What's the difference between onrush and onslaught?
Onrush
Definition:
(n.) A rushing onward.
Example Sentences:
(1) Igor Vetokele won a penalty as he raced on to Jordan Cousins’ pass and was felled by the onrushing Watford goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes.
(2) Suarez found Henderson and his clever lob released the onrushing Allen, who was in behind the Chelsea defence.
(3) Berbatov is standing around trying to recall his favourite bit of Georges Perec's La disparition , and gets in the way of the onrushing Kasami, the big galoot.
(4) 28 min: Brave goalkeeping by Tim Howard, who dives at the feet of the onrushing Emile Heskey as the English striker slides in to try and get on the end of a wonderful James Milner cross from the right flank.
(5) 66 min: Jinking down the inside right channel, Arjen Robben skips past two defenders, prods the ball past Pepe and dances around the full-back to try to dink the ball over the onrushing Casillas.
(6) With that familiar unconcerned swagger, he waited to nick the ball clear of the onrushing striker before composing a more scenic route upfield.
(7) His deft chip over the onrushing Wayne Hennessey was worthy of the self-congratulatory salute that followed it at the corner flag.
(8) The full-back delivered a dangerous low ball across goal where Enner Valencia was well placed, but the onrushing striker could not make any contact.
(9) Jon Stead, a vibrant force up front all afternoon, squared the ball for the onrushing Mark Yeates, a Bradford substitute, and he despatched it with aplomb.
(10) It mattered not; Japan conjured the move of the game, a sweet inside ball to the onrushing wing Akihito Yamada creating space for the unstoppable Goromaru, playing his 53rd Test for his country, to score a try for the ages in the right corner.
(11) Rooney and Henrikh Mkhitaryan were the creators as the captain fashioned a slick swivel-and-pass to the Armenian, who then played a sweet left-foot back-heel into Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s path and the Swede dinked over the onrushing Adrián.
(12) A terrific low cross from Andy Robertson only narrowly evaded the onrushing Steven Fletcher.
(13) Platt, with six West German defenders surrounding him, waits and waits and then plays a smart pass in behind the defence for the onrushing Pearce.
(14) David Silva slipped a pass into the area for Yaya Toure, who simply shuffled it on to the onrushing Zabaleta, who had made a strong burst into the area.
(15) Davies played the ball straight to N’Golo Kanté and the former Leicester City midfielder slipped in Costa, who rounded the onrushing Marshall and shot on to the post, with Jake Livermore getting the faintest of touches as he desperately slid in front of his own goal.
(16) In the onrush of molecular-based phylogenetic hypotheses, previous morphological-based phylogenies are being ignored, discarded, or even treated with disdain.
(17) Waddle, on the right wing, flips a superb first-time return pass over the top for the onrushing Parker.
(18) Walters offered a passable impersonation of a raging bull throughout and was involved in the build-up, passing to Keane who supplied Aiden McGeady, and the winger's cross was met superbly by the onrushing Andrews.
(19) García was beaten far too easily in the air by Honda, who flicked the ball on for Tosic to lift his shot over the onrushing Hart and into the net.
(20) He fizzed it towards the far post with pace, accuracy and curl, a cross that was begging to be headed in by one of the onrushing Derby players and one that was almost impossible for QPR to defend.
Onslaught
Definition:
(n.) An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault.
(n.) A bloody fray or battle.
Example Sentences:
(1) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(2) It is the sort of malevolent onslaught that has caused many hardened media pundits to quake.
(3) Every couple of years, evidence emerges to underline the unparalleled nature of the state onslaught and ruthless rule-breaking to overcome resistance in the mining communities, bought at a cost of £37bn in today's prices .
(4) Even the deep cuts of the IMF visit period in the mid-1970s or Margaret Thatcher's spending onslaught of the early 1980s will have been less dramatic than what now lies ahead.
(5) My partner and I withstood the onslaught, but eventually the relationship crumbled under the pressure.
(6) Miraculously, it survived the various onslaughts, including a Supreme Court challenge, more or less intact and it should make a significant difference to women's health (pdf).
(7) Vastly outnumbered by the Kremlin's ground and air forces, the Georgian government announced it was pulling back its troops to defend the capital, Tbilisi, against a feared Russian onslaught.
(8) The late onslaught was the only spell in the entire match when Watford had attacked with any real momentum.
(9) It’s the continual onslaught that will eventually kill the reef.
(10) The way western politicians and media have pontificated about Israel's onslaught on Gaza, you'd think it was facing an unprovoked attack from a well-armed foreign power.
(11) The onslaught was triggered by the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr , a critic of the Saudi monarchy.
(12) The party still faces a barrage of tactical voting by the right and left to stop it winning final-round votes – described by one Lille party worker as “the onslaught of an armada”.
(13) The experts have always known they must make their work watertight against such an onslaught, and every conclusion made by the IPCC must pass scrutiny by all of the world's governments before it can be published.
(14) Today it is the BBC taking the onslaught as Dame Janet Smith’s report highlights decades of sexual abuse carried out by Jimmy Savile under the noses of senior managers – whom Smith kindly clears because they “generally did not hear rumours”.
(15) Amnesty International has called it an “onslaught on dissent” in the runup to elections next year.
(16) As the new year begins, Erdoğan appears set on strengthening his grip on power, by both democratic and undemocratic means, and pursuing his onslaught against the Kurds inside Turkey and in Syria.
(17) Determined to keep his party together ahead of an expected onslaught by MPs opposing the outline deal, Tsipras summoned his finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, and Nikos Filis, representative of the Syriza parliamentary group, to the Athens meeting, before a gathering of his parliamentary party on Tuesday.
(18) They took peaceful action on behalf of us all, standing up against destructive Arctic oil drilling and the onslaught of climate change.
(19) The strange thing is that the late onslaught that might have been expected never really materialised.
(20) This latest set of proposals is one part of a massive onslaught by Gordon Brown's hyperactive government on the recession.