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
  • Someone with an assaultive crime can have up to two felonies and four misdemeanors set aside.
    — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Why are people choosing to take this kind of assaultive conduct towards others?
    — Fox News, 10 Apr. 2018
  • This could feel more assaultive than hearing them separately.
    — New York Times, 17 May 2022
  • Corigliano’s symphony is assaultive in style and confrontational in intent.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • That cliché has become an assaultive and overly programmed way of doling out The Hand Of Fate.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Her real harassers were a prurient media and psychically assaultive public.
    — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 14 Mar. 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
  • Once outside, individuals refused to leave the area and became assaultive with officers.
    — Michael Lee, Washington Examiner, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Surely all three of these works are meant to be ingratiating, not assaultive — with a bit more intellectual content to the Brahms.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 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
  • How many times, in the throes of his illness, had he been taken into custody by police, accused of lewd or assaultive behavior, and locked in psych wards, only to be let out within days?
    — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Most assaultive crimes would not be eligible for automatic expungement.
    — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 17 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • As a figure of immense, almost assaultive generosity, who could unleash, in us, bombastic yet utterly sincere gratitude.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 21 June 2018
  • The prosecutor also argued the incident was not the first for Veney involving alcohol or assaultive behavior.
    — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
  • Turfe said the majority of the youths in the facility are accused of serious assaultive crimes and are sometimes rival gang members, complicating the process of releasing kids from their rooms.
    — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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