How to Use counterstrike in a Sentence

counterstrike

noun
  • In the meantime, Russian forces have not simply hunkered down, but have launched their own counterstrikes.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2023
  • In fact, Adesanya could land a punch and get knocked out on a counterstrike and the $200 bonus would still convey.
    — Xl Media, cleveland, 2 July 2022
  • That triggered an Israeli counterstrike in Gaza.
    — David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Some of my friends may get divorced, lose their jobs, or be used as a human shield in an alien counterstrike to protect the Hive Queen.
    — Zoe Pear, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
  • In the meantime, Iran has launched counterstrikes on neighboring countries.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
  • In the meantime, Iran has launched counterstrikes on neighboring countries.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The pointed and very personal attack inevitably elicited a counterstrike from Trudeau a few hours later.
    — Paula Newton, CNN, 17 Sep. 2021
  • This is especially important in fast-moving conflict zones where exposure even for a short time can lead to counterstrikes.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 25 Mar. 2026
  • America's leadership has less than half an hour to decide whether to order a massive nuclear counterstrike.
    — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
  • By the standards of a church that rarely tries to clarify controversies — and indeed abides a certain level of mystery — its next step amounted to a bold counterstrike.
    — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The continuous strikes and counterstrikes have grown in severity in recent months, raising fears of an even more destructive regional war.
    — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Beijing is going to be able to go after more and different types of targets, do greater damage and have more options for multiple rounds of counterstrikes, the official said.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Under that scenario, strikes and counterstrikes would likely continue — and the death toll would rise, in Iran, among its allied groups, and perhaps in Israel as well.
    — Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Japan’s plan to purchase hundreds of Tomahawk cruise missiles that will enable it to mount a counterstrike against attacks is part of that posturing, the official said.
    — Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2023
  • The Israelis launched counterstrikes in roughly equal measure, emphasizing that the violence was controlled.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • Japan’s development of a counterstrike capability in particular will require the two countries to work much more closely together.
    — Christopher Johnstone, Foreign Affairs, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The attacks and counterstrikes, combined with Iran’s ongoing blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, sent oil and natural gas prices soaring on global markets.
    — Peter Weber, TheWeek, 19 Mar. 2026
  • But Russia’s defensive strategy of aerial counterstrikes could slow Ukraine's campaign, giving Russian troops more time to lay down even more defenses.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 13 June 2023
  • Ongoing strikes and counterstrikes on Persian Gulf refineries, pipelines, gas fields and tanker terminals threaten to the prolong the global economic pain for months, even years.
    — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Ongoing strikes and counterstrikes on Persian Gulf refineries, pipelines, gas fields and tanker terminals threaten to the prolong the global economic pain for months, even years.
    — ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Notwithstanding the enormous gap between the two arsenals (which has never again been anywhere near as large), Washington was deterred by the risk of a Soviet counterstrike.
    — Jessica T. Mathews, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The range and severity of the attacks and Israel’s counterstrikes have escalated in recent weeks, raising fears of an all-out war that would have catastrophic consequences for people on both sides of the border.
    — Melanie Lidman and Samy Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2024
  • Qatar has been targeted by Iranian counterstrikes on its capital Doha, its airport, and other civilian and state infrastructure.
    — Justin Papp,pippa Stevens,dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,lee Ying Shan,vinay Dwivedi, CNBC, 2 Mar. 2026
  • In the inevitable counterstrikes, Lebanon, which has uneasily accommodated Hezbollah since the nineteen-eighties, would likely be destroyed.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • The most dangerous scenario is one in which an Indian military response provokes a stronger Pakistani counterstrike, setting off a chain reaction that neither side can easily control.
    — Sushant Singh, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The revelation that Japan is intent on fielding a longer-range counterstrike capability, with all the missiles this will entail, is evidence enough of a shift in Japanese defense strategy.
    — WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The region is currently bracing for Israel’s response to a ballistic missile barrage from Iran in late September and, in turn, a possible counterstrike from Iran.
    — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The regents’ vote last year was praised by many, including myself, as a significant counterstrike — indeed, one of the first in recent memory — against the steady encroachment of church restrictions into American healthcare.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
  • However, Japan’s decision to equip its ships with long-range missiles signals its broader effort to strengthen deterrence and maintain a credible counterstrike capability in the event of a potential attack.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Then Osama bin Laden unleashed the September 11th attacks, and, during the counterstrike, American warplanes dropped almost eighteen thousand bombs.
    — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2021

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