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

He would often try to drive me away, come strafing and threatening, and an alarming thing about that is their flight is completely silent.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2023

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

With mortar fire, he also provided vital cover for an American pilot who had crash-landed his plane on the airfield after strafing the enemy and who was eventually pulled to safety by other soldiers.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2020

Alvarez sped over the pier again, strafing the bigger ship from barely a hundred feet above the water.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin