How to Use air strike in a Sentence
air strike
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In another video, filmed by Agence France-Presse not long after the air strike, Layan’s face was mottled with burns.
— Longreads, 6 Aug. 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 -
An air strike earlier on a house in the camp killed at least 10 people and wounded many others, according to medics.
— Reuters, NBC News, 7 July 2024 -
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 -
Israeli fighter jets conducted an air strike in Yemen 10 days ago in retaliation for a Houthi drone attack on Tel Aviv.
— Barak Ravid, Axios, 30 July 2024 -
That air strike killed 25 civilians in Belgorod, according to Moscow.
— Harold Maass, The Week Us, theweek, 3 Jan. 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 -
Monday's barrage was the deadliest air strike in months, officials said, and a pointed message to the Western military alliance.
— Dan Morrison, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024 -
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 -
Israeli forces, which have deepened their incursions into Rafah, in the south of the enclave near the border with Egypt, killed four Palestinian policemen and wounded eight others, in an air strike on their vehicle on Saturday, health officials said.
— Reuters, NBC News, 7 July 2024 -
Tehran had deliberated for two weeks about how to react to an Israeli air strike that killed seven Iranian officers, including a top general, at the country's embassy in Damascus.
— Elliott Goat, The Week Uk, theweek, 15 Apr. 2024 -
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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