strafe

How To Use strafe In A Sentence

• When a concentration begins on a battery, either the gunners must go to their dugouts or run beyond the range of the shells until the "strafe" is over. My Second Year of the War
• The left stick controls your movement forwards and backwards, as well as turns you left and right while R1 and L1 act as your strafe.
• Within hours of the attempted assassination, helicopter gunships strafed the village and hundreds of its inhabitants, including men, women and children, were rounded up.
• The frigate was covering the cargo vessels when the fighters roared in, strafed it with cannon fire, and hit it with four bombs that failed to explode.
• civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country's surrender
• I had to hit the bushes and be very still as the cops strafed the area with their searchlights, but I made it, scurrying up the back steps to my apartment in a fourplex on Garfield Avenue. 'The Night of the Gun'
• The doctor in the base camp knows that he will be abominably "strafed" if he sends "crocks" to the front. A Padre in France
• From the air, two helicopters strafed the village.
• They strafed the trenches, killing twelve and wounding many others.
• Then the village is burned to the ground as those trying to escape are bombed and strafed by aircraft.