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air raid

NOUN
  1. an attack by armed planes on a surface target

How To Use air raid In A Sentence

  • The United States reacted to the air raids by ordering an aircraft carrier to the gulf.
  • At the height of the blitz he sometimes had to cycle through air raids to attend members of Churchill's wartime cabinet in their underground bunker.
  • During grammar school, I faint every time we have an air raid drill.
  • Other attractions include a 1940s fashion show and villagers dressed as air raid wardens and GIs.
  • In a sign of the febrility of the public mood, many beach-goers apparently mistook the air raid sirens for a genuine Iranian attack and fled in panic for their cars. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • The city's bomb shelters were being prepared for possible air raids.
  • It sounds like an air raid siren.
  • In wartime, the amount of stocks in any area might be affected by air raid damage, or the flow of supplies might be reduced temporarily by transport difficulties.
  • When air raids are threatened, warning will be given in towns by sirens and hooters, which will be sounded, in some places by short blasts, or in other places by a warbling note, changing every few seconds.
  • My father was in the Air Raid Precautions unit and my mother in the Women's Royal Voluntary Service, my eldest sister in the WAAF and my middle sister in the Wrens.
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