noun
definition
A fierce attack.
synonyms
definition
A large number of people or things resembling an attack.
example
They opened the doors and prepared for the onslaught of holiday shoppers.
Examples of onslaught in a Sentence
Her voice was sharp enough to parry his verbal onslaught.
Philip Augustus made a vigorous onslaught on.
The scent of burning flesh filled the hall, and she shuddered beneath the onslaught of rain and wind.
Music has survived the latest onslaught, being the least changed of all the curriculum areas.
Once you do adopt your baby, get ready for the onslaught of questions that will follow.
Percy received the fugitives within a hollow square, checked the onslaught for a time with two field-pieces, used the Munroe Tavern for a hospital, and later in the day carried his command with little further injury back to Boston.
Czerno trailed a finger down the side of her face, his chilling smile and the onslaught of visions making her gasp.
I'd planned for some sort of onslaught, not to find you slung over the shoulder of your brother – the wrong brother, though I guess that's the most I can expect out of a half-breed.
There was a propaganda onslaught, financed by the tax payer, to persuade the British people to change their minds.
But, while readily acknowledged, they quickly fade from mind before the onslaught of one-dimensional, causal thinking.
Over 800 British fighter aircraft were sent to help Stalin against the German onslaught?
Around 12,000 Scots were killed in the battle, mainly under the heavy onslaught of the English archers.
Another point to note is the sinisterly continuing propaganda onslaught on Sudan to justify an imperialist blitzkrieg military intervention.
Firstly, the onslaught on democratic practices is creating a new kind of authoritarianism, masked by Orwellian newspeak.
Now it was the turn of Leros to try to withstand the German onslaught.
Most of the young men never survived the next onslaught.
The relentless onslaught is almost too much for Wonder Woman to bear!
There's an onslaught of double kick that contrasts with the vocals that follow, the only traditional melodic vocal on the disk.
The constable was killed in the first onslaught; Clement was imprisoned in the castle of St Angelo; Rome was abandoned to the rage of 30,000 ruffians.
Henceforth he was bitterly but unjustly accused of want of patriotism, and in 1738 was compelled at last to retire before the impetuous onslaught of the triumphant young Hat party.
Despite such a determined onslaught, BSL has resisted countless attempts to suppress it.
Pearl 's father embodies the bitterness and disorientation that gripped Southern slaveholders forced to come to grips with Sherman 's powerful onslaught.
There 's an onslaught of double kick that contrasts with the vocals that follow, the only traditional melodic vocal on the disk.
Superior pack power and weight advantage saw the Lions withstand an onslaught from the spirited French team who were pushing hard for penalties.
This can really test the integrity of a cat's digestion, and the simplest solution to a stomach that simply cannot handle such an onslaught is vomiting.
You may find yourself with an onslaught of tomatoes in August or green beans in July.
In fact, other than the presence of our arch nemesis (and an onslaught of other foes to boot), this need not be a hedgehog related game at all.
Defend yourself from an onslaught of asteroids and alien ships in this spaced-out title.
Keep reading and discover an onslaught of cheats and unlockables.
Play as one of over 30 characters, join the pod races or battle a droid onslaught in Lego Star Wars.
However, the onslaught of criticism from the Republican Party, as well as insurance industry lobbyists, combined with the complexity of the plan itself, ultimately destroyed the plan within a year.
Storm by Suzanne Fisher Staples How could the loyalty of a childhood friendship withstand the onslaught of adult hypocrisy and racism?
There was a clear handball by a Preston player in that final onslaught which was missed by a below par Howard Webb.
Secondly, on measures to be taken to help Russia to resist the hideous onslaught which Hitler has made upon her; thirdly.
That he had to suffer the onslaught of Rob Dixon's crazy logic in the dispute over first place was a great shame.
He wants the believers to be able to face the onslaught of false teachers triumphantly.
The church has not escaped the onslaught of the expert mentality.
Can Christie survive the ferocious onslaught leveled against him.
Following the imperialist onslaught in Iraq, Cuba is under threat of invasion by the US.
Undoubtedly there will be a propaganda onslaught, financed by the tax payer, to persuade the British people to change their minds.
For five months, a concerted media onslaught launched against republicans followed the Northern Bank robbery and the murder of Robert McCartney in Belfast.
The DH Productions ' " Stable of Knuckleheads " are back with yet another heavy metal onslaught of broken bikes, bones and blood.
A year later, a new media onslaught has begun against Venezuela.
Pearl's father embodies the bitterness and disorientation that gripped southern slaveholders forced to come to grips with Sherman's powerful onslaught.
Dryden acknowledged, in the preface to his Fables, the justice of Collier's strictures, though he protested against the manner of the onslaught; 1 but Congreve made an angry reply; Vanbrugh and others followed.
In the first he extemporized in succession a Latin poem, a daring onslaught on Aristotelian ignorance, and an oration in praise of ignorance.
The appearance, in September 1604, of a new star in the constellation Serpentarius afforded him indeed an opportunity, of which he eagerly availed himself, for making an onslaught upon the Aristotelian axiom of the incorruptibility of the heavens; but he continued to conform his public teachings in the main to Ptolemaic principles, until the discovery of a novel and potent implement of research in the shape of the telescope placed at his command startling and hitherto unsuspected evidence as to the constitution and mutual relations of the heavenly bodies.
Summertime brought bright, cheery colors; springtime introduced an onslaught of animal-print tools; and winter is all about darks and dramatics.
As a result, Paquin and her family were unprepared for the onslaught of offers that suddenly came their way.
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