How to Use air raid in a Sentence

air raid

noun
  • Much of the city was destroyed in an air raid.
  • An air raid that looks air-tight.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The sound of the air raid sirens splits the air.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 May 2025
  • Blasts lit up the night sky and echoed across the city as air raid sirens wailed.
    — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2025
  • Cars, trains and ships sounded their horns and air raid sirens wailed.
    — NBC News, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Jolie and her aides had to leave when air raid sirens began to sound.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 2 May 2022
  • But her tirade was cut short by the piercing wail of an air raid siren.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • At least eight people were killed there as air raid sirens filled the streets.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2022
  • By the time evening arrives, air raid sirens once again cut through the city.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2026
  • Why are there no functioning air raid sirens?
    — Pegah Banihashemi, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Why are there no functioning air raid sirens?
    — Pegah Banihashemi, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Black smoke rose from rocket attacks as air raid sirens blared.
    — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2022
  • On their last night in Lviv, the trio heard air raid sirens go off in the city.
    — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Dear guest, our event will be suspended in case of air raid alert.
    — CNN, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Those who didn’t wake to explosions were roused by air raid sirens.
    — Andrew Drake, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2022
  • A week later, twelve guests at a wedding were killed in an air raid.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • As the leaders left the church, the air raid sirens rang out overhead.
    — Matt Viser and Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The two men were taking a late night walk in the park, when the air raid sirens went off.
    — Rebecca Hazen, Houston Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
  • At one point, workers had to pause their search and move out as an air raid siren went off.
    — Susan Archer, NBC News, 28 June 2022
  • In Kyiv alone, the air raid alarm was in place for some 11 hours.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 14 May 2026
  • Footage from the area showed bodies strewn across the floor of an air raid shelter.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Between the air raid sirens, amid updates from the front, there grows what saves.
    — New York Times, 15 July 2022
  • Polin was at his local synagogue when the air raid sirens went off.
    — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The sound of the air raid siren continues in your head even in silence.
    — Julia Kafizova, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2022
  • In the first two weeks of this month, there were, on average, two air raid alarms a day.
    — Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
  • An air raid begins, and a screen of fighters need to escort the bomber fleet.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2017
  • My first night back in the country, in that region, the air raid sirens sounded.
    — Bytom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 11 May 2022
  • But these were built on sites peppered with bomb shelters, and under the wail of air raid sirens.
    — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The train from Kyiv arrives to air raid sirens on Monday.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The wail of air raid sirens was sounding outside her home in western Ukraine.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 14 July 2023

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