Get to know Antiaircraft better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like defensive or flak.
Antiaircraft in a sentence
Antiaircraft meaning
Alternative spelling of anti-aircraft.
Using Antiaircraft
- The main meaning on this page is: Alternative spelling of anti-aircraft.
- Useful related words include: defensive, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack.
- In the example corpus, antiaircraft often appears in combinations such as: antiaircraft fire, antiaircraft guns, antiaircraft missile.
Context around Antiaircraft
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Antiaircraft
- In this selection, "antiaircraft" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, based, morning, drew, fire, guns and drills stand out and add context to how "antiaircraft" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and 37mm antiaircraft guns and by german antiaircraft artillery and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "antiaircraft" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with antiaircraft
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The RAF lost two aircraft to the Tirpitz’s antiaircraft guns. (11 words)
The bow's net cutter and the 20mm antiaircraft cannon were removed. (12 words)
The Chinese forces lacked antiaircraft weapons and suffered heavy casualties from Japanese bombers. (13 words)
This base was also used by LZ 85 to conduct two raids on Salonika in early 1916: a third raid on 4 May ended with it being brought down by antiaircraft fire. (32 words)
They noticed the antiaircraft fire, but it was not until a Japanese Aichi “Val” dive-bomber winged over and flashed the rising sun insignia that Patriarca knew something was very wrong. (31 words)
The cause of the airship's loss was not discovered by the Germans, who believed the Zeppelin had been brought down by antiaircraft fire from surface ships. (27 words)
Example sentences (16)
Activity aboard the Pennsylvania was even quieter than normal since she was excused, due to being drydocked, from the normal morning antiaircraft drills.
Beamish and Boyd both took evasive action, turning away sharply, which drew antiaircraft fire from the ships below.
The Chinese forces lacked antiaircraft weapons and suffered heavy casualties from Japanese bombers.
They noticed the antiaircraft fire, but it was not until a Japanese Aichi “Val” dive-bomber winged over and flashed the rising sun insignia that Patriarca knew something was very wrong.
The RAF lost two aircraft to the Tirpitz’s antiaircraft guns.
The shore-based antiaircraft gunnery defenses were aided by heavy booms installed in the fjord mooring’s mouth.
The Syrian air defense network in western Syria is very densely populated with antiaircraft missile and radar systems.
Altogether, in January, two Tomahawks were lost; one downed by German antiaircraft artillery and one lost to Messerschmitts.
Ensign Joe Taussig Jr., aboard USS, commanded the ship's antiaircraft guns and was severely wounded, but continued to be on post.
For maritime patrol services, these craft are usually quite well armed with machine guns and 37mm antiaircraft guns.
Soon supplies and reinforcements arrived and even some antiaircraft guns, giving the island a garrison of a few dozen weathermen and soldiers.
The bow's net cutter and the 20mm antiaircraft cannon were removed.
The cause of the airship's loss was not discovered by the Germans, who believed the Zeppelin had been brought down by antiaircraft fire from surface ships.
The MIM-104 Patriot and other ground-based antiaircraft systems use phased array radar for similar benefits.
The Zeppelin was the target of concentrated antiaircraft fire, but no hits were scored and the falling shrapnel caused both damage and alarm on the ground.
This base was also used by LZ 85 to conduct two raids on Salonika in early 1916: a third raid on 4 May ended with it being brought down by antiaircraft fire.
Common combinations with antiaircraft
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- antiaircraft fire 5×
- antiaircraft guns 4×
- antiaircraft missile 2×
- mm antiaircraft 2×
- by antiaircraft 2×