air strike

noun

: an attack in which military airplanes drop bombs

The strategy calls for air strikes on key targets.

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Another of the Party’s earliest members, the senior commander Fuad Shukr, who was killed in an Israeli air strike in July, also hailed from Al-Nabi Chit. —

Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024 One air strike reduced an Ottoman-era building across from the Palmyra to rubble, covering the first floor of the hotel in debris and blowing out the three windows overlooking the balcony. —

Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 During his first term in office, in 2020, Trump ordered a U.S. air strike that killed Iran's top military commander, Qassem Soleimani. —

Trevor Hunnicutt and Steve Holland, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024 The air strike that follows might kill everyone in the target's family, if not everyone in the apartment building. —

Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for air strike