Below you will find example sentences with "drone attack". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Drone Attack in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: drone
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 27 words

Words in this phrase

drone attack

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • drone can mean: A male ant, bee, or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen. Frequent word
  • attack can mean: An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

a reported drone attack in moscow 2× a fatal drone attack on an 1× a suspected drone attack 1× been a drone attack 1× drone attack on a 1× following the drone attack on a 1× if a drone attack like this 1× in a drone attack in northern 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a gabon flagged 1× a specialist inspects 1× as per reports 1× day 391 of 1× dramatic video footage 1× drone attack on 1×

Common sentence endings:

a drone attack 1× a high school 1× attack in moscow 1× by iran itself 1× dangerous attack happening 1× defense forces idf 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

iran 8× iranian 4× moscow 4× israel 3× oil 3× members 3× damaged 3× reported 3× city 3× may 2× saudi 2× missile 2×

Related phrases

terror attack drone attacks hamas attack heart attack terrorist attack drone delivery knife attack drone strikes fatal attack drone operators

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around drone:

drone attacks 12× drone delivery 7× drone strikes 6× drone operators 5× ukrainian drone 5×

Just before it in the phrase index:

driving whilst driving causing drives past driver seat driver license drinking water

Just after it in the phrase index:

drone attacks drone delivery drone operators drone strikes drop box drop kick

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

drone attacks drone delivery drone strikes drone operators

Same ending:

terror attack hamas attack heart attack terrorist attack knife attack fatal attack

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "drone attack" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a reported drone attack in moscow, a fatal drone attack on an, iran, iranian and moscow stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with terror attack, drone attacks, hamas attack, drone attacks, drone delivery and drone strikes, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with drone attack

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Drone attack on a high school? (6 words)

Israel said the attack thwarted an Iranian-orchestrated drone attack squad. (11 words)

Ed added: “It is the safest place to be in case of any missile or drone attack. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

Also, the US Navy has blamed Iran for a series of limpet mine attacks on vessels that damaged tankers in 2019, as well as for a fatal drone attack on an Israeli-linked oil tanker that killed two European crew members in 2021. (43 words)

In late March, US forces retaliated with airstrikes on sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard following a suspected Iran-linked drone attack that killed a US contractor and wounded six other Americans in northeast Syria. (41 words)

It is not out of the realm of possibility that Mossad launched them and may have staged both the Lebanon drone base attack to set up and make more plausible, the accusation of Iran for the Saudi Drone attack. (39 words)

Question examples

Drone attack on a high school? (6 words)

Example sentences (20)

It is not out of the realm of possibility that Mossad launched them and may have staged both the Lebanon drone base attack to set up and make more plausible, the accusation of Iran for the Saudi Drone attack.

The attack was more effective than Iran’s completely intercepted April missile and drone attack on Israel, but still to inflict significant damage or casualties, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

The Americans were concerned that the outrage over the drone attack could lead to attacks on the American military by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq or a retaliatory attack by Iran itself.

Following the drone attack on a major Saudi oil processing plant on September 14, Pompeo has been adamant that Iran was behind the attack and it was targeted to hurt 'the world'.

Israel said the attack thwarted an Iranian-orchestrated drone attack squad.

Reporter Justin Rowlatt (pictured) will delve into the dangers drones pose and if a drone attack like this could be stopped in the future and what the odds are of a more dangerous attack happening.

A Gabon-flagged commercial crude oil tanker with 25 Indian crew members also came under a drone attack in the Southern Red Sea on Saturday but no one was injured, according to Indian officials and the US military.

Also, the US Navy has blamed Iran for a series of limpet mine attacks on vessels that damaged tankers in 2019, as well as for a fatal drone attack on an Israeli-linked oil tanker that killed two European crew members in 2021.

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A specialist inspects the damaged facade of a multi-story apartment building after a reported drone attack in Moscow on May 30, 2023.

As per reports, senior western intelligence officials said that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Aerospace Force was preparing a drone attack against Israeli-owned civilian merchant ships travelling in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.

Day 391 of WW3: Ukrainian drone attack in Dzhankoi Crimea destroys cruise missiles and damages important rail hub.

Dramatic video footage has shown a fuel tank ablaze in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol from a suspected drone attack.

Drone attack on a high school?

Ed added: “It is the safest place to be in case of any missile or drone attack.

Firefighters and a police officer stand next to a damaged building Tuesday in the “Moscow City” business district after a reported drone attack in Moscow.

In Kharkiv, civilian infrastructure was hit in a drone attack, said the city's mayor Ihor Terekhov.

In late March, US forces retaliated with airstrikes on sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard following a suspected Iran-linked drone attack that killed a US contractor and wounded six other Americans in northeast Syria.

In Moscow, residents reported hearing explosions and Mayor Sergei Sobyanin later confirmed there had been a drone attack.

Iran said Sunday a night-time drone attack had targeted a defence ministry site, at a time of high tensions over its nuclear programme and Russia’s war in Ukraine.

President Biden ordered retaliatory strikes Monday against Iranian-backed militia groups after three U.S. service members were injured in a drone attack in Northern Iraq.

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