Example sentences for: raids

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

  • The Civil War ended with some 700,000 combatants dead on both sides; another 30,000 were executed or assassinated, including many priests and nuns; and perhaps 15,000 civilians were killed in air raids.

  • Special Operations Forces were later told that they might be ordered to attempt very high-risk in-and-out raids either in Khartoum, to capture a senior Bin Ladin operative known as Abu Hafs the Mauritanian- who appeared to be engineering some of the plots-or in Kandahar, to capture Bin Ladin himself.

  • It is quite possible to think that it is best for government to have a copy of each and every communication that takes place across the net; and someone armed with that conviction could think it proper to stage nighttime raids in private homes to shut down nonconforming machines.

  • Arab newspapers were predictably critical of the bombing raids.

  • The Phase Two strikes and raids began on October 7. The basing arrangements contemplated for Phase One were substantially secured-after arduous effort-by the end of that month.


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