How to Use blitzkrieg in a Sentence

blitzkrieg

noun
  • Those who work at home will have to deal with the sonic blitzkrieg.
    — Sal Vaglica, wsj.com, 10 May 2023
  • The blitzkrieg erased a two-run deficit and evened the series at a game apiece.
    — Rustin Dodd, kansascity.com, 10 June 2017
  • Putin’s blitzkrieg had failed; that was clear by early March.
    — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
  • In the south, watery cays and island scrub show nature’s blitzkrieg.
    — Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Some victims compare the blitzkrieg to being hit in the head with a baseball bat.
    — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Thiem pushed Nadal deep behind the baseline with a blitzkrieg of groundstrokes.
    — Geoff MacDonald, New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • These days, just turning on the television seems to trigger a blitzkrieg of F-bombs.
    — Beth Decarbo, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Russia’s war on Ukraine wasn’t yet a month old and its blitzkrieg was already turning into a slog.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 30 July 2022
  • Taylor Swift has opened up a new battleground in her current blitzkrieg on pop culture.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The four-day visit, which my husband fondly referred to as the blitzkrieg, prompted fast action.
    — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2021
  • This should be an offensive blitzkrieg that comes down to which QB makes the fewer mistakes.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2022
  • That's without the thousands of civilians sure to die in a prolonged Russian blitzkrieg.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Less than a decade later came the computerized aerial blitzkrieg over Lebanon.
    — Shashank Joshi, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • All of these were factors in Maverick's multi-month blitzkrieg on wallets.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Therefore, the rise of farming may have been accompanied by the first demagogues and the blitzkrieg.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2011
  • Each mat goes for a blitzkrieg-like concentration—my model has 7,992 spikes, each one-eighth inch long.
    — Aleta Burchyski, Outside Online, 4 Sep. 2020
  • That the Wehrmacht fought the blitzkrieg invasions of Poland and France hopped up on methamphetamines.
    — New York Times, 15 June 2017
  • There has been a marketing blitzkrieg for the film, with which Universal will be hoping for a box office that is both shaken and stirred.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Priceless art and rare substances were not the only items squirreled away as the German blitzkrieg threatened Paris.
    — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
  • As restaurants across the world were forced to close, the value of Rayner’s style of blitzkrieg criticism became a fraught question.
    — Theodore Gioia, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2020
  • As the dust settles from the blitzkrieg of the first few days, public awareness of these and other unpopular measures will increase.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
  • As Hüsker Dü jelled into a blitzkrieg hardcore trio, the bond between Mould and Hart deepened.
    — Jason Heller, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2017
  • That happened following last fall’s immigration blitzkrieg in the region.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026
  • This commercial blitzkrieg inevitably convinced some people that women’s advancement had come at men’s expense.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
  • And fear is what’s driving this week’s blitzkrieg of Attorney General William Barr.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 2 May 2019
  • These are the latest in Domino’s promotional blitzkrieg of 2023.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Yam laid the groundwork for his coverage of the Taliban’s blitzkrieg takeover of Afghanistan with diligent previous work in the country.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2022
  • During the Crimson Tide’s first-quarter blitzkrieg, Johnson failed to shed a block and tackle a receiver in the flats.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Sep. 2021
  • In the video, a smiling Bushell bounces her sticks off the floor, hits a pummeling double-kick drum and blasts out double-time beats to go along with the track of Em’s verbal blitzkrieg.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2022
  • But that all ended in 2014, when Islamic State launched its blitzkrieg across Iraq’s northern regions.
    — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 17 June 2018

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