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Example sentences for "serious attack"

  • They were prepared, therefore, for a serious attack; they only mistook the real nature of it, and counted on having to fight rather with man than the elements.

  • The prince had contemplated with anxiety the approach of this season, lest it should prove highly destructive to the work he had undertaken, and afford the enemy a favorable opportunity for making a serious attack upon it.

  • They found the enemy too strong to justify a serious attack.

  • In reality, however, the Brenn did not anticipate any serious attack on that side, which was difficult of approach.

  • Lulled by a prolonged security, you are not in a condition to resist a serious attack.

  • For a full hour the Prussian battalions in first line were scourged with rifle fire in front and flank, and pelted by a hail-storm of projectiles, but no serious attack occurred.

  • Strong columns also advanced along the right bank of the Moselle, but nowhere attempted a serious attack.

  • The French army did not yet on this day undertake a serious attack.

  • The French tried to hold the cuttings on the greatly broken up roads; but they nowhere awaited a serious attack, and made off, for the most part in carts which were in waiting.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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