strafe

Example Sentences

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The missiles weren’t fired into a landscape that had already been strafed by gunfire.

From Washington Post

This week, however, as Russia strafed Ukrainian cities and world leaders moved to impose sanctions, Volkswagen said the impact to its business in Russia would be “continuously determined by a crisis team.”

From New York Times

It comes with toppings, decorous or wanton, as you wish: almonds and grated coconut for crunch, sweet-sour currants, nubs of bacon like a strafe of salt.

From New York Times

“When I swung in over the stage to land,” he told me, he nearly strafed the tuxedo-clad musicians and sent them scurrying.

From Washington Post

Coalition forces used Hellfire missiles and larger munitions and strafing runs by Apache helicopters, a coalition official said.

From Washington Post