How to Use air raid in a Sentence

air raid

noun

• Much of the city was destroyed in an air raid.
• 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
• 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
• Between the air raid sirens, amid updates from the front, there grows what saves.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The air raid alert began at about 6 a.m. local time and lasted for about three hours.
  — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
• Shortly afterward, an air raid siren went off in the city.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
• Even as all sides agreed to extend the grain deal, air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine on Thursday.
  — John Leicester, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2022
• Polin was at his local synagogue when the air raid sirens went off.
  — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2023
• Yet, despite the air raid alarms and the explosions, for a single night, both ∄ and Kyiv were alive — and dancing.
  — Caleb Larson, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2022
• In Kyiv, the air raid alarms sounded about 7:30 a.m. and were followed quickly by reports of missiles in the air.
  — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2022
• Unlike Israel, the Gaza Strip has no air raid sirens or bomb shelters.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2023
• Moments before the train lurched into motion and toward the west, an air raid siren pierced the air.
  — Justin Spike, ajc, 2 Aug. 2022
• As Putin laid a wreath in Moscow, air raid sirens echoed again in the Ukrainian capital.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 10 May 2022
• Putin’s war is a part of them now — the thuds and explosions and air raid sirens ring in their ears even in their quietest moments.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2022
• On Monday, Moiseyev was taking his 12-year-old daughter to school when the air raid siren went off.
  — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
• At night a strange silence fell amid the stones of the old towns; farther south, air raid sirens warned of incoming rockets.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• Or the frequent wail of air raid sirens that sends Varvara and her mom dashing off to a nearby bomb shelter.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
• The air raid sirens sound constantly, and Ukrainian fighter jets roar through the air on patrol.
  — Michael Schwirtz, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
• An offensive reunion There’s no air raid this time around for the Renegades.
  — Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
• At one point air raid sirens go off, and the two shuffle down to a local church, where they are packed in with other people in a shelter.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024