How to Use counterstrike in a Sentence

counterstrike

noun

• In fact, Adesanya could land a punch and get knocked out on a counterstrike and the $200 bonus would still convey.
  — Xl Media, cleveland, 2 July 2022
• Some of my friends may get divorced, lose their jobs, or be used as a human shield in an alien counterstrike to protect the Hive Queen.
  — Zoe Pear, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
• In the meantime, Russian forces have not simply hunkered down, but have launched their own counterstrikes.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2023
• At the time, Iranian troops were bracing for a U.S. counterstrike and appear to have mistaken the plane for a missile.
  — Rob Gillies, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
• At the time, Iranian troops were bracing for a U.S. counterstrike and appeared to have mistaken the plane for a missile.
  — Bloomberg.com, 22 Aug. 2020
• The pointed and very personal attack inevitably elicited a counterstrike from Trudeau a few hours later.
  — Paula Newton, CNN, 17 Sep. 2021
• By the standards of a church that rarely tries to clarify controversies — and indeed abides a certain level of mystery — its next step amounted to a bold counterstrike.
  — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
• Late in the day, a reported counterstrike by Ukraine appeared to damage a Russian weapons depot in the occupied Kherson region.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 11 July 2022
• Japan’s plan to purchase hundreds of Tomahawk cruise missiles that will enable it to mount a counterstrike against attacks is part of that posturing, the official said.
  — Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2023
• The continuous strikes and counterstrikes have grown in severity in recent months, raising fears of an even more destructive regional war.
  — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2024
• Notwithstanding the enormous gap between the two arsenals (which has never again been anywhere near as large), Washington was deterred by the risk of a Soviet counterstrike.
  — Jessica T. Mathews, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020
• The Israelis launched counterstrikes in roughly equal measure, emphasizing that the violence was controlled.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
• Then Osama bin Laden unleashed the September 11th attacks, and, during the counterstrike, American warplanes dropped almost eighteen thousand bombs.
  — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2021
• But Russia’s defensive strategy of aerial counterstrikes could slow Ukraine's campaign, giving Russian troops more time to lay down even more defenses.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• The Biden administration has access to the same avenues of executive power—and a powerful incentive to use Trump’s most notorious aide-de-camp’s tools to launch a counterstrike.
  — Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2022
• In the inevitable counterstrikes, Lebanon, which has uneasily accommodated Hezbollah since the nineteen-eighties, would likely be destroyed.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
• The revelation that Japan is intent on fielding a longer-range counterstrike capability, with all the missiles this will entail, is evidence enough of a shift in Japanese defense strategy.
  — WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
• The regents’ vote last year was praised by many, including myself, as a significant counterstrike — indeed, one of the first in recent memory — against the steady encroachment of church restrictions into American healthcare.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
• Israel’s security cabinet authorized a military response to the weekend attack, but the specific nature of that counterstrike remained unclear even as civilians on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon border — and the region at large — braced for it.
  — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
• There are also steps short of a counterstrike that could still prove effective, says J. Michael Daniel, the former cybersecurity coordinator for the Obama administration.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
• In the past year and a half, Japan has made significant reforms to its national security and defense strategies and has committed to buying U.S. Tomahawk missiles and building its own counterstrike capability.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
• Japan is developing a counterstrike capability that can reach targets in mainland China.
  — Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
• The Columbia class will replace the older Ohio-class submarines in the nuclear triad, with each submarine capable of responding to a surprise attack with a devastating thermonuclear counterstrike.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2020
• Releasing its latest national security strategy in December 2022, Japan announced its intention to acquire new missile counterstrike capabilities.
  — David M. Finkelstein, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024