Example sentences for: airstrikes

How can you use “airstrikes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Time stresses the historical angle, calling the Balkans a centuries-old "tinderbox" that the NATO airstrikes will ignite.

  • The NYT reports that the American negotiator Richard Holbrooke did not persuade Milosevic to allow the international war crimes tribunal to have jurisdiction in the region, and the LAT passes along the concerns of some analysts that the Serbs might take some observers hostage, thus boxing out NATO's ability to deter Milosevic via the threat of airstrikes.

  • The Wall Street Journal reports that military planners of possible airstrikes against Iraq have become less confident of the U.S. ability to bomb biological weapons sites in Iraq after a secret Air Force test in which a special bomb that was expected to incinerate a stockpile of anthrax-like germs instead spread them.

  • USAT reports that NATO officials are scheduled to meet today in Brussels to approve an order that gives allied military commanders the authority to order airstrikes against Serbian forces.

  • Arab newspapers are now warning their readers that the current escalation of United States airstrikes on Iraq could culminate in a major military offensive aimed at bringing down President Saddam Hussein.


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