How to Use air raid in a Sentence

air raid

noun

• Much of the city was destroyed in an air raid.
• Civilians take shelter in a metro station during an air raid in Kyiv.
  — Daryna Mayer, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2024
• In Kyiv, where the air raid alert lasted over nine hours, missile debris fell in one neighborhood, local officials said.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Nov. 2024
• 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
• The two men were taking a late night walk in the park, when the air raid sirens went off.
  — Rebecca Hazen, Houston Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
• Jolie and her aides had to leave when air raid sirens began to sound.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 2 May 2022
• But her tirade was cut short by the piercing wail of an air raid siren.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• The flip side of the air raid at last year's A-Day was an indictment of the secondary.
  — Michael Casagrande, AL.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• At least eight people were killed there as air raid sirens filled the streets.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2022
• Footage from the area showed bodies strewn across the floor of an air raid shelter.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
• 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
• An air raid begins, and a screen of fighters need to escort the bomber fleet.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2017
• The incoming attack set off air raid sirens in the Golan.
  — Zeina Karam and Aron Heller, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2018
• 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
• The gifts were made in memory of his sister, Ruth, who at 19 was killed in an air raid near the end of the war.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Jan 2025