Example sentences for: shootdown

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

  • Navy shootdown of an Iranian airliner, the "friendly fire" missile attacks on Allied troops during the Gulf War, the Tailhook sexual assaults, and the U.S.

  • It is not clear how the shootdown order was communicated within NORAD.

  • Also revealed was the previously unknown involvement of Bin Ladin's organization in the 1992 attack on a Yemeni hotel quartering U.S. military personnel, the 1993 shootdown of U.S.

  • On Air Force One, the President's press secretary was taking notes; Ari Fleischer recorded that at 10:20, the President told him that he had authorized a shootdown of aircraft if necessary.

  • Berger worried that a Predator might be shot down, and warned Clarke that a shootdown would be a "bonanza" for Bin Ladin and the Taliban.


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