How To Use Strafe In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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Within hours of the attempted assassination, helicopter gunships strafed the village and hundreds of its inhabitants, including men, women and children, were rounded up.
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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.
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civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country's surrender
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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'
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The doctor in the base camp knows that he will be abominably "strafed" if he sends "crocks" to the front.
A Padre in France
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From the air, two helicopters strafed the village.
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They strafed the trenches, killing twelve and wounding many others.
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Then the village is burned to the ground as those trying to escape are bombed and strafed by aircraft.
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Miller's involvement in the employment of CAS was largely responsible for the accuracy of four 30mm strafe runs and the emplacement of three precision-guided GBU38 munitions on the objective.
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Patrol party: Conductor department the direction have armed the car strafe a civilian, please allow attack!
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They told us about how their houses had been destroyed and how they had been strafed by helicopter gunships.
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A government office that had been taken over by the militiamen and used to store ammunition was strafed by a helicopter gunship and then reduced to rubble by tank fire.
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During 9 March numerous single aircraft appeared overhead to strafe Takali airfield.
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It glides to a momentary stop over the edge of the enemy beachhead, then strafes its way across, shooting dangerously close to our own troops.
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I knew it was risky, for if I had been found out, I would have been "strafed" for this, just as hard as if I had tried to escape.
Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany
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Discipline was rigid and they were "strafed" for any infraction of rules; that is, they were subjected to cuts in pay.
World's War Events, Vol. II
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He said that helicopter gunships and navy patrol boats had strafed the communities, and that scores of civilians had been killed.
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One night was marked by a very intense "strafe" for a short time with rifle grenades and trench mortars.
The Story of the 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry France, April 1915-November 1918
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Just what would have happened if Rommel's staff car had not been strafed by the RAF, thus putting him out of action four days before the assassination attempt, is one of the great might-have-beens of history.
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Cities and villages are being bombed and strafed on almost a daily basis by warplanes and helicopters.
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In the meantime, Timpson and myself had planned to strafe the road at Bug Bug on the night 15/16 July.
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I glanced up at the pollard willow over head, against which I had been leaning to steady my field glasses as I watched our artillery "strafe" the Germans who were attacking the Ghurkas.
"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders
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A government office that had been taken over by the militiamen and used to store ammunition was strafed by a helicopter gunship and then reduced to rubble by tank fire.
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Once those helicopters got into the air, they would be able to strafe the guerrillas almost at leisure.
KARA KUSH
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Allied forces quickly ruptured the German front and penetrated deep behind the lines, while Allied aircraft mercilessly strafed the retreating Germans.
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Some days we would "strafe" him with trench mortars; on others we would give him a touch of our artillery.
Over the top with the 25th Chronicle of events at Vimy Ridge and Courcellette
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When this playful little "strafe" was removed by an order from Hanover the accumulated parcels nearly caused the death of the Germans working in the distributing room.
'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany
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As old-fashioned believers in the Bible they had to admit to being thoroughly "strafed" in the argument, yet they had no way out, such as an intelligent understanding of the Bible affords.
Thoughts on religion at the front
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Lieutenant Bridgeman went out over the German line and "strafed" a depot.
Tam o' the Scoots
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the next morning they carried out a strafe of enemy airfields
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We strafed and bombed the city until 23,000 of them were dead.
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The second flight made an S-turn and strafed the deck and set the ship on fire.
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Then further enemy aircraft arrived and bombed and strafed the patrol for several hours.
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In such cases the hunters may become the hunted, and may perchance be 'strafed' themselves.
Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories
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He said that helicopter gunships and navy patrol boats had strafed the communities, and that scores of civilians had been killed.
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Overhead the Harriers and F-18s raced in to strafe the line of palm trees just inshore from the target beach.
BALANCE OF POWER
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Nor have they the fine American hand for devising new verbs; to maffick, to limehouse, to strafe and to wangle are their best specimens in twenty years, and all have an almost pathetic flatness.
Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation
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On this occasion the usual stoppages and checks were multiplied by a brisk artillery 'strafe' upon the front, accompanied by all manner of coloured lights and rockets.
The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
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The Amazon's Strafe skill now correctly enhances base bow damage rather than total bow damage.
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It's true that he does jolly good work when the Huns 'strafe' his wire and he has to go out and mend it, but he doesn't go forward in an attack; he sits in his dug-out and telephones like blazes for reinforcements while the Germans pepper his roof for him with 'whizz-bangs.'
Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France
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Air bases were attacked, ships were strafed and fuel dumps were blown up.
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Helicopter gunships strafed the area where the guerrilla group was fleeing.
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The planes were reported to have used cluster bombs and also to have strafed roads and buildings.
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Helicopter gunships and jet fighters systematically strafed the village, reportedly using information from spy satellites for targeting.
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And when I say campy, I mean campy: gold-trimed uniforms, Cylon butt-capes, overacting from the whole cast, the cute kid and his furry robot (who tag along on dangerous missions for no apparent reason), and the supposedly super-intelligent yet motive-free robot villains whose only battle tactic is to strafe everything with fighters.
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One was shot in the leg and another bayoneted through the hip, and all were sent back to camp, where they were awarded six weeks in the punishment camp, known as the strafe barracks.
The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland
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They could have sent up fighter aircraft from nearby airfields, denying the Nazis a clear sky from which to bomb and strafe the city.
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Several enemy aircraft were strafed and destroyed and airfield buildings were attacked.
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One of the later tracks on "Jungle Music," a startlingly spare and sumptuous remix of Strafe's "Set It Off," helped divine so-called electro and house music, and remains an unimpeachable classic from New York's musical underground in the 1980s.
Rescuing a Disco Demigod From Oblivion
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I _won't_, it's sheer waste -- still, I suppose one ought to be prepared -- oh, yes, give them one -- give them the word 'strafe'; nobody's got that.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 7, 1917
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Dr. Roquefort's eyes strafed the group and zeroed tight on the few he thought absolutely loyal.
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To get here they had traversed mile after mile of rugged terrain while strafed by aircraft.
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Erwin Rommel was one such victim, nearly being killed when his car was strafed by an Allied fighter.
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Exactly how they "strafed" the immoral and ubiquitous Hun submarine it is inexpedient to say.
Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories
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* Mit nichten: sondern Er zuernet schrecklich, beides ueber angeborne und wirkliche Suenden, und will sie aus gerechtem Urtheil zeitlich und ewig strafen, wie Er gesprochen hat: Verflucht sei jedermann, der nicht bleibet in allem dem, das geschrieben stehet im Buch des
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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Overnight they had been "strafed" and there had been a number of casualties; there were smashed rifles about and a smashed-up machine gun emplacement, and the men were dog-tired and many of them sleeping like logs, half buried in clay.
War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war
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Once those helicopters got into the air, they would be able to strafe the guerrillas almost at leisure.
KARA KUSH
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Almost every afternoon, about 4-30 p.m., the usual trench mortar "strafe" would commence, and would last for an hour or so.
The Story of the "9th King's" in France
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But after mining has been in progress for some time, and various craters have been blown and sapped out to, and after trench mortars have "strafed" consistently for many months and torn the original surface of the ground to pieces, the actual position of the trenches themselves becomes haphazard.
No Man's Land
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The Germans "strafed" this trench overnight, and the men are tired and sleepy.
War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war
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Mit nichten: sondern Er zuernet schrecklich, beides ueber angeborne und wirkliche Suenden, und will sie aus gerechtem Urtheil zeitlich und ewig strafen, wie Er gesprochen hat: Verflucht sei jedermann, der nicht bleibet in allem dem, das geschrieben stehet im Buch des Gesetzes, dass er's thue.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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Overhead the Harriers and F-18s raced in to strafe the line of palm trees just inshore from the target beach.
BALANCE OF POWER
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Remember that a well-placed strafe will chew up an airplane on the ground.
