How to Use antiaircraft in a Sentence

antiaircraft

noun

• And for about an hour there was antiaircraft firing all over the place.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2021
• Russia claimed that the booms from the strike were the sound of successful antiaircraft fire.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2022
• Ukraine’s allies, led by the United States and Britain, have stepped up their supplies of tanks and antiaircraft weapons.
  — Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2022
• One night, she was ordered to go on the rooftop and shine a beacon on Allied bombers so antiaircraft guns could shoot them down.
  — WSJ, 8 Aug. 2017
• The errant antiaircraft round gouged the building in 1942.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 14 June 2018
• The three men found guilty—two Russians and one Ukrainian—were involved in the deployment of the Buk antiaircraft missile launcher used to shoot down the jet, the court said.
  — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• Two artillery pieces and an antiaircraft weapon were destroyed, the statement said, and a tank damaged.
  — Nicholas Blanford, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2017
• Elgin flew when antiaircraft was legal and there was no such thing as giving up a layup.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2021
• Those include more antiaircraft guns acquired since the mission to buy one back.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2021
• Rugu forest had seized an antiaircraft gun in a clash with a military unit.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2021
• During the next two months, 50 drones recorded 31 hits on other antiaircraft sites, bridges, airfields and ships that had run aground.
  — Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2017
• Syrian regime forces hit one of the Israeli F-16s with antiaircraft fire.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2018
• Also in the Kherson region, Ukraine claimed to have used antiaircraft missiles to shoot down a Russian Su-35 fighter jet that had planned to attack its planes.
  — Susie Blann, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
• Some put the failure down to the cheap antiaircraft missiles Western militaries have supplied to Kyiv.
  — Brad Lendon and Ivan Watson, CNN, 31 May 2022
• Stinger antiaircraft missiles could also be valuable for staving off the Chinese air force.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2022
• But before graduation he was told there were too many antiaircraft officers and was sent back to the 320th for training as a medic.
  — Washington Post, 4 July 2019
• But fearing retribution, Joseph joined the Hitler Youth, as did many other teenagers, and was assigned to an antiaircraft brigade.
  — Henry Chudeputy News Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• Devitt dropped his own plane to near tree-top level to avoid antiaircraft fire, breaking out over Utah Beach moments later.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Mar. 2018
• Bob Frost, a rear-gunner whose Wellington bomber was shot down by antiaircraft fire in 1942 while on a raid aimed at the German industrial city of Essen.
  — Phil Davison, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2020
• Ukraine International Flight 752 was en route to Kyiv when it was brought down by an antiaircraft missile on Jan. 8.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2020
• The United States has been strongly opposed, fearing that antiaircraft weapons could fall into the hands of the country’s extremist groups.
  — Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2018
• Abut a year later, while on his first combat mission over Wake Island, his bomber was hit by antiaircraft fire and was almost shot down on Christmas Day.
  — Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• True to her name, Flak-Bait returned home from nearly every mission with holes punctured in its metal skin from antiaircraft fire, or flak.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2020
• The older teachers, including the rector, who helped operate an antiaircraft gun in the war, sided with him.
  — James Angelos, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
• In the late 1970s, the rickety passenger airplanes that landed in Salisbury, as Harare was then known, did so in a steep and gut-wrenching spiral to avoid antiaircraft missiles.
  — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• Lancers are not stealthy, so they have been built to be maneuverable enough to dodge antiaircraft missiles—or flying kaiju, if that becomes an issue.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2018
• If the Russian site is a potential target that requires antiaircraft defenses, what does that make the ruins?
  — Andrew E. Kramer and Sewell Chan, New York Times, 18 May 2016
• Litterst also pointed out a baseball-size gouge in the marble of the penthouse’s ornate outer wall that was made by an errant antiaircraft bullet in 1942.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 14 June 2018
• Ukraine also needs antiaircraft and attack missiles to strike fast-moving airborne targets.
  — Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
• Ignoring pleas from around the world, Taliban fighters detonated explosives and fired antiaircraft guns to smash the immense sixth-century reliefs to pieces.
  — Rick Noack, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024