NOUN
- a surprise attack that is launched in order to prevent the enemy from doing it to you
How To Use pre-emptive strike In A Sentence
- With Barack Obama announcing Senator Joe Biden as his running mate, I feel compelled to launch a pre-emptive strike, pleading with the inevitable parade of "race commentators" who will be asked to reh ... Brandon M. Terry: Leave Joe Biden Alone
- Luckily, I've anticipated and manage a pre-emptive strike while he's still taking in the last statement.
- ‘We see it as a non-violent, pre-emptive strike to protect the constitution,’ he said when we spoke last week.
- The aircraft carried out a pre-emptive strike against bases in the north.
- But the political protest song failed to make a pre-emptive strike. Times, Sunday Times
- And then there were the pre-emptive strikes on Iraq. Times, Sunday Times
- But some women opt for a pre-emptive strike by having their breasts removed.
- He had half expected a divine pre-emptive strike, a thunderbolt maybe, as he queued for the body and blood.
- We have no intention of launching a pre-emptive strike, but we will retaliate if provoked.
- His speech was a pre-emptive strike designed to prevent opponents from exploiting the war issue.
