How to Use air strike in a Sentence

air strike

noun
  • Hamas claims the family were killed in an Israeli air strike.
    — Hadeel Al-Shalchi, NPR, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Alaa herself lost a brother in an Israeli air strike.
    — Ghada Abdulfattah, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Al-Areer was killed by an Israeli air strike in 2023.
    — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2025
  • His relatives have told him his brother survived the air strike, but was injured.
    — NBC News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Khaled’s greatest fear was that his wife and children, one of whom had been waiting for a surgery, would be killed in an air strike.
    — Mosab Abu Toha, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The most consequential Israeli air strike of the war, in the end, was one that failed.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Ghadir reluctantly did so, and that night her entire building was destroyed in an air strike.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
  • One of my childhood friends, Shaima, was killed in an Israeli air strike along with her three children.
    — Ghada Abdulfattah, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Cars blow up, there is an air strike that sends missiles at cars whose packages get damaged, and plenty of guns are being shot.
    — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Then, on March 16, a Russian air strike left a blast radius where the theater had been.
    — James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
  • Shortly after, his organization announced he had been killed in an air strike.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Fifteen minutes after the air strike, half of the Hamad Building collapsed.
    — Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
  • Zahra was one of at least twenty-four people who were killed in the Israeli air strike on the Hamad Building.
    — Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
  • Last August, a patient carer was killed when an air strike hit the hospital’s surgical ward.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025
  • An air strike earlier on a house in the camp killed at least 10 people and wounded many others, according to medics.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 7 July 2024
  • Another air strike flattened a residential building in the Bureij refugee camp, killing at least nine.
    — Ayesha Khan, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The air strike that follows might kill everyone in the target's family, if not everyone in the apartment building.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
  • You were imprisoned in Evin Prison in June, and your ward was bombarded by an Israeli air strike.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • In another video, filmed by Agence France-Presse not long after the air strike, Layan’s face was mottled with burns.
    — Longreads, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Video from the western part of the city showed multiple casualties after an air strike Saturday.
    — Eyad Kourdi, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Early in the morning on February 12th, an air strike hit the building across the street from the family’s shelter.
    — Claire Porter Robbins, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The final air strike came after the Chargers struggled to find their alignment when Green Bay’s offense went with no huddle.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Antennas are like flagsticks for enemy drones, and Boyko had already been the victim of an air strike in Tabaivka that nearly killed him.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Hamas forced Yarden to be filmed while a fellow Israeli captive was coerced into telling him that his wife and sons had been killed by an Israeli air strike.
    — Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • In a segment last summer, Magal announced that an Israeli air strike had killed a top Hamas commander.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • That air strike killed 25 civilians in Belgorod, according to Moscow.
    — Harold Maass, The Week Us, theweek, 3 Jan. 2024
  • On December 8th, an air strike on a tent in the Nuseirat refugee camp killed at least five people, including two parents and two children.
    — Ayesha Khan, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Thirty-seven members of his extended family had been killed in an Israeli air strike on a Palestinian refugee camp.
    — USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Another clip showed a plume of smoke billowing from the Revolutionary Court, which had been hit in an Israeli air strike.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Monday's barrage was the deadliest air strike in months, officials said, and a pointed message to the Western military alliance.
    — Dan Morrison, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024

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