How to Use air force in a Sentence

air force

noun

• The air force said an inquiry has been ordered into the accident.
  — Sheikh Saaliq and Ashok Sharma, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2021
• But several Afghan air force pilots have been killed by the Taliban this year.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2021
• China's air force is converting obsolete fighter jets into drones.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Nov. 2021
• The production model of the Taiwanese air force’s new training jet flew for the first time in late October.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• In Ukraine, the country’s air force said air defenses had shot down 24 of 28 drones launched overnight against Ukraine.
  — Samya Kullab and Elise Morton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
• The position was set up with the aim of integrating India’s three military services — the army, the navy and the air force.
  — NBC News, 8 Dec. 2021
• Taiwan deployed its air force Sunday in an effort to drive back dozens of Chinese aircraft that entered its air defense space.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2021
• This could cause a foreign air force, like Taiwan's, to scramble together fighters to meet them, pulling the planes away from other, more important missions.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Nov. 2021
• His primary task was to overhaul the military, which has struggled to modernize and improve coordination among the army, navy and air force.
  — chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• Notice, too, how Xi blames Taiwan for cross-strait tensions even as his air force violates Taiwanese airspace with impunity.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 20 Nov. 2021
• His journey to San Antonio began a week later with a Greyhound bus that stopped at air force base in Oklahoma.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Dec. 2021
• Israel's military said the missile was successfully intercepted by the country's air force.
  — NBC News, 8 Oct. 2024
• The Su-34 was supposed to change the Russian air force—and the Su-34M, even more so.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• The news of the new heads of the army, navy and air force came amid the roar of supporters.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 26 June 2024
• Arce also announced new heads of the navy and the air force.
  — Tara John, CNN, 27 June 2024
• Read full article The air force said the pilots, aged 34 and 27, both died in the crash.
  — Michael Varaklas and Derek Gatopoulos, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
• Despite the ban, Japan still maintains land, sea, and air forces.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2023
• The Ukrainian air force said the military downed 20 Shahed drones in the evening.
  — Susie Blann, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• Ukraine’s air force, and should have defeated it in the opening days of the conflict.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2022
• The Russian air force doesn't have free rein over the entire country.
  — CBS News, 8 May 2022
• The Ukraine air force said half of the 32 missiles were intercepted.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
• Israel has tanks, an air force, and the most advanced weapons systems in the world, plus the support of the United States.
  — Foreign Affairs, 9 Nov. 2023
• Ukraine's air force said the missiles were fired by long-range bombers that took off from a Russian air base north of Ukraine.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 28 June 2022
• The aging MiG-29 is the Ukrainian air force’s most numerous type.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• And tracked Israeli air force planes streaking to their Hamas targets in Gaza.
  — Greg Palkot, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2023
• Churchill’s soaring rhetoric and the might of the navy, air force and empire that gave force to his words, enabled the country to go on with the struggle.
  — Michael F. Bishop, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
• Now, the Ukrainian air force says the Ghost of Kyiv never existed.
  — NBC News, 2 May 2022
• What’s more, Ukraine’s standing army is just a quarter of Russia’s, and its air force, less than a tenth.
  — Valerie Morkevicius, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2022
• Perhaps a Cold War-vintage S-200 that the Ukrainian air force pulled out of long-term storage.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Biden has already blocked a plan by Poland to send Soviet-era jets to the Ukrainian air force.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024