How to Use assaultive in a Sentence

assaultive

adjective

• Not to worry, wobbles and assaultive basslines are on their way.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 12 Jan. 2018
• The movie is smart, lavish and fun without being assaultive.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 Feb. 2018
• Someone with an assaultive crime can have up to two felonies and four misdemeanors set aside.
  — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2019
• After several turns in the forest, the trail empties back into the open ridge, a change so sudden, the light is initially assaultive.
  — Michael J. Bailey, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
• Why are people choosing to take this kind of assaultive conduct towards others?
  — Fox News, 10 Apr. 2018
• A copy of the the patient's latest treatment plan at Whiting, which Kangas provided to The Courant, also said the patient has been assaultive and difficult to engage.
  — Josh Kovner, courant.com, 11 May 2017
• None of the offenses can be assaultive, involve the use or possession of a dangerous weapon, or carry a maximum penalty of 10 or more years in prison.
  — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2021
• None of the offenses could be assaultive, involve the use or possession of a dangerous weapon, or carry a maximum penalty of 10 or more years in prison.
  — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2020
• But lawmakers and officials stressed that the review is part of a push to boost security by working to remove assaultive youth.
  — Meagan Flynn, Houston Chronicle, 22 Jan. 2018
• But Luisi and the orchestra gave it assiduous attention, and in an age of so much assaultive new music, a dreamy escape was welcome.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 5 Feb. 2021
• No more than two assaultive crimes can be expunged, and no more than one felony conviction for the same offense if the offense is punishable by more than 10 years imprisonment.
  — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2021
• As the action, camerawork, and editing in many Hollywood films have become more assaultive on the senses, the soundtracks have followed suit.
  — Janet Malcolm, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2019
• This could feel more assaultive than hearing them separately.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2022
• Given that, the airlines' move to cut off alcohol access decreases the odds of some anti-masker transitioning from being a foul jerk to an assaultive felon.
  — Robert Sapolsky, CNN, 9 June 2021
• In response to these assaultive actions, MPD deployed crowd control tools that included tear gas in an effort to stop the riotous behavior and protect both officers and others in the area.
  — Washington Post, 9 June 2021
• These conditions would apply: no more than two assaultive crimes could be set aside, and no more than one felony conviction for the same offense if the offense is punishable by more than 10 years imprisonment.
  — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2020
• These conditions apply: no more than two assaultive crimes can be expunged, and no more than one felony conviction for the same offense if the offense is punishable by more than 10 years imprisonment.
  — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2020
• The execution of this dastardly plot, as the movie presents it in CGI-heavy hyperreality, is harrowing and assaultive.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 11 July 2019
• That’s partly because punk, with its assaultive immediacy and defiant not-niceness, now seems like the quintessence of the pre-digital world.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 July 2022
• His sexist wisecracks, wise-guy sneers, and salesman’s banter are as colorful as his assaultive obscenities.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 30 June 2019
• But gentleness emerged at every juncture, as if inviting the audience to consider the concert hall a sanctuary, a place of refuge within an often assaultive outside world.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2019
• Once outside, individuals refused to leave the area and became assaultive with officers.
  — Michael Lee, Washington Examiner, 6 Dec. 2020
• Over the last two years, Ev Bravado has become well known for his assaultive approach to denim — distressing it, embellishing it, embroidering it, giving it layers of depth.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2019
• For those who operate on any level of our public life, hear this: Some of our problems can be resolved or made less dramatic and assaultive by an old-fashioned concept that used to exist in American public life.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 31 May 2018
• Craig previously said that Davis had a history of violence, describing it as assaultive-type behavior, dating to when Davis was 15.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2019
• The difference is that those filmmakers have mostly moved on from this kind of assaultive bloodbath, which pummels you into numbness with its onslaught of glib dark comedy, escalating carnage and over-the-top gore.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2022
• Her real harassers were a prurient media and psychically assaultive public.
  — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
• Unlike Tár, whose heroic arrogance and dry cruelty leaps off the screen with assaultive realism, Max’s presence felt almost parodic.
  — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2022
• This tumultuous soundscape never feels needlessly assaultive or brutal—a tribute to Lim’s keen ear for instrumental writing and to her knack for tracing musical gestures that have the fluid shape of organic life.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
• Close associates of Deafheaven, Bosse-de-Nage pair black metal's assaultive rhythms with major-key melodies that make getting pummeled by crushing waves of noise into an oddly uplifting experience.
  — Miles Raymer, Esquire, 14 Dec. 2015

Last Updated: 12 Aug 2024