How to Use airpower in a Sentence

airpower

noun

• The Kurds didn’t have their own airpower; the Americans were in the fight.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• The context for this airpower surge is the same as always.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
• Plea for peace, threaten more airpower, or insist the main cities will hold?
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
• This may have been a sustainable project—the Taliban were unable to capture cities in the face of U.S. airpower.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• In the months leading up to the Normandy invasion, targets up and down the French coastline were bombed and strafed by allied airpower.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
• Dozens of people have already been killed in the fighting, which has involved artillery strikes and airpower.
  — The Economist, 28 Sep. 2020
• Kim Jong Un would be giving up the one thing that keeps him from being buried alive in a bunker by American airpower, all in exchange for a promise.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2018
• The regime also switched to the indiscriminate use of airpower.
  — Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2018
• So the motorcycles range out in front of the armored spearheads, in front of the airpower looking for weaknesses in the enemy lines.
  — Fox News, 23 Apr. 2018
• The eastern half of the city was recently liberated by Iraqi forces, helped by U.S. airpower.
  — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 19 Mar. 2017
• Knocking these down, or forcing them to fly farther behind friendly lines, would deal a major blow to U.S. airpower.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2019
• Assad’s forces, meanwhile, can now begin a potentially fierce fight to reclaim the city as a whole with the backing of Russian airpower.
  — Jared Malsin, Time, 5 Sep. 2017
• Removing the airpower option would be a foolhardy choice.
  — Dave Deptula, Forbes, 23 June 2021
• But because U.S. airpower is so overwhelming, even opponents who have jets have mostly chosen not to match them up with ours.
  — Heather Hurlburt, Daily Intelligencer, 19 June 2017
• Iraqis also say fighting for the dense, urban spaces of western Mosul requires more airpower, even if that means more civilians will die.
  — Tim Arango, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2017
• The Tatmadaw has the advantage of airpower and automatic weapons.
  — David Rising and, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2021
• Shane Arnott, who directs Boeing’s airpower teaming system program, said in a video.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 15 May 2020
• Israel is hardly the first country to err by placing excessive faith in the coercive magic of airpower.
  — Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2023
• And Gates nudged the Air Force earlier this month to think beyond high-end aerial combat when visualizing the future of airpower.
  — Spencer Ackerman, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2011
• The report makes clear that Turkey has only one real solution to maintain its airpower.
  — Michael Peck, Forbes, 4 May 2021
• At the core of this was the development of both a significant globe-spanning navy and, increasingly, airpower.
  — Robert Bateman, Esquire, 13 Apr. 2017
• Saeed Ahmad, a 25-year-old policeman in Arghandab, said his unit won’t hold out for long without airpower or a significant influx of heavy weaponry.
  — WSJ, 7 June 2021
• Large drones are easy enough to acquire or build that Ukrainian forces are not waiting for the military procurement process to deliver, but are assembling their own airpower on the spot.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• These flights remind everyone on the ground that American airpower is still overhead and can intervene in case fighting breaks out.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2021
• Just as airpower eventually killed off the great men-of-war that had ruled the waves for millennia, so cyberweapons might strip other weapons or tactics of their utility.
  — Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
• The incident was just the latest example of the Turkish Air Force brandishing its overwhelming airpower in cross-border raids.
  — Paul Iddon, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• At the same time, Iraqi government forces, also supported by U.S. advisers and airpower, would advance toward al-Qaim.
  — Washington Post, 20 May 2017
• American efforts to hunt down Islamists in Libya’s vast deserts rely heavily on surveillance and airpower but also on alliances with the armed groups vying for control of Libya.
  — Declan Walsh and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2018
• But since Ukraine began its major counteroffensive in June, both countries agree that Russia’s tactical airpower poses a growing problem for Ukraine’s ground forces.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023
• To the chagrin of airpower enthusiasts, those who opposed building out the army’s airpower capabilities had new evidence to stymie investment in aircraft when the game was over.
  — Jacquelyn Schneider, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 8 Aug 2024