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Example sentences for "raiding"

Lexicographically close words:
rahs; raid; raided; raider; raiders; raids; raies; raight; raign; raigne
  1. Ho, the roof shall be red O'er the heretic's head, For bold Pappenheim's raiding the lea!

  2. Men who join it, intending merely to look on, are carried away by excitement, and soon find themselves cursing and fighting, burning and raiding with the foremost.

  3. At first I thought you fellows were raiding somebody," he went on.

  4. How do you know we are not raiding somebody's ore shed?

  5. We don't expect to do any raiding around here this summer.

  6. Lone-wolf's son was wounded in the knee a year ago last summer while raiding in Texas, and came near losing his life.

  7. No better illustration of the wide range of the Kiowa could be given than the fact that while one band was thus raiding in Mexico another, as we have just seen, was visiting upon the upper Missouri.

  8. Shortly after the removal to the Washita, a small raiding party went to Texas.

  9. In 1871 a large raiding party killed seven men in Texas, torturing one over a fire, and capturing a number of mules.

  10. A part of them were procured by withholding rations from the band that had them, and a part were obtained by means of the leverage that Colonel Mackenzie gave by taking a hundred women and children from a raiding camp to Texas.

  11. War parties of the Kiowa and allied tribes formerly made these mountains their headquarters for raiding upon the adjoining portions of Mexico.

  12. In these raiding expeditions they frequently made headquarters in the Sierra Madre, whence they descended upon the lower country on each side.

  13. To show their good will, however, a party of Comanche volunteered to assist a detachment of troops in bringing in any of their young men who might then be raiding in Texas.

  14. It was certainly a case of the pot calling the kettle black, as the principal business of both tribes for generations, until confined to a reservation, was that of raiding their southern neighbors in order to obtain horses and captives.

  15. Sometimes they told the raiding soldiers where the property was concealed, and at others they ran away without telling even their masters where the valuables were hidden.

  16. Father hid on Bruin's Island while the Yankees were raiding through here," thought David.

  17. On second thoughts, is the co-operative raiding of plantations by baboons something altogether different from hunting in pack?

  18. But the bush is the porters' safeguard, and at the first scattering volley of the raiding party, they drop their loads and plunge into the undergrowth.

  19. One wonders that their spirits are so high, for they would get short shrift and little mercy from German raiding parties behind our advance.

  20. The danger of serious loss from attack by raiding surface craft had also been greatly minimized by the adoption of the convoy system.

  21. Never light this until you know the Indians are raiding west of the Christobal," were his orders.

  22. The second raiding party was so nearly cut off and so nearly annihilated in its flight to the Russian lines and activities on a broader scale so soon after were begun, that no further attempts of the kind were attempted.

  23. Forte managed to communicate to them the orders of their own Government, and as these were too unequivocal to be disregarded, the raiding career of the Petersburg and Smolensk forthwith came to an end.

  24. Failing the clue supplied by the draft on Paris, the case, so far as he was concerned, indeed, must have terminated with the raiding of the opium house.

  25. I had hoped to form one of the raiding party; but nom d'un nom!

  26. The raiding party established telephone communication from near the enemy's trench with commendable speed.

  27. Whelan, Battalion Scouts, for continuous bold patrolling before the raid and disregard of danger during its progress, while laying tapes in No Man's Land and leading the raiding parties to and from their positions.

  28. We visited the scene of the raiding party's exit from the line, and the smears of recent blood on the duck-boards and the pieces of field-dressing lying about similarly stained told their own story.

  29. On March 29th the raiding party was reduced from two companies to one, and the date was advanced to the 31st; and the next evening the remaining company were also told they would not be required.

  30. The only people who really appreciated the spell out of the line were the raiding party.

  31. June 20th, the raiding party left Rossignol Farm for Chateau de la Haie, where they arrived at 3.

  32. For the first night or two strong fighting patrols lay up in No Man's Land in the hope of catching the enemy raiding party.

  33. In consequence, after passing through the first gap, a doubt arose as to direction owing to other members of the raiding party thinking that they knew best, with the result that several parties tried to get through impassable wire.

  34. On June 18th the enemy, no doubt encouraged by a previous success, sent over another raiding patrol.

  35. The raiding party were brought up in lorries to the Houplines Level Crossing after dark, each man with his face blackened and his label, bearing number and name, tied to the top button of his jacket.

  36. Calhoun protested vigorously against the raiding of his offices.

  37. On returning to Jamestown they found that the Indians had been raiding the settlement, the colonists at the time being all at work and taken completely by surprise.

  38. He secured a commission from the King to go slave-raiding in Benin, on the coast of Africa.

  39. One reason for this is that raiding craft, which are comparatively slow machines, are so heavily laden with bombs that they are only able to perform straight flying and hence are easily brought down by the fast and quick-turning battle-planes.

  40. Some went to the eastward, raiding the coast for food, and snapping up small coasting vessels.

  41. It happened that, at this juncture, some buccaneers, who were raiding in the woods, made prisoner a negro carrying letters from the Governor of the Havana.

  42. She had just landed some soldiers on the Main, to quell some Indians, who had been raiding on the frontier.

  43. A percentage of the spoil was always paid to the Governor, while the constant raiding on the Main prevented the Spaniards from attacking the new colony in force.

  44. We ranged in these mountains for over a year, raiding the Mexican settlements for our supplies, but not having any general engagement with Mexican troops; then we returned to our homes in Arizona.

  45. Our camp was near Nacori, and we had just organized bands of warriors for raiding the country, when our scouts discovered Mexican troops coming toward our camp to attack us.

  46. In a few months after this last adventure I persuaded two other warriors to join me in raiding the Mexican frontier.

  47. The raiding flotillas ran down what are now the coasts of Denmark, North-West Germany, and Holland, and turned to right or left on Britain or Gaul, according to information or inclination.

  48. As it was obvious that Lisle was not to be drawn out, the French landed raiding parties in the Isle of Wight.

  49. Raiding bands at once began to burn and waste the heart out of the astounded peasantry; the foul treachery and suddenness of the attack made its success complete.

  50. His position was inaccessible, and he was able to rally the levies of the neighbourhood, and to commence a series of counter-attacks on the Danish raiding columns.

  51. Probably they were forced on by the disorder in Europe, and the pressure caused by the migrating Slavs and the raiding Avars with their kindred tribes.

  52. A raiding crush, sir," replied the latter to the unspoken question.

  53. While we've been on a wild goose chase Fritz is raiding our camp.

  54. Being a peaceful, pastoral, and agricultural people, they fell an easy prey to their warlike neighbours and the slave-raiding Arabs.

  55. On the way, he was taken prisoner by a raiding force of New York cavalry, and arrived, instead, at Old Capitol jail in Washington.

  56. The best Mosby could do was to launch small raiding parties to harass the work of destruction.

  57. About a week before, he had come raiding up from Culpepper with a strong force of cavalry, to spend a merry Christmas in northern Virginia and give the enemy a busy if somewhat less than happy New Year's.

  58. A few days later, while raiding to the east of Bull Run Mountain, Mosby was wounded again, and was taken to Lynchburg.

  59. He had not succeeded in raiding very far into the Cape Colony, but he had baffled and outwitted the most strenuous military effort of the war.

  60. At the end of May Dixon set out westwards from Naauwpoort in the Magaliesberg district on a raiding expedition.

  61. Benson subsequently did useful raiding work in the Carolina district, but was not strong enough to tackle Botha.

  62. On September 19, near Sannah's Post, he ambushed and destroyed a party of mounted infantry engaged in raiding a farm.

  63. Cut off from the main line of the Allied forces, the Americans were stormed under the protection of a heavy barrage fire by a German raiding party and engaged in a desperate hand-to-hand encounter.

  64. Here a careful inspection was made, and all unfit men left out, so that about fifteen hundred picked men, splendidly armed and equipped, constituted the final raiding force.

  65. A scale model of the redoubt was made near the bivouac area and the raiding party, 300 strong, under Major Findlay, began active rehearsals.

  66. As the result of this raid could not be said to have cleared the enemy of the extensive No Man's Land, the raid on Tank Redoubt had to be cancelled and the raiding party joined the Battalion in the line.

  67. Previously, parties of officers and men from the raiding party had gone out on patrol with the Royal Scots in order to familiarise themselves with the ground.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raiding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    banditry; depredation; foray; looting; marauding; pillage; pillaging; plunder; plundering; raid; rape; ravage; ravishment; sack; sacking; spoliation