How to Use air strike in a Sentence

air strike

noun
  • That air strike killed 25 civilians in Belgorod, according to Moscow.
    Harold Maass, The Week Us, theweek, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Early in the morning on February 12th, an air strike hit the building across the street from the family’s shelter.
    Claire Porter Robbins, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2024
  • His relatives have told him his brother survived the air strike, but was injured.
    NBC News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The final air strike came after the Chargers struggled to find their alignment when Green Bay’s offense went with no huddle.
    Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Antennas are like flagsticks for enemy drones, and Boyko had already been the victim of an air strike in Tabaivka that nearly killed him.
    Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • This year, Sandworm was revealed to have carried out a third blackout cyberattack against a Ukrainian electric utility, this time in the midst of a Russian air strike hitting the same city.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Thirty-seven members of his extended family had been killed in an Israeli air strike on a Palestinian refugee camp.
    USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2024
  • More than 160 people, including women and children, died in the air strike, with reports from CNN and the Guardian describing bodies burning on the ground and medical teams not immediately able to access the site due to planes flying overhead.
    WIRED, 17 Oct. 2023
  • This was especially true when recently, Hamas initiated a surprise air strike and ground-level attack on Israel, an act that resulted in at least 1,300 Israeli casualties.
    Michael Benedek, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023

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