How to Use raid in a Sentence

raid

1 of 2 noun

• They caught five smugglers in the raid.
• They launched a raid against the enemy.
• Weapons were also seized during the drug raid.
• Anyone who does not die in the raids will die of hunger and thirst.
  — Omar Shaban, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2023
• The raid was led by Malaysia’s Ministry of Home Affairs.
  — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 24 May 2023
• But in recent weeks, the raids have left the camp, an area of less than half a square mile, battered.
  — Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
• Hamas terrorists in a statement claimed to have repelled the Israeli raid from the sea.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, Fox News, 27 Oct. 2023
• Hamas is simply too entrenched, in too many places, to be rooted out with bombs and raids alone.
  — Daniel Byman and Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2023
• In video footage taken of the raid, Özer, shirtless and wearing red shorts, looks shocked.
  — Leif Wenar, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
• The people were killed during an overnight raid by the Israeli military at the Nur Shams refugee camp.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
• Detainees live in fear of raids; soldiers have beaten people in front of their tents.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• According to the complaint, the footage was recorded by Afroman's wife during the raid.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2023
• Joseph Ruiz showed up during the raid to get money out of his box but was turned away empty handed.
  — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Her family said she was handcuffed and dragged out of the house in an early-morning raid.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• The drone raid is notable not just for the extreme skill of the Ukrainian operators, but also for the apparent range of the strike.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• After one recent raid, residents returned the day after to take stock of the carnage to their homes.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• After the raid, Wright says, Restell insisted that she be allowed to eat her lunch before going to jail.
  — Moira Donegan, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
• Lindsly met Archer during a raid of his home with a search warrant in an unrelated case in May 2018.
  — oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2023
• According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, 12 people have been killed since the Jenin raid began.
  — Hala Gorani, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
• He was convicted of rioting against Israeli forces who were conducting a raid in the Shuafat refugee camp in the summer.
  — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• Consulting firms face an even dicier future, as the Bain and Mintz raids underscore.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
• Last year, the government began returning the materials that agents had seized in the 2017 raids.
  — Jesse Drucker, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
• Gardner saw the raid as a direct affront to her authority.
  — Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2023
• Recent cross-border raids have also rattled those regions of Russia and put the Kremlin on guard.
  — Susie Blann, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
• In the novel’s first major set piece, the crew carries out a nighttime raid across the Rio Grande into Mexico to steal a herd of horses to take on the northward journey.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• From the protection of the desert, the Nabataeans could have mounted resistance with surprise raids and guerrilla-style attacks.
  — Jeremy Hillpot, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
• They were soon joined by others in the federal class action lawsuit opposing the seizures on the ground that the raid violated the Fourth Amendment.
  — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Thus, any used and lost on an essentially symbolic raid may be seen as wasteful.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2023
• At the very least, foreign businesses can expect to experience the sort of raids that have become more common on the mainland.
  — The Editors, National Review, 21 Mar. 2024
• Lula declared a public-health emergency and ordered an ambitious series of raids to eject the miners.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024

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raid

2 of 2 verb

• Police raided the house and found drugs.
• She raided her sister's closet to find something to wear to the party.
• The village was raided often by neighboring tribes.
• Federal agents raided the warehouse, seizing stolen property and arresting five smugglers.
• He was raided by the FBI in 2021 and charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
  — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
• Both animals have long claws and sharp teeth, but sloth bears use theirs to raid bee hives and dig for grubs.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 21 Feb. 2024
• Did any of you believe that Jack was really gonna raid his dad’s safe for her?
  — The Editors, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2023
• Nexo's office in Sofia, Bulgaria, was raided by the local police at the start of the year.
  — Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
• Two were raided June 3 and three others were raided June 20.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• They’re known to raid crops, break into homes and stores, and snatch things like cell phones to cleverly ransom back for food.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
• His last contact with Roni was a text message at 9:27 a.m., three hours after her base was raided.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• After Cielo turned herself in for killing Loza, the Feds were able to raid the house, effectively taking down the Mayans.
  — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
• In the past, a few eagle nests have been raided by black bears with predictably bad results for the nesting eagles (i.e., loss of that year’s nestlings).
  — Helena Wegner, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• Meanwhile, Israeli forces raided many cities and camps in the West Bank, arresting dozens of people.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
• Sanders overhauled the roster, raiding the transfer portal to add nearly 90 new players to the program in hopes of a fast start.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 29 Aug. 2023
• Police also raided the home of Joan Meyer, the 98-year-old co-owner of the newspaper.
  — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2023
• The directorate previously raided Newsclick’s premises and the homes of some of its senior staff in 2021.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• Sharon raided Detroit Opera’s storage rooms for costumes and props.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
• Criminals who steal these keys can raid the boxes for checks, cash and other valuables.
  — The Enquirer, 5 Mar. 2024
• Police raided the bakery the previous week and shuttered it for three days.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2023
• Months later, his apartment was raided and a criminal case was opened against him.
  — Dasha Litvinova, ajc, 21 Apr. 2023
• The feds have already raided the home of Brianna Suggs, his chief fundraiser.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 3 Nov. 2023
• Diddy was in the Miami area on Monday when the feds raided his home, according to a person familiar with the search.
  — Camellia Burris, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
• New London is burning after British troops — led by Benedict Arnold — raided the town.
  — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• The indictment came about only because the government thought Mr. Trump took records that didn’t belong to him, and the government raided his house to find any such records.
  — Michael Bekesha, WSJ, 13 June 2023
• The paper was rightly suspicious that lawmakers might try to raid the new fund for things that didn’t have a thing to do with education.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 6 Apr. 2023
• Meanwhile, Pitt County officers raid one jail cell, which pleases Kendra but might put Sara in danger.
  — oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2023
• Three decades of raiding tombs as the titular tomb raider of the Tomb Raider franchise has landed Lara Croft in peak position atop a new list of the most iconic video game characters of all time.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2024
• The authorities raided his hospital, killed one of his co-workers, and threw the battered body of another into a pigsty for the hogs to devour.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• The last pro-Democracy paper, Stand News, closed in December 2021 after it was raided and its leadership arrested.
  — Michele Kelemen, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024