How to Use air force in a Sentence

air force

noun

• All three have served in their respective nations’ air forces.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
• The air force cited electronic countermeasures for the failure of those lost in flight.
  — David Brennan, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2024
• Ukraine's air force reported that 91 missiles and 97 drones were fired at the country overnight.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Nov. 2024
• Nguyen was a helicopter pilot for the South Vietnam air force when Saigon fell in 1975.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2021
• An earlier version of this story stated that the Nigerian air force had admitted civilians were killed in an airstrike.
  — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2021
• Most former air force pilots have also largely fled the country, terrified that the Taliban will hunt down and kill them for having supported the American side.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2021
• Japanese air force fighters—F-15s, apparently—sortied to keep tabs on the Chinese aircraft.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Its navy and air force comprise the first line of defense.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Oct. 2021
• Despite the ban, Japan still maintains land, sea, and air forces.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2023
• The Malaysian air force has opened a tender for 36 new light fighters.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• When the family arrived in Germany for a stopover, Joshua Mast and his wife greeted them at the air force base.
  — Dallas News, 24 Oct. 2022
• The attack combined a swarm of drones and a volley of cruise missiles, the Ukrainian air force said on Facebook.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024