ONSET in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for ONSET, such as:

1. It was the signal for their onset.
2. It gave under my desperate onset and turned over.
3. The drug must be taken from the onset of the infection.
4. The onset of depression often follows a traumatic event.
5. Her life was finally extinguished by the onset of liver complaint.

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 Meanings and Examples of ONSET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
onset
 n.  beginning or early stages; offensive against enemy
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Hence grew the ill opinion entertained in Rome of Fabius Maximus, who could never persuade the people that it behoved them to proceed warily in their conflict with Hannibal, and withstand his onset without fighting.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LIII.
2  For though it be furnished with arms it is easily subdued, if you have some place of strength wherein to shelter from its first onset.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LVII.
3  In this way they often succeeded in carrying towns, and even great towns, at a first onset, as when Scipio took new Carthage in Spain.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXXII.
4  When Camillus, as already related, went forth to meet the Etruscans, his soldiers on seeing the great army of their enemy, were filled with fear, thinking themselves too to withstand its onset.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXI.
5  Those armies which do otherwise are not true armies, and if ever they have any success, it is owing to the fury and impetuosity of their onset and not to trained and steady valour.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXVI.
6  Meanwhile, Stubb retaining his place in the van, still encouraged his men to the onset, all the while puffing the smoke from his mouth.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
7  Encouraged by this slight advantage, the impetuous young man continued his onset, and sprang upon his enemy with naked hands.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
8  The Delawares broke into the cover with the ferocity of their natures and swept away every trace of resistance by the fury of the onset.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
9  The onset and the issue were like the passage and destruction of a whirlwind.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
10  A few minutes pause having been allowed, that the combatants and their horses might recover breath, Prince John with his truncheon signed to the trumpets to sound the onset.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  Each stem was wrenched at the root, where it moved like a bone in its socket, and at every onset of the gale convulsive sounds came from the branches, as if pain were felt.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
12  It gave under my desperate onset and turned over.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
13  'General d'Epinay passed for one of the best swordsmen in the army, but he was pressed so closely in the onset that he missed his aim and fell.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 75. A Signed Statement.
14  I had such implicit confidence in her declaration, that I then put it to Mr. Peggotty, whether it would not seem, in the onset, like distrusting her, to follow her any farther.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
15  It was the signal for their onset.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  The drug must be taken from the onset of the infection.
2  The onset of depression often follows a traumatic event.
3  Her life was finally extinguished by the onset of liver complaint.
4  "An early summer onset is clearly no guarantee of a barbeque summer," the scientists say.
5  At the onset of the Inquisition, the heretical priest was forced to flee the country.