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Example sentences for "raided"

Lexicographically close words:
rahat; rahim; rahnd; rahs; raid; raider; raiders; raiding; raids; raies
  1. Luke Trull had not yet raided his muskrats, and at least as much as anything else, his own hot-headedness was responsible for his present predicament.

  2. The five colonies that had been ravished--and Andy was sure that owls had raided them--were easy to locate.

  3. The Chicago offices were raided some time later; over one hundred and sixty leaders of the organization from all parts of the country were indicted as a result of the examination of the wagon-load of papers and documents seized.

  4. The Federal Government, after an extended inquiry through the secret service, raided the Detroit headquarters of the I.

  5. The Roden boys were all much of a size, and on the subject of raided and disputed garments a fierce border warfare raged unintermittently round their bedroom doors.

  6. He was, he asserted, chief of that one of the Dark Islands which had been raided by the brig.

  7. They had raided there aforetime, and fought more than one bloody battle on the white beach of the lagoon.

  8. Old men are still living in the tribe who have raided as far south as the city of Durango (which they know by this name) and southwest through Sonora and Sinaloa to the Gulf of California.

  9. When the Sioux raided into the United States, the soldiers and the Crow scouts were waiting.

  10. Still, he worked hard, and all was going smoothly, when without warning some bad white men raided the gathered cattle, and killed one of the herders.

  11. The Bosche now bombarded furiously, and on the 9th of April (Easter Monday) he raided the Battalion on the immediate left of the Civil Service Rifles, causing pretty heavy casualties.

  12. As a sample of the frightfulness that could be served up in the Salient, it was fairly complete, and the Civil Service Rifles, although not in the raided trenches, lost thirteen killed and eighteen wounded during the night.

  13. He was then raided by another Frenchman, Giraudiere.

  14. He established himself at Pentegoet, on or near the site of the old fort, where Castine now stands; he raided and was raided; in time of peace making money by trade, in time of war joining in the border forays.

  15. The Five Nations hunted and raided far beyond the limits of their cantons.

  16. War went on for some little time longer, and the English raided the tribes of the Penobscot.

  17. In the church of Goulven is to be seen an ancient tablet representing the Norse vessels which raided the coast.

  18. The coast was raided by the Norsemen, and the Bretons, led by their chief, Even the Great, marched against them and succeeded in repelling them.

  19. Elmer had to explain how his chum's cap chanced to be found that morning under the raided trees, when it was lost the evening previous away over on the bank of the little Sunflower River.

  20. It is just that, for my premises were invaded last night by some bold thieves, who raided my choice peach trees, and almost cleaned them of the prize fruit that I would not have taken its weight in silver for.

  21. The enemy raided on the 24th, and occupied for a short period a gun-pit post.

  22. One company of the London Rifle Brigade suddenly raided at 3 o’clock in the afternoon on the 12th June south of the Cambrai road.

  23. On the 30th November the enemy raided the 7th Middlesex, who occupied as part of their line a mine-crater.

  24. On the 21st May the 8th Middlesex raided near the Tilloy-Wancourt road and captured four prisoners and a machine gun.

  25. They robbed banks, raided villages, burned buildings, and looted and plundered wherever there was loot or plunder to be had.

  26. That night the Indians unexpectedly raided our horses, and ran off five or six of the best work-teams.

  27. With vicarious generosity, the English Government gave very lenient terms to the Kaffir tribes who in 1834 had raided the border farmers.

  28. To the east they raided Zululand, and succeeded, in defiance of the British settlement of that country, in tearing away one third of it and adding it to the Transvaal.

  29. They raided cattle upon the outskirts, but made no attempt to rush the defence.

  30. On June 13th the youthful and dashing Scheepers, who commanded his own little force at an age when he would have been a junior lieutenant of the British army, raided Murraysburg and captured a patrol.

  31. A squadron of German cruisers raided the English coast.

  32. A German submarine raided the harbor of Dover, England.

  33. London was raided by a Zeppelin, killing ten persons.

  34. On several occasions, bodies of horsemen in the service of the adventurous Haidar Ali of Mysore, raided the country almost up to the Fort ditch, and were sometimes to be seen shaking their spears in defiance at the sentries on its walls.

  35. Black Town was at first without any wall, and, as the times were unsettled, the place was exposed to the serious danger of being raided by any adventurous band of marauders.

  36. But, like Tamale Jose, they had raided once too often.

  37. Tamale Jose had raided once too often, and prosperity and plenty had followed on the ranches and the losses had been forgotten until the fall round-ups clearly showed that rustlers were again at work.

  38. Recently, when one in Hester Street was raided because the neighbors had complained of the boisterous hilarity of the hags over their beer, thirty two aged "scrubs" were marched off to the station-house.

  39. June 15th--Enemy blew | up by mines and | raided part of front ( line.

  40. The point to be raided was a short sap known as "Italy Sap," running out from the Boche front line about 300 yards away.

  41. One night, when the 7th Battalion were in the line, they were raided after a very heavy bombardment, in which they suffered several casualties.

  42. Nell had disappeared, along with everybody else when the police raided the Temple.

  43. Up in the lumber country of the far Northwest, in a little town called Centralia, the "wobblies" had had their headquarters raided and smashed, just as in American City.

  44. Michael made no end of wailing, because he had a wife and three babies, and he set up the claim that when the "bulls" had raided his home they had stolen all his savings, two or three hundred dollars.

  45. The same day Turkish torpedo boats raided Odessa, sank and damaged several ships, and bombarded the town.

  46. As she could not do so, she concluded that the Germans had raided the island and destroyed the wireless station.

  47. It was but a few hours afterwards that the innkeeper’s premises were raided by the excise, who seized the whisky and procured a conviction at the next Assizes, where he was heavily fined.

  48. That all these facts should have been contemporaneously known, and Gray’s store not have been raided by the Revenue, points to an almost inconceivable state of lawlessness.

  49. This observation post was raided several times by New Zealanders before the Suvla landing.

  50. We Yusufzais came down at night and lifted the cattle and raided the villages, and we laughed at Ranjit Singh's army that followed, for we knew that we had a good start, and the Sikhs would not venture into the hills.

  51. A few years ago he was a well-known outlaw and brigand chief, who raided and burnt villages and robbed right and left.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raided" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.