How to Use air raid in a Sentence

air raid

noun

• Much of the city was destroyed in an air raid.
• Just over two months earlier, an air raid targeting rebels in the surrounding mountains struck their house.
  — TIME.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• The air raid came a day after Khawla said his fighters would not let Syrian government forces cross the Euphrates.
  — Author: Ellen Francis, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Sep. 2017
• After escaping from captivity with the help of a Nazi air raid, the dictator had Ciano tried for treason.
  — Mraz, Town & Country, 1 Feb. 2012
• In front of the collapsed buildings of the capital, historic statues have been stained with red paint, in memory of the hundreds of civilians killed by the Saudi military coalition’s air raids.
  — TIME.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• On their last night in Lviv, the trio heard air raid sirens go off in the city.
  — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2023
• Back in Chicago, at 10:30 p.m., the air raid sirens jumped to life.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
• Cooper’s show opened with the sound of an air raid siren.
  — AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• As the leaders left the church, the air raid sirens rang out overhead.
  — Matt Viser and Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
• The two men were taking a late night walk in the park, when the air raid sirens went off.
  — Rebecca Hazen, Houston Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
• Jolie and her aides had to leave when air raid sirens began to sound.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 2 May 2022
• But her tirade was cut short by the piercing wail of an air raid siren.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• The flip side of the air raid at last year's A-Day was an indictment of the secondary.
  — Michael Casagrande, AL.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• At least eight people were killed there as air raid sirens filled the streets.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2022
• Footage from the area showed bodies strewn across the floor of an air raid shelter.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
• Cars, trains and ships sounded their horns and air raid sirens wailed.
  — NBC News, 4 Apr. 2020
• The sound of the air raid siren continues in your head even in silence.
  — Julia Kafizova, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2022
• Between the air raid sirens, amid updates from the front, there grows what saves.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2022
• Martha, you were awakened by air raid sirens last night.
  — ABC News, 13 Mar. 2022
• There are a lot of cases when an air raid was about to occur and Churchill would go to the roof and watch.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2020
• My first night back in the country, in that region, the air raid sirens sounded.
  — Bytom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 11 May 2022
• An air raid begins, and a screen of fighters need to escort the bomber fleet.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2017
• The incoming attack set off air raid sirens in the Golan.
  — Zeina Karam and Aron Heller, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2018
• At one point, workers had to pause their search and move out as an air raid siren went off.
  — Susan Archer, NBC News, 28 June 2022
• A week later, twelve guests at a wedding were killed in an air raid.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• The gifts were made in memory of his sister, Ruth, who at 19 was killed in an air raid near the end of the war.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
• This will be a clash of styles between slow-paced KP and Franklin’s air raid offense.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• The second air raid siren of the day whines as Zinovii stands outside church with his son.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2022
• The nascent ground operation in Lebanon has already proved costlier, in terms of Israeli military casualties, than the prior air raids and special ops.
  — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2024
• Hezbollah meanwhile fired more rockets into Israel, including two that set off air raid sirens in Tel Aviv before being intercepted.
  — Mohammed Zaatari and Kareem Chehayeb, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024