How to Use blitzkrieg in a Sentence

blitzkrieg

noun

• The blitzkrieg erased a two-run deficit and evened the series at a game apiece.
  — Rustin Dodd, kansascity.com, 10 June 2017
• Those who work at home will have to deal with the sonic blitzkrieg.
  — Sal Vaglica, wsj.com, 10 May 2023
• Putin’s blitzkrieg had failed; that was clear by early March.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
• The blitzkrieg started right with the second half kickoff.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2021
• Some victims compare the blitzkrieg to being hit in the head with a baseball bat.
  — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• Thiem pushed Nadal deep behind the baseline with a blitzkrieg of groundstrokes.
  — Geoff MacDonald, New York Times, 25 May 2018
• That the Wehrmacht fought the blitzkrieg invasions of Poland and France hopped up on methamphetamines.
  — New York Times, 15 June 2017
• In the south, watery cays and island scrub show nature’s blitzkrieg.
  — Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
• These days, just turning on the television seems to trigger a blitzkrieg of F-bombs.
  — Beth Decarbo, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2023
• This should be an offensive blitzkrieg that comes down to which QB makes the fewer mistakes.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2022
• As Hüsker Dü jelled into a blitzkrieg hardcore trio, the bond between Mould and Hart deepened.
  — Jason Heller, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2017
• That's without the thousands of civilians sure to die in a prolonged Russian blitzkrieg.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 Mar. 2022
• Russia’s war on Ukraine wasn’t yet a month old and its blitzkrieg was already turning into a slog.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 30 July 2022
• And the prospect of a Joe Biden nomination conjures dizzying images of Trump’s blitzkrieg to come.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2020
• This seems to be the Iowa offense, a C-minus unit before a 55-point blitzkrieg against Ohio State, and a failure the two weeks afterward.
  — Scott Dochterman, ajc, 18 Nov. 2017
• Therefore, the rise of farming may have been accompanied by the first demagogues and the blitzkrieg.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2011
• But the Patriots had answers for that initial blitzkrieg.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• Which reinforces a point that’s been valid all year, from that slow 62-game start to the current blitzkrieg on the league: This year’s roster is better than last year’s.
  — SI.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• Each mat goes for a blitzkrieg-like concentration—my model has 7,992 spikes, each one-eighth inch long.
  — Aleta Burchyski, Outside Online, 4 Sep. 2020
• To lawmakers, observers, and ordinary Americans, the first two weeks of the Trump era were a blitzkrieg.
  — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
• During the Crimson Tide’s first-quarter blitzkrieg, Johnson failed to shed a block and tackle a receiver in the flats.
  — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Sep. 2021
• As restaurants across the world were forced to close, the value of Rayner’s style of blitzkrieg criticism became a fraught question.
  — Theodore Gioia, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2020
• The four-day visit, which my husband fondly referred to as the blitzkrieg, prompted fast action.
  — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2021
• Priceless art and rare substances were not the only items squirreled away as the German blitzkrieg threatened Paris.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
• Russian President Vladimir Putin has played down the impact of the war, saying that the West’s economic blitzkrieg has failed.
  — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 2 June 2022
• Prasoon Joshi, the current chief of the Censor Board, had worked in the publicity blitzkrieg that first brought Modi to power in 2014.
  — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2020
• In the video, a smiling Bushell bounces her sticks off the floor, hits a pummeling double-kick drum and blasts out double-time beats to go along with the track of Em’s verbal blitzkrieg.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2022
• Yam laid the groundwork for his coverage of the Taliban’s blitzkrieg takeover of Afghanistan with diligent previous work in the country.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2022
• Taylor Swift has opened up a new battleground in her current blitzkrieg on pop culture.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2017
• Less than a decade later came the computerized aerial blitzkrieg over Lebanon.
  — Shashank Joshi, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024