Below you will find example sentences with "air strikes". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Air Strikes in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: strikes
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 16
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.4 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "air strikes" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as after russian air strikes killed at, air strikes also hit, force, killed and war stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with air force, air pollution and air ambulance, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with air strikes
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Air alerts wailed across Ukraine after Russian air strikes killed at least six people in the south. (17 words)
Two-man Tactical Air Control Parties focus on directing air strikes in support of other ground forces. (17 words)
After losing their outposts, the junta forces conducted air strikes, in which four local residents were injured. (17 words)
He said both the Army and Air Force troops have launched ground and air strikes that have killed the bandits’ families – wives and children – which have angered them, as they see it as a war, hence they reacted with new attacks and abductions. (43 words)
Four Syrian soldiers and two Iran-backed fighters were killed last Monday in pre-dawn Israeli air strikes near Damascus, the Observatory said at the time, in the latest deadly Israeli air raid to hit war-torn Syria's capital. (40 words)
Chandigarh: While supporting the air strikes inside Pakistan by the Indian Air Force, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday said that “any government of the day, including the Congress, would have retaliated after the Pulwama (terror) attack”. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
These aircraft primarily provided Combat Air Patrol duties, although, late in the air war, began to perform air strikes on Iraqi ground targets.
Fierce clashes occurred in other eastern cities and towns including Mariinka and Avdiivka in the Donetsk region, according to a Ukrainian General Staff report, which said Russians conducted four missile strikes and 45 air strikes Sunday.
Viewpoint: Balakot air strikes raise stakes in India-Pakistan stand-offAir strikes across the border have escalated tensions but it's unclear how Pakistan will respond, writes Ajai Shukla.
An air raid alert was declared across Ukraine and explosions rang out in the capital and surrounding regions on Friday, after Moscow launched a wave of long-range air strikes at targets from the front.
Four Syrian soldiers and two Iran-backed fighters were killed last Monday in pre-dawn Israeli air strikes near Damascus, the Observatory said at the time, in the latest deadly Israeli air raid to hit war-torn Syria's capital.
Hours later, Turkey’s Air Force carried out air strikes on suspected PKK sites in northern Iraq, where the group’s leadership is based.
Since the military’s illegal coup attempt, the junta has increasingly used the air force for reconnaissance and to launch indiscriminate air strikes as a key part of its campaign of terror.
Air alerts wailed across Ukraine after Russian air strikes killed at least six people in the south.
He said both the Army and Air Force troops have launched ground and air strikes that have killed the bandits’ families – wives and children – which have angered them, as they see it as a war, hence they reacted with new attacks and abductions.
The Air Component of Operation Delta Safe, has destroyed illegal oil refining sites in air strikes in Krakama and Temakiri, Degema Local Government Area of Rivers.
The Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole under subsidiary ‘Operation Hail Storm 2’, has eliminated scores of terrorists in massive air strikes on their camps in Borno.
The cause of the crash remains unknown, but it occurred shortly after Iran’s retaliatory air strikes on two U.S. air bases in Iraq.
Two-man Tactical Air Control Parties focus on directing air strikes in support of other ground forces.
Chandigarh: While supporting the air strikes inside Pakistan by the Indian Air Force, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday said that “any government of the day, including the Congress, would have retaliated after the Pulwama (terror) attack”.
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said its aircraft killed scores of Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) at Yuwe in Borno, through successful air strikes.
AFP correspondents witnessed dozens of air strikes over 30 minutes on Thursday morning in the direction of Al-Shati camp and in the blockaded strip's north.
After losing their outposts, the junta forces conducted air strikes, in which four local residents were injured.
Air strikes also hit a weapons storage facility, and an operational command centre used by the Islamic Jihad militant group, it added.
All routes out of Gaza are closed, as Israel continues its air strikes in response to Hamas' attack of 7 October.
All water wells, water pumping stations, and desalination plants providing drinking water, have been damaged by air strikes or shut due to power cuts.