bombing raid

noun

: a surprise attack in which bombs are used

Examples of bombing raid in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In Armadillo, meanwhile, a Danish officer provides cash to a man whose house was leveled and whose mother and daughter were killed in a NATO bombing raid. —Christopher Sims, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011

Although Ulm was destroyed by a World War II bombing raid in 1944, the church itself remained upright. —Stefanie Dazio and Pietro De Cristofaro, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024

There were firefighters tackling a blaze in the aftermath of a bombing raid. —Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024

Damaging factories or infrastructure inside Russia might help boost Ukrainian morale, for example, as a small U.S. bombing raid against Tokyo in 1942 did for American morale in World War II. —Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2024

The sixth of Masters of the Air’s nine episodes stays on the ground, following three characters on separate odysseys in the wake of last episode’s disastrous bombing raid. —Chris Klimek, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024

And the retreating Ukrainians may have fired the last major shots of the battle, targeting a trio of Russian air force fighter-bombers apparently angling for a bombing raid targeting the Ukrainian 110th Brigade and adjacent units. —David Axe, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024

The 100th, for instance, participated in its first bombing raid on June 25, just over two weeks after the men arrived in England. —Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024

Pressed by foreign journalists on civilian deaths in Gaza during a news conference Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pointed to a British bombing raid almost 80 years ago that killed children. —Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023

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