Example sentences for: airstrikes

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

  • The old spin, articulated by Bob Dole in the Los Angeles Times : Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic is up to his old brutality and, if another Bosnia is to be averted, NATO must quickly impose a no-fly zone and threaten airstrikes.

  • ' " The story concluded with a dispatch from Independent correspondent Jason Burke, one of few Westerners in Afghanistan when the airstrikes occurred: "Our hope is that the Taliban may have struck a deal with the Americans, perhaps giving them the details of Bin Laden's whereabouts in return for recognition by Washington as the legal government of Afghanistan.

  • In the New Republic , Eliot A. Cohen counsels making "ousting Saddam a top priority," and pursuing that objective with airstrikes that "number in the thousands, not hundreds" and lasting over "weeks, not days."

  • Chris Dodd, D-Conn., observed on Face the Nation , "Patience and resolve are as important a weapon today as actually the airstrikes are."

  • Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin threatened to launch airstrikes against the Islamic government in Chechnya, which he accuses of supporting the week-old invasion of Dagestan by Chechen Islamic commandos.


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