Below you will find example sentences with "drone attacks". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Drone Attacks in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: drone
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.8 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "drone attacks" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and 20 drone attacks overnight as, and suicide drone attacks against israeli, ukraine, missile and sea stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with terror attacks, drone attack, drone delivery, drone attack, drone delivery and drone strikes, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with drone attacks
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Before Ukraine, Israel had already been the target of drone attacks. (11 words)
Residents of eastern and southern Ukraine were warned of potential drone attacks Friday. (13 words)
Recent drone attacks have been aimed at targets from the Russian capital to the Russia-annexed Crimean Peninsula. (18 words)
Ukraine’s response, sea-drone attacks on a Russian oil tanker and a warship at its Novorossiysk naval base, next door to a major grain and oil port, has added to these new dangers for transport in the Black Sea. (40 words)
At least 130 Hezbollah operatives and some 20 civilians have been killed in Lebanon in attacks by Israel in response to rocket fire, anti-tank missile fire and suicide drone attacks against Israeli civilians and military posts by Hezbollah. (39 words)
This development has exposed the vulnerability of large surface vessels to drone attacks, and the need for the U.S. Navy to master this technology for its own offensive operations, as well as learn ways to defend against it. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
At least 130 Hezbollah operatives and some 20 civilians have been killed in Lebanon in attacks by Israel in response to rocket fire, anti-tank missile fire and suicide drone attacks against Israeli civilians and military posts by Hezbollah.
With the Houthis threatening further attacks, analyst Oanda senior market analyst Craig Erlam noted Saturday’s events had “highlighted the vulnerability of security at these facilities to drone attacks”.
Yemen’s Houthi group, which has been at war with the kingdom for over four years, said it had launched drone attacks on Saudi installations, without identifying the targets or time of the attacks.
According to Russia's Interfax news agency, passenger ferry transport had been suspended in the Black Sea port city as a result of the drone attacks.
According to the WSJ, Western-supplied air-defense systems are increasingly helping the Ukrainian military repel the Iranian drone attacks.
Before Ukraine, Israel had already been the target of drone attacks.
But an array of other drone attacks over the past three days did target U.S. bases, including one in southern Syria on Thursday that caused minor injuries.
Four destroyers, P-8I aircraft, Dorniers, Sea Guardians, helicopters and Coast Guard ships have been deployed to counter the threats of piracy and drone attacks, he said earlier at during the event.
In Belgorod in southern Russia, the governor said the Ukrainian military was responsible for dozens of artillery, mortar and drone attacks across the region but reported no casualties.
It is the latter location where the Iran-backed Houthi rebels have chosen to launch a spate of missile and drone attacks on US Navy units and merchant shipping.
Puts tires on top of its bombers to try to protect them from drone attacks hundreds of miles away from the front line.
Recent drone attacks have been aimed at targets from the Russian capital to the Russia-annexed Crimean Peninsula.
Residents of eastern and southern Ukraine were warned of potential drone attacks Friday.
Russian authorities on Tuesday reported a series of Ukrainian drone attacks across the country, including one that fell within 60 miles southeast of Moscow, hundreds of miles from the Ukrainian border.
Some of the 3,400 US troops in Iraq and Syria have nevertheless come under isolated and unprecise missile and drone attacks, apparently from various sub-state armed groups.
The Hamas-Israel conflict has also led to skirmishes in Syria and Iraq, from which Iran-backed militias have launched multiple drone attacks on US forces.
There have been a series of drone attacks in the Moscow region in recent months, which is about 450km (280 miles) from the border, including a wave of strikes on 30 May which damaged several buildings.
This development has exposed the vulnerability of large surface vessels to drone attacks, and the need for the U.S. Navy to master this technology for its own offensive operations, as well as learn ways to defend against it.
Ukraine said Sunday that it had repelled two Russian missile and 20 drone attacks overnight, as Moscow reported downing 33 drones fired from Ukraine.
Ukraine’s response, sea-drone attacks on a Russian oil tanker and a warship at its Novorossiysk naval base, next door to a major grain and oil port, has added to these new dangers for transport in the Black Sea.