Use "onslaughts" in a sentence

1. And they grew, which not only effectively camouflaged my residence, but also provided it with a shield of sorts against the onslaughts of hurricanes, which I would learn were a fairly regular occurrence on the island

2. The general collapse brought on by those onslaughts initiated the greatest of all the tribulations that the Christians had, in one way or another, weathered up to that time

3. The intricacies of the sword were as useless against his primitive fury as a human boxer's skill against the onslaughts of a panther

4. fore the death of his mortal body, acquires the ability to withstand the onslaughts of passion and anger, and conquers them for ever

5. onslaughts of men who are-as it were-intoxicated and out of their senses

6. I made to ask Ben aloud, even to the hearing of my husband, what wrong have I done to him as to necessitate his onslaughts; his cynical vengeance against me, his best friend, his sister and brethren; his Angel

7. I was haunted by the image of the eight beds waiting in my garret for me, and of certain portions of the wall from which the paper was torn--the summer before, probably, by one or more of the eight struggling in the first onslaughts of asphyxia--and had not been gummed on again

8. As a result of his indecisiveness, free from the continuous furious onslaughts of Impetus going through her, and around her and through her an infinite number of times, Formlessness was able to catch her breath a bit and slow down

9. For a moment there would come a lull in the storm, but then it would swoop down again with such onslaughts that it seemed impossible to stand against it

10. The Schaefer family interests were left with a large ownership interest in and control of a financially weakened company that was not as well prepared to meet competitive onslaughts as it might otherwise have been

11. Intending that it serve as refuge for the great port’s inhabitants against future onslaughts by Anglaterrano and Gallego corsairs as well as a stronghold, she dug a network of passageways and chambers deep into the white limestone of the bluffs at Bahía Alegre’s east end