  - Mariel of Redwall
  • But the question remains: Will mankind suffer another onslaught by the desperate aliens.  - Kronos (film)
  • At the Hornburg, the army of Rohan led by King Théoden and Aragorn resist a full-scale onslaught by the hosts of Saruman.  - The Two Towers
  • Taraza offers full alliance with them against the onslaught of forces out of the Scattering.  - Heretics of Dune

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