sneak attack
Example Sentences
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They know that a full-out nuclear war would end civilization, so the risk isn’t so much a purposeful sneak attack by one country against one or two of the others, it’s a miscalculation.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
Moss was dressed all in black to hide his identity as he pretended to be a camera man and helped sidekick Happy Corbin sneak attack Kevin Owens.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
She exhibited strategic shrewdness as a general, cleverly thwarting an invader’s sneak attack with a preemptive ambush.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020
President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the Japanese sneak attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, a “date which will live in infamy.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2019
It is a reaction comparable to the way Americans might respond to someone who told them that World War II started in the Pacific after an American sneak attack on Tokyo harbor.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
