- present participle of strafe.
strafing
Example Sentences
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Hemsley and his fellow insurance CEOs also recently faced down testy members of Congress in two House hearings, taking a critical strafing from lawmakers of both parties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
Watching Lyonne’s heroine tap dance away from strafing fire gets old pretty fast, but at least Johnson and his writers realize that.
From Salon ● May 8, 2025
The rain blew harder, strafing the windows, and as brother and sister talked, at times teasing one another, they suggested they were learning that life comes in increments of loss and renewal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2025
In one of this book’s later interviews, with a Seventh-day Adventist magazine, Gregory advocates a raw food diet and does a strafing run over soul food.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2022
There was going to be air cover—dive- bombers and Hellcats on strafing runs, and B-24s from out of the Ellice Islands, right up to the point of attack.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
