air raid
Example Sentences
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“There was very little time between the air raid alert and the explosions,” Petrov said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Oleksandr Avstriievskykh, 65, was in his fifth-floor apartment around midnight when the air raid siren went off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Marines were dropped into Beirut and Grenada, and finally, details how the U.S. launched air raid attacks on Libya in 1986.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
The overnight air raid is the first major attack on the Ukrainian capital in more than two weeks.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
An air raid had shattered all the louvers in the windows of the theater and the evening breeze blew some of the actors’ words away.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
