How To Use Air raid In A Sentence
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The United States reacted to the air raids by ordering an aircraft carrier to the gulf.
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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.
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During grammar school, I faint every time we have an air raid drill.
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Other attractions include a 1940s fashion show and villagers dressed as air raid wardens and GIs.
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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
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The city's bomb shelters were being prepared for possible air raids.
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It sounds like an air raid siren.
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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.
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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.
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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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He spoke wistfully of the war when his father was able to run out between air raids and plunder unexploded bombs.
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Once during an air raid she noticed a young man sitting alone in the shelter reading a book.
Times, Sunday Times
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As Nagasaki had been targeted in the past, people in the city had become blasé when the air raid siren sounded.
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In an air raid last night the enemy aircraft bombed the city.
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There were occasional air raids on Calcutta.
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Rome braced itself for air raids.
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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I remember the air raid drills held in school, the ones where a siren would wail and the teachers would tell us to get down on the floor, under our desks.
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Anne cannot sleep because of the air raids, and they are eating terribly-dry bread and ersatz coffee for breakfast, spinach and rotten potatoes for dinner.
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Local authorities have been instructed to put the air-raid warning system into operation, and from now on the sounding of factory hooters and sirens is prohibited except in an air raid.
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It was a dream compared to the air raids and blitz conditions she had had to put up with in London.
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Air raid wardens in tin hats self - importantly stalked the streets.
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Bush has refused to authorize an assassination attempt, though there have been U.S. efforts to "decapitate" the Iraqi leadership through air raids on Baghdad bunkers.
'His Head On A Plate'
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We were free - no more bombs, doodlebugs or air raid sirens.
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The air raids were followed by military action on the ground .
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It was the responsibility of air raid wardens to ensure that everybody had been issued with a gas mask.
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One of the major aims of the air raid was the complete demolition of all means of communications by bombing.
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Thunderous night air raids on nearby Naples Harbor were becoming a regular thing and the tracers, explosions and bomb concussions made a violent show which we watched from the roof of our building.
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The piercing alarms of air raid sirens were signalling an attack.
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Equipment was possibly used to trigger air raid sirens during the Second World War.
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The new call for unity and stability accompanied measures to improve China's defence, of which the most dramatic was the campaign to dig a huge honeycomb of air raid shelters beneath the cities.
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Irving claimed that it was standard practice at the time that air raid shelters should have doors which opened outwards.
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During Air Raid drills school children were sheltered in the vast cellars beneath cotton mills.
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Many shops were damaged or destroyed by air raids.
The Sun
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Her left elbow was still stiff since her injury in the air raid and she failed a medical for heavier work.
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Maybury took advantage of their weak expectations for this and arranged an air raid on London, one misty, rainy night.
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Heavy detonations, air raid sirens and the crackle of anti-aircraft fire thundered through Baghdad last night as the Iraqi capital faced a second night of attacks.
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The school cycle sheds were taken over as air raid shelters.
Times, Sunday Times
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But at 1807 we received convincing indications of an air raid.
ONE HUNDRED DAYS
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He was slightly gassed during the ninth Polish air raid on Berlin, and this no doubt accelerated his death in Bloomsbury, the tuberculous London slum in which his book was completed.
The Shape of Things to Come
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During grammar school, I faint every time we have an air raid drill.
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Rome braced itself for air raids.
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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The school cycle sheds were taken over as air raid shelters.
Times, Sunday Times
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The four recruiting depots have been busy all day, air raid warning tests have been heard across the city this evening, and posters are calling for volunteers for first aid.
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There are notices telling train passengers what to do in an air raid are being put up in all main line railway stations.
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The first thing I heard when I put in this CD and pressed ‘Play’ was a weird drone that sounded more like an air raid than anything else my fatigued brain could think of.
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The air force of our enemy regrouped for making a new air raid.
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We hear the boom of cannons in the distance and occasionally the rattle of anti-aircraft guns during air raids.
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General John Allen told reporters at the Pentagon via videoconference Wednesday that a coalition air raid killed the Taliban insurgents responsible for bringing down the helicopter in Wardak.
Taliban Militants Who Shot Down US Helicopter Killed in Airstrike
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Many shops were damaged or destroyed by air raids.
The Sun
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Anne cannot sleep because of the air raids, and they are eating terribly-dry bread and ersatz coffee for breakfast, spinach and rotten potatoes for dinner.
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This photograph by Adnan Hajj, a Lebanese photographer, showed thick black smoke rising above buildings in the Lebanese capital after an Israeli air raid.
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My great aunt was 40 when she was pulled out of a bombed air raid shelter during the Clydebank blitz in March 1941.
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The city's bomb shelters were being prepared for possible air raids.
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The air raids had surcharged the emergency wards
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I used to know how to say "Did you ever participate in an Air Raid?" in Serbo-Croatian, from an Army manual from WW2, and when I lived in NYC & went to Chinatown functions frequented by local pols, my girlfriend taught me to say "Are you corrupt?" in Mandarin - all the grinning ignorant Public Servants reflexively replied "yes, yes" when I asked them, to the delight of the Chinese at the table.
An idea to save newspapers (Jack Bog's Blog)
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In an air raid last night the enemy aircraft bombed the city.
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It boasts many outbuildings, a guest house, workshop, garages and even air raid bunkers.
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The air raids were planned to knock out communications on the ground.
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The war began with overnight air raids on Baghdad and Kuwait.
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Whenever a contractor digs into Berlin at a building site, he may dig up an unexploded bomb, exhume corpses, or liberate the fear trapped in a buried air raid shelter.
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Israel launches air raids in Gaza after rocket, mortar fire mayor told to 'evict' Silwan settlers condemns Web list of Gaza soldiers AP
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This photograph by Adnan Hajj, a Lebanese photographer, showed thick black smoke rising above buildings in the Lebanese capital after an Israeli air raid.
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Many in earshot of the blast feared the Germans had landed and sought refuge in air raid shelters.
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The air raids were becoming heavier and more frequent.
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In an air raid last night the enemy aircraft bombed the city.
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The city's bomb shelters were being prepared for possible air raids.
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Equipment was possibly used to trigger air raid sirens during the Second World War.
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The little girl fell victim to a bomb in a fascist air raid.
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Once during an air raid she noticed a young man sitting alone in the shelter reading a book.
Times, Sunday Times
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All the air raid warnings , without exception , had been false alarm.
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They arrived in the capital to the mournful wail of air raid sirens.
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It boasts many outbuildings, a guest house, workshop, garages and even air raid bunkers.
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I was about seven at the time and, along with my mother and a number of neighbours, I spent the night in an Air Raid shelter, while the Luftwaffe were raining bombs and incendiaries on London.
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The little girl fell victim to a bomb in a fascist air raid.
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Base Control Tower Air raid warning! Enemy bombers inbound. Scramble and engage!
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Most of the war was spent at Windsor castle, where the princesses learned the art of rolling out of bed and into air raid shelters when the sirens sounded.
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Most of the damage was done by the Sri Lankan military through air raids and artillery barrages.
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The howling of the sirens, which shriek to announce the beginning and end of each air raid alarm, merge into a single, hair-raising noise.
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In an air raid last night the enemy aircraft bombed the city.
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When we left, however, there was another air raid on and you could hear the detonations, feel the detonations even rippling through the edge of the city.
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The government army launched a series of air raids against positions held by the Force Nouvelle.
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In a passage on the war years, he includes the story about the single German air raider firing on the fish shop.
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A series of air raids resulted in a number of civilian casualties.
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In case the Regent's Park buildings should be involved in an air raid, all the poisonous insects and snakes have been destroyed.
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Pastor Braun worked on the books constantly, even with a flashlight during air raids.
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Although the dangers of long-haul air travel have been highlighted, a similar condition was first noted in people sitting on deckchairs in air raid shelters during the Blitz in London.
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The school cycle sheds were taken over as air raid shelters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Air raids began last Thursday and troops started the ground assault the following day.
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When the air raid sirens screamed, they left in their apartment building scrambled for the cellar.
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The sound of air raid sirens filled the air, and hundreds of people dressed as soldiers of different nationalities filled the streets of Pickering for the seventh annual wartime weekend.
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There were 15 minutes between the first air raid alert and the sounding of the all-clear signal.
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We hear the boom of cannons in the distance and occasionally the rattle of anti-aircraft guns during air raids.
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A strict blackout was imposed in Pyongyang, and the populace was crowded into underground shelters as air raid sirens wailed.
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I was five years old when the war began and I remember the blitz, when we spent so much time in the air raid shelters.
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Even though I was evacuated because I was very young, I remember being in air raid shelters and the tremendous feeling of compatibility with everybody.
