How To Use Raid In A Sentence

I'm afraid he is guilty of a good deal of invention.
Police believe a gang of up to five men were responsible for a raid on a Melksham store in which hundreds of pounds were stolen from an unlocked office.
He was afraid of waking up in the morning and finding that Jessie was dead.
I was talking to a mom today whose daughter's elementary teacher said she was afraid that her daughter had "selective mutism. Canard - French Word-A-Day
They run out of beer by about 7pm so we then turned to the wine, which I'm afraid would have stripped the paint off any wall.

Here's a good one - a survey to see if birds are afraid of heights or get jet lag on long flights. The Sun
I am afraid to lose, I fear this time, and I love it but memories. I could not forget the sweat on the pitch with the sway of the brothers, forget accompany me cry close friend, and forget the bright Star of that everynight, and those words have touched me deeply.
A senior detective who led the hunt for two armed robbers behind a series of terrifying raids across Bradford today told of the desperate race against time to catch them before someone was shot.
They were afraid the dam wouldn't hold.
He is a man with a reputation for being tough and unafraid of unpopular decisions.
No matter how many police raids are conducted, if we cannot guarantee their protection young victims will remain too terrified to testify against their traffickers. Times, Sunday Times
The photo plates also age and sex accipiters, those hawks that flap, flap, sail, and are the mostly likely the ones that raid our feeders of hapless birds.
Which of course explains why Bush is afraid to drive by motorcade through Washington DC but does it in Bagdad … oh wait … Think Progress » Rep. King: My Wife ‘Is At Far Greater Risk Being a Civilian In D.C. Than An Average Civilian In Iraq’
We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die.
Lightning raids in class are entirely justified. The Sun
The following year police raided an exhibition of Lawrence's paintings and seized every canvas on which they could descry any wisp of pubic hair.
I have seen human bathers acting just like the birds, though from a different cause, bobbing down towards the water, but afraid to dip their heads, and the idea of comicality arose, as it does in most of the ludicrous actions of animals, from their resemblance to those of mankind. The Naturalist in Nicaragua
I'm afraid I've let the garden go to pot this summer.
Their ability to conduct surprise raids presupposed close familiarity with currents, beaches, and locations of population centres.
Fans who gathered there to watch the Raiders play on Sunday repeatedly used the term "love-hate relationship" when describing Davis. NYT > Home Page
Its bright black eyes were alert and watching, ready to upbraid or condemn or love, same as any capable adult thing. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
After her 19th birthday her thrice - divorced manager, afraid that her encroaching adulthood might impede her careerist progress, began to woo her.
The ten purebred dogs, most of them Labrador retrievers, were rescued about a year ago when U.S. law-enforcement officers raided a rural Colombia veterinary clinic.
I'm afraid I'm no weather prophet.
And now he called Ahithophel, and consulted with him what he ought to do: he persuaded him to go in unto his father's concubines; for he said that "by this action the people would believe that thy difference with thy father is irreconcilable, and will thence fight with great alacrity against thy father, for hitherto they are afraid of taking up open enmity against him, out of an expectation that you will be reconciled again. Antiquities of the Jews
I am afraid we are not at liberty to disclose that information.
I felt shamed for being called crybaby and a fraidy cat by family members and others. Undefined
He was driven to use reprisal raids, the razzias that had traditionally formed part of warfare in North Africa.
The captain, having lost two brave fellows of his troop, was afraid of diminishing it too much by pursuing this plan to get information of the residence of their plunderer.
In the south the French division mounted a diversionary amphibious raid at Kum Kale on the Asian side of the Dardanelles.
Brer Rabbit b'ilt 'im a straw house, en hit wuz tored down; den he made a house outen pine-tops, en dat went de same way; den he made' im a bark house, en dat wuz raided on, en eve'y time he los 'a Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser
Targeting pod-equipped aircraft can make pre-raid surveillance videos, check for improvised explosive devices (IEDs), track targets such as gunmen or vehicles, and send information to ground units.
I was afraid of starting a slide of loose stones.
He doesn't want to get married because he is afraid of any commitments.
Clara looked momentarily disconcerted but wasn't about to concede defeat after upbraiding Nicholas a moment before.
A bloodless revolution is possible, but only if it's supported by a clear majority of the populace, who are no longer afraid to say what they think for fear of being shot.
John, mum, I beg of you; for 'is temper's rather short at times, mum, thro' boin 'asmatic and the rheumatiz, though you wouldn't think it to look at' im, that you wouldn't; an 'I'm reely afraid, mum, he might get angry if anybody was to holler' im anythink for Philistia
Now as Tera lay out with her hair coated in conditioner, Mari unbraided her own hair, listened to her iPod, and enjoyed rays. Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
It's a grey, cold day here in Amsterdam and I have to go and raid the fridge to find something for our belated Saturday brunch.
A ram-raider returned to Medway in April to steal a Nissan Cabstar lorry from Commissioner's Road, Strood. Kos RSS Feed
I'm afraid that's my training; always reconnoitre thoroughly. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
The raiders then escaped with about £ 300 from a safe.
I'm afraid I can't give you a general overview of the situation.I can only offer you a worm's-eye view that is based on my own experience.
Well, how about a forested planet with the deeply "connected" natives, a human military raid on a huge tree-city and a subsequent retaliation of natives ... some scenes seem incredibly familiar, even though Le Guin plot is markedly deeper and more sophisticated. 10 Possible Sources of "Avatar" in Classic Science Fiction
Fortunately, she was lapping the soup up with great neatness and delicacy, which was sort of a relief: Jinx had been afraid she was going to slop it all over the table.
When someone seems, by any reasonable standard, so intent on braiding the rope, tying the knot, and hanging himself with it, it's easy to suppose that the best thing to do is to stand back so everyone can have an unimpaired view.
Jeanne requested an armed raid on the building to rescue the woman, but the group leader wouldn't hear of it.
All of which begs the question as to whether or not somebody SHOULD make a MMORPG based on the Wheel of Time series, though if they do I look forward to a variety of braid tugging and skirt smoothing emotes along with an "agelessness" slider in the character creation tool. The Ancient Gaming Noob
[Ed: his house was subsequently raided, his data and computers confiscated and examined] After four years the police have finally admited they should never have arrested him in the first place. Boing Boing
Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
Letters were piled up behind the door, but no food or drink was found in the flat and it is feared she may have starved to death after becoming too afraid to go outside.
It looks at some appalling racial attacks, including a skinhead raid last June on a Gypsy camp near Naples.
It's all well and good for some to say that it's wrong for children to be advised to hit back, but I'm afraid I'd rather my son or daughter protected themselves against a pasting from a bully rather than wait for a teacher to come to their aid. Crib sheet 19.10.10
Still, the Raiders have to generate some semblance of pressure with their front four.
When Sir Beaumains heard her say so, he abraid up with a great might and gat him upon his feet, and lightly he leapt to his sword and gripped it in his hand, and doubled his pace unto the Red Knight, and there they fought a new battle together. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
Meanwhile, all of Africa and large parts of Asia would lie dark and unlit as if during a wartime bombing raid, a fate that one or two places down there would actually be enduring.
Well, I am afraid the crusade was rather a fizzer.
I'm afraid George Cole came off worst from our partnership in Minder.
She is also unafraid of speaking out on her favourite causes.
She also queried whether youngsters were being 'cocooned' by over-protective parents afraid that they would come to harm if they went outside the back-garden. Home | Mail Online
Lovers of the team and the game and unafraid of admiring the opposition.
His moment of glory came in a raid on a Kilburn flat when the tenant brandished a loaded gun in his face. The Sun
If he is awarded compensation for the way they handled the raid on his home, who will pay? The Sun
Noblemen weren't supposed to be afraid of such things, but that didn't change the fact that the deep, caliginous mist was just plain creepy. Mistborn
And there are symbolic margins along which men get a worse deal than 100 years ago - modern males are probably more afraid to make sexist remarks within earshot of their wives. Are Husbands Really Like Potatoes?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
I'm afraid that these troubles are just a prelude , ie to worse ones.
No consideration was given to the fact that most Apache hostilities were self-defense or retaliation, and that they'd first been raided by the New Mexicans.
The shot hit the raider in the upper chest and killed him instantly.
Kicking off in 1944, the film opens with the type of prologue that could have been lifted straight from the Indiana Jones escapade, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
But she's the one who always wanted to be a writer, and kept postponing it because she was too chicken-hearted, afraid she would fail. THE SAVING GRACES
I'm afraid to say whilst there are some good landlords and landladies in town, there are also some who need to stop looking so miserable, put a smile on their face and start offering a genuine welcome along with some value for money
I've just let things slide, I'm afraid.
A camper van used by the Irish holidaymaker is believed to have been one of four vehicles seized by police during a raid on the campsite.
The mother is very much afraid for her son who is seriously ill.Sentencedict
Excuse me, but I'm afraid this is a no-smoking area.
He should be very afraid, closeted queenie that he is. Think Progress » Virginia attorney general instructs state colleges to stop protecting gay students from discrimination.
It shows a beautiful young black woman with a large mass of curly and braided hair, her head turned in three-quarter view toward us.
Burglars hurled pedigree puppies out of the window during a raid on a house in Salford.
They are afraid of incriminating themselves and say no more than is necessary.
The police clearly took the reports of a similar find in Australia seriously, and last Friday Sydney police launched a dawn raid on a modest two-storey house in the suburbs.
Ordinary Māori, many of whom were victimized by the police raids, descended upon Parliament today in a hikoi mass march, and beg to differ. Archive 2007-11-01
Despite my obvious affinity with the man, I'm afraid I haven't been able to acheive a telepathic connection to ask him who he is.
If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid. Paulo Coelho
The taxmen cottoned on, and would raid the pub quite often.
Humans are too afraid to accept the truth that they're not the only creatures inhabiting this small planet.
The city's historic center, which had been largely spared massive bombing raids until then, was almost completely destroyed during this attack.
Thousands of pounds worth of drugs were seized in dawn raids yesterday.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire
Men aren't afraid to be soft, girly and foppish and celebrate the inner life.
He's afraid of losing customers/that he might lose customers.
If he were not afraid of him he would long ago have evicted him from the dosshouse. Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories
She unbraided her hair, unhooked her silver bracelet from her left wrist, and laid it on the counter.
A pay rise is not within the realms of possibility, I'm afraid.
It was hard to recover my form, but I'm not afraid to go into tackles any more and I feel great and impatient for the games to come.
The guerrillas raided banks and destroyed a police barracks and an electricity substation.
She was a forceful intellectual unafraid to speak her mind.
A market trader has told how he faces going out of business after overnight raiders stripped his van of £10,000 worth of goods.
I'm afraid that what he alludes to is only a possibility among others, and not in my view the most likely one.
Stone and Parker are unafraid of lampooning both paranoid megalomania and the inane platitudes of Hollywood superstars.
One of their projects was to tidy up the area where once stood an air-raid shelter and brick shed, the removal of which would have cost about £1,000 to be done privately.
Frank led a raiding party of eight men who eventually succeeded in cornering the goat after a two-hour operation.
I was afraid of sewing from a pattern when I was a novice seamster, ironically, but now that I sew well, I enjoy using patterns to create more complicated clothing with attractive detailing and sophisticated elements. Oliver + S Releases Free Downloadable Pattern
Don't be afraid to haggle: for the moment, it's a buyer's market.
I'm afraid words have escaped me, and perhaps it is better as so.
Pastor Braun worked on the books constantly, even with a flashlight during air raids.
Don't be afraid of being happy. You deserve to be happy. RVM
They are afraid that their party will perish as they risk losing the support of both the ‘deep blue’ and pro-localization factions.
He had absolute belief in himself and his methods, and wasn't afraid to say so to anybody.
While the police once raided gay clubs to arrest people, today they cruise them to encourage the reporting of homophobia.
A bombing raid on Hamburg resulted in a firestorm that killed more than 50,000 people.
It doesn't usually make for either longevity or real quality, and I hope they continue to turn their attentions to the things that truly interest them and remain unafraid to produce smaller, 'humbler' movies. With True Grit, the Coen brothers have given the western back its teeth
Everyone is afraid of death, but those suffering from thanatophobia are afraid of the unknown," Ponomaryov explains. Pravda.Ru
That's not strictly true, I'm afraid.
Don't be afraid to lean. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.
She crawled away from him so fast he was afraid she would go too far and fall off the bed.
A man even admitted to calling in sick yesterday because he was afraid to leave for work in the predawn hours.
I turned my head towards aisle three to stare down Vader, but I was afraid of being turned into a pillar of salt so I averted my eyes.
Evidence that Woodrow Call harbored no light feeling for Maggie was right before him: Call looked blank and sad, not unlike the way survivors looked after an Indian raid or a shoot-out of some kind. Comanche Moon
The odds of him dying early, of Smith having early onset Alzheimer's Disease, hell, of just getting a minor concussion which he plays through and doesn't dare tell anyone because he's afraid of being fired -- NFL players have the crappiest contracts in all of professional major league sports, not to mention those contracts are year-to-year (if I remember correctly) -- just went sky-fracking-high. Archive 2009-10-01
He said he had not been afraid during the sinking because he is a strong swimmer. Times, Sunday Times
Has she given her selection the full-on syrup-drowning treatment (not afraid to splurge), or do the scattered half-open jam packets indicate she's a nibbler (delicate, but with a mellow fruity finish)?
I'm afraid I can't book you onto that flight?it's full.
Banks rely on us being a bit lazy, a bit afraid of change, and a bit ignorant about what is available.
Back on land where we could sink safely into the snow up to our ankles and giggle at our own bravery, there was an angry woman who didn't speak English, upbraiding us in a way that needed no translation.
The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow.
Is he afraid we will expose the huge holes in these fatally flawed proposals?
Some heads have admitted that they are afraid to use their powers for fear of retribution. Times, Sunday Times
He said today he was not afraid of competing with supermarkets but feared the effect on customer choice.
Cops have been given more time to quiz alleged accomplices after raids last week in West London. The Sun
Today her blonde hair is plaited into French braids elaborately tied with huge dark blue and white ribbons, and she's wearing a short, dark blue denim skirt with her tan Uggs.
The grungy banditos had to escape Blythe, but they were afraid of getting pulled over on the way out of town.
He found her in a white cymar of silk lined with furs, her little feet unstockinged and hastily thrust into slippers; her unbraided hair escaping from under her midnight coif, with little array but her own loveliness, rather augmented than diminished by the grief which she felt at the approaching moment of separation. Kenilworth
Oh she played ignorant when I upbraided her, but I suspect she knew exactly what she was doing.
Perhaps they are afraid of being ‘politically incorrect’ or offending religious susceptibilities.
One of the reasons I strongly recommend using antecedents is that if you say your story is like ROMANCING THE STONE and LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER, it tells me you have a woman hero in an inflated action story that’s going after adrenaline and excitement. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Michael Hauge, Part 1
Military officials gave a few broad statements about the bombing raid.
The stalks of wheat could be spun and braided into many useful things.
I know you guys aren't afraid of playing "murderball," but are your families worried about you reinjuring yourself at all? CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2005
He climbed to the top of the tree and then became afraid to get down.
Do not be afraid to add a little colour and f lair. Times, Sunday Times
I know you guys aren't afraid of playing murderball, but are your families worried about you reinjuring yourself at all?
Afraid of a plunge into the canal that claimed the immigrants, I always unsnap my seatbelt and roll the window all the way down, this in broad daylight with no one shooting.
I'm afraid I'll have to pass on that offer of coffee.
I'm not afraid of a fair fight but this is beginning to get beyond a joke.
I'm afraid the day of the teacher, the priest and the doctor being the three important people to whom you pay obeisance is not around any longer, certainly not in Europe.
I was afraid you might point out inconsistencies, because my memory is a bit foggy, but hey let's call it artistic freedom, right? Belle's story part 1
The chain sinnet aka chain braid, daisy chain, or monkey braid is a cable shortening and storing method that can be used to make stray cables a little more pleasing to the eye. Use A Chain Sinnet To Tidy Cables | Lifehacker Australia
Ask: What afraid of arethusa take to assign name to of all have.
Pale skin, smooth all over, little pink nipples on a smooth, flat chest, snub nose with a little pale spray of freckles, big, _big_ blue eyes, naked as a jaybird, but for the brass-colored bobby-pins holding up her braids. Asimov's Science Fiction
She ran downstairs as the raiders flung open drawers and sent furniture flying. The Sun
Local police - once again, actors - raid the villa and unearth a stash of illegal porn, blaming its existence on the harangued party boys, who now believe themselves to be facing time in a Spanish lock-up.
It boasts many outbuildings, a guest house, workshop, garages and even air raid bunkers.
I was afraid I would lose my daughter in the crush of human bodies.
His trial, which began only a week after the raid, fulfilled Messervy's glummest fears. THE NUMBERS
He™d carefully avoided Gareth thus far, afraid the Knight might find out whose slingstone nearly killed him. Chosen Of The Gods
Anything that helps expectant mothers to be less afraid of the pain and trauma of childbirth can only be a good thing. Times, Sunday Times
After lie-legends; Malgo, Brandon, are Wares braide. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from Their First Beginning, Ano: 1584. To This Present 1624. With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and the Accidents
Ten years ago, the Persian Gulf War again dredged up anti-Muslim, anti-Arabic fervor and again I was afraid. An American Story | PopPolitics.com
Both the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees criticized the raid.
My escort explains that they are daman trails, in other words the trails worn by Turkoman raiders passing back and forth on their man-stealing expeditions, before their subjugation by the Russians. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
He is not afraid of letting go of responsibilities and you being his emotional anchor. The Sun
He was in Prince Albert's 11 th Hussars, and cut quite a dash on horseback in his crimson trousers, braided tunic, tassels and plumes.
I could also tell you the tale of the "frappe," but I'm afraid I'm skating too close to the ban on dialect jokes. Annoying and pretentious terms.
Mike Morton replaced Fredrickson Sunday, though the Raiders often used extra defensive backs.
In 1976 he was awarded the Scott Medal for bravery after tackling two armed robbers following a raid on a post office.
All the cables are sleeved with a tinned copper braid, which act to shield the rest of the PC from EMI.
Launching a new drive against deadly superbugs, he will say people should not be afraid to challenge staff about hygiene. The Sun
She wound the rattail of the braid into a secure knot and hid the end in the side pieces. BARN BLIND
And the moment with the discarded toys coming to life hits with stark terror and reminds us, if only for a moment, of the swarming mummies in Spielberg's great Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Anyone who studies mathematics should not be afraid of the difficulty of multiplication and division, but should be afraid of the mysteries of manipulating fractions.
In many countries, criminalization of same sex relationships drives such relationships underground, making people afraid to seek HIV prevention and treatment services.
And from her throat to her knees, it was buttoned with tiny, braid buttons. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
Again, if it is to be left to the parent's taste, and pecuniary means to clothe their children as they please and as they can, the one in braided broad-cloth and velvet cap, and the other in thread-bare homespun, will they meet as friends and equals? Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
He is still afraid of accepting film roles, despite having acted in more than 300 films over the past 29 years.
He went to classes smartly dressed in a shirt and tie, and upbraided his fellow pupils for not being suitably attired.
Brer Rabbit b'ilt 'im a straw house, en hit wuz tored down; den he made a house out'n pine-tops, en dat went de same way; den he made' im a bark house, en dat wuz raided on, en eve'y time he los 'a house he los' one er his chilluns. Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings
The greatest trick is to not to show that you are afraid of something.
We can refuse to remake our world in their image: a place of fear and mind control, where citizens are tracked and followed, where people are afraid to look or act different.
He had raided the downtown warehouse arena the night she defeated Melanie Squid in the Kumite.
During the frequent air-raids, people took refuge in their cellars.
With the departure of the Romans, the British Isles were invaded by a succession of warlike peoples from the European mainland, including the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes; there were also persistent Danish raids.
Police are investigating a raid on a secure compound.
Everyone is afraid that you'll write something damning about them for all to see.
He was afraid she would reject him because he was a foreigner.
He was afraid that he would lose.
They can be trimmed in braided ropes and you can iron fabric on to them using a fusible web. Archive 2007-10-01
If you cancel now I'm afraid you forfeit your deposit.
But he had been at the Green mansion and he had seen that misty figure in the flowing Mandarin robes, and he vas afraid Chang was wrong. THREE IN ONE
unbraid my hair
I am deeply afraid I will surprise him one day beating his head on the table in an effort to extract the solution he's seeking.
The uniform was trimmed with gold braid.
She's wearing a leopard-print blouse, leggings, and a black velour) acket with gold braid trim. The secret sense
I was so afraid that you guys might've thought I was losing my touch.
While the nymphs lie low, sucking roots in sheltering soil, you will steer a course from the eager springs of boyhood to the braided delta of manhood and majority.
I told her I had two concerns -- that we needed a voice that would transition us to a new economy, challenge pre-emptive wars, regardless of whether the wars were waged by Republicans or Democrats, and that we needed a congress person who would advocate for a just and lasting peace in the middle east, someone who would not be afraid to criticize Israel, to fight for equal rights for both Palestinians and Israelis. Marcy Winograd: Mubarak, Harman Walk: Winograd Considers a Run
The police raided the crack house
Shelley saw how, as the sun faded among the trees just as we would see it now: ‘pallid evening twines its beaming hair in duskier braids around the languid eyes of day: silence and twilight, unbeloved of men, creep hand in hand’.
Maybe he was afraid his film wasn't yet arty enough for the poseurs at the festivals.
I was nervous, certainly; afraid I might lose something dear to me.
I'm afraid we have to chop back our spending this month.

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