How to Use air raid in a Sentence

air raid

noun

• Much of the city was destroyed in an air raid.
• Over the weekend, rights groups said that at least 22 people were killed in Russian and regime air raids.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 July 2019
• From the ground are heard the attendant booms, the wail of air raid sirens, and the beating of footsteps running to shelter.
  — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2024
• In her old age, during World War II, an air raid destroyed much of her work.
  — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2018
• Hezbollah kept up its rocket fire into Israel on Friday, setting off air raid sirens just north of Tel Aviv.
  — Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
• In a hilarious episode, a friend in the village convinces the Nazis that Ginzburg is a poor, sad refugee who has no papers because they were lost in an air raid.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
• Hezbollah kept up rocket fire into Israel on Thursday, setting off air raid sirens in parts of northern Israel.
  — Bilal Hussein, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
• Perhaps, Moritz said, some people would have received an earlier alert if fire stations or other town buildings were equipped with sirens similar to the ones used to warn of air raids or tornadoes.
  — Dianna M. Náñez, azcentral, 22 July 2019
• With air raid sirens wailing throughout southern Israel and the explosions of airstrikes thundering in Gaza, the sides had appeared to be headed to what would have been their fourth war in a decade.
  — Fares Akram, The Seattle Times, 13 Nov. 2018
• On their last night in Lviv, the trio heard air raid sirens go off in the city.
  — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2023
• Back in Chicago, at 10:30 p.m., the air raid sirens jumped to life.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
• Cooper’s show opened with the sound of an air raid siren.
  — AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• As the leaders left the church, the air raid sirens rang out overhead.
  — Matt Viser and Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
• Jolie and her aides had to leave when air raid sirens began to sound.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 2 May 2022
• At least eight people were killed there as air raid sirens filled the streets.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2022
• Cars, trains and ships sounded their horns and air raid sirens wailed.
  — NBC News, 4 Apr. 2020
• The sound of the air raid siren continues in your head even in silence.
  — Julia Kafizova, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2022
• Between the air raid sirens, amid updates from the front, there grows what saves.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2022
• Martha, you were awakened by air raid sirens last night.
  — ABC News, 13 Mar. 2022
• There are a lot of cases when an air raid was about to occur and Churchill would go to the roof and watch.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2020
• My first night back in the country, in that region, the air raid sirens sounded.
  — Bytom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 11 May 2022
• At one point, workers had to pause their search and move out as an air raid siren went off.
  — Susan Archer, NBC News, 28 June 2022
• A week later, twelve guests at a wedding were killed in an air raid.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• This will be a clash of styles between slow-paced KP and Franklin’s air raid offense.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• The second air raid siren of the day whines as Zinovii stands outside church with his son.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2022
• Dear guest, our event will be suspended in case of air raid alert.
  — CNN, 30 Apr. 2022
• Those who didn’t wake to explosions were roused by air raid sirens.
  — Andrew Drake, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2022
• The wail of air raid sirens was sounding outside her home in western Ukraine.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• But these were built on sites peppered with bomb shelters, and under the wail of air raid sirens.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
• Several times a day, air raid sirens disrupt the daily rhythms of life on the farm.
  — Time, 27 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024