How to Use civil defense in a Sentence

civil defense

noun

• She's in training to be part of the local civil defense.
• The bodies are strewn in the streets for 4 to 5 (days), maybe a week, and no civil defense can evacuate them.
  — Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN, 12 July 2024
• The past four days have also seen artillery fire, the civil defense added.
  — Eyad Kourdi, CNN, 25 June 2023
• His eldest son, who’d also been out with a civil defense unit, died in the blast.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2020
• The shelters were only a part of the civil defense network.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• The fire was put out by 16 civil defense brigades, according to the statement.
  — Qassim Abdul-Zahra, ajc, 17 Nov. 2022
• The agency’s name would change over the years, but civil defense adapted to the evolving threats of the 20th century.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 10 Nov. 2020
• Talk of old-style civil defense sirens to warn of fast-moving wildfires.
  — Mark Thiessen, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2023
• For children who grew up during the Cold War era, civil defense training was part of going to school.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2020
• Is there, like, a ready-to-go army or civil defense that’s in all the different tissues looking for any kind of trouble?
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• As Lebanese and foreign civil defense teams comb through Beirut’s rubble, no one here knows the true number of missing.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2020
• Of course, in 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor earlier in the month, civil defense was on the minds of many in the community.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 25 Dec. 2020
• For nearly 20 years, Bailey has been a civil defense trial lawyer in Huntsville.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 2 Sep. 2022
• Taiwan has put its military on alert and staged civil defense drills, while the U.S. has numerous naval assets in the area.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
• Two days after the explosion, a French rescue team and Lebanese civil defense volunteers had searched the same building, which had a bar on the ground floor.
  — Bloomberg.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• Some of the deaths were caused by landslides in the greater Recife area, in Pernambuco state, according to the local civil defense.
  — Cnn's Marcelo Medeiros, CNN, 29 May 2022
• The civil defense office in the western state of Jalisco said Wednesday the first American suffered bites to his legs, arm, abdomen and chest.
  — CBS News, 21 July 2022
• Imad Ibrahim, a civil defense rescuer from west Mosul, survived the battle to retake the city and is now tasked with excavating the dead.
  — chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• At a civil defense training, civilians of all ages learn how to load guns, use Kalashnikov rifles and throw grenades, as well as pick up some basic first aid skills.
  — Anja Rubik, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2022
• This is often voiced by the doctors and civil defense volunteers.
  — Kiran Nazish, Slate Magazine, 12 May 2017
• Iran has armed 51 cities and towns with a civil defense system aimed to respond to any foreign attack as tensions with the U.S. have mounted in recent weeks.
  — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 3 Sep. 2022
• Gantz echoed the threats and implored the public to follow civil defense measures, such as gathering in shelters.
  — Zev Chafets, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
• Brazil’s civil defense agency said some of the affected areas saw more than 23 inches of rainfall in 24 hours.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
• Taiwan has put its military on alert and staged civil defense drills, while the U.S. has deployed numerous naval assets in the area.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Aug. 2022
• Firefighters and civil defense teams worked with a helicopter to recover the remains from the gorge.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
• The state's civil defense reported that nearly half of its 497 cities have been affected.
  — Fox News, 3 May 2024
• Taiwan has put its military on alert and staged civil defense drills, but the overall mood remained calm on Friday.
  — Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2022
• The elderly man who lives in front of them was being rescued by civil defense workers, who carried him atop a dining room chair.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
• Images shared by Palestinian civil defense groups showed teams in Rafah and Gaza City working to rescue people trapped in the debris.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
• Firefighters, military police and the civil defense authority all dispatched teams to the crash site.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024