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Example sentences for "strafed"

Lexicographically close words:
straddled; straddles; straddling; strae; strafe; strafing; straggle; straggled; straggler; stragglers
  1. You didn't break any bones when you strafed me, and anyhow, I felt sorry for you.

  2. The place where we were going to has been rather too heavily strafed lately, so they are keeping us back here.

  3. The Boches apparently strafed back at an unoffending village on the west side of the hill.

  4. Wake up, Pat," he says, "wake up till I tell you how we strafed Fritz.

  5. Pity to rip up the strafed hooker when we have a chance of collaring her intact, isn't it?

  6. Leniency to prisoners and to interned Germans in England, instead of raising a spark of gratitude in the minds of the kultured Huns, was accepted as a token of moral weakness on the part of the strafed Englishmen.

  7. Nothing short of an earthquake or a few tins of explosives will clear a way until the Allies beat the strafed Huns absolutely to their knees.

  8. Because we cannot now reply to the strafed Huns.

  9. And the strafed Huns swore that their High Canal Fleet was out and off the east coast for over a fortnight," added another officer.

  10. I'll give you the word as soon as the strafed U-boat is sighted, if you don't finish before.

  11. Payment on Friday, and ten to one there'll be half a gale of wind--and paper money is a strafed nuisance.

  12. Between us there won't be a fish left alive in Half Way Deep, or a strafed U-boat either, I hope.

  13. Didn't spot her at that distance until she planked a bomb fairly on the strafed Hun's conning-tower--and she was only about a hundred and fifty feet up when she let rip.

  14. We aren't going to cut them adrift for a dozen strafed Zepps.

  15. Excuse me," said the padre, "I only strafed a bishop.

  16. The hiding place of the craft at Tabogon was frequently strafed by aircraft and shelled by submarines and motor torpedo boats, which kept the channel waters under sharp surveillance.

  17. At 1700, Japanese aircraft strafed the regiment and inflicted several casualties.

  18. The 13th Field Artillery Battalion laid maximum supporting fires on Hill B as naval bombers strafed it.

  19. At a point 1,500 yards south of Pawing naval flyers from the Seventh Fleet strafed the enemy and, in co-operation with the artillery fire, successfully broke the back of the offensive.

  20. The convoy was strafed and dispersed, leaving twenty to thirty-five trucks destroyed and many other vehicles, including two tanks, in flames.

  21. At 1410 naval dive bombers bombed and strafed the hill for ten minutes with very good results, and the Japanese power to resist was broken.

  22. Sorry to keep Senhor Portuguese on tenterhooks, but if we wirelessed him the strafed Hun might pick up the message.

  23. Their hopes were fully satisfied, or anyhow the Squadron’s more than were, because the Huns made a regular mark of the ’drome and strafed it night after night.

  24. With a beam-tube I'd ha' strafed him amidships," he concluded.

  25. Sometimes they began quite well, and went to pieces after they'd been strafed a little; but sometimes they picked up again.

  26. If I'd had a couple of twelves even, I could have strafed him proper.

  27. The remaining aircraft bombed and strafed the island for an hour, again with most of the ordnance hitting enemy-occupied territory.

  28. That mission almost had an unhappy ending when two Japanese planes appeared and strafed the PBYs as they sat on the water boarding the wounded.

  29. A flight of P-400s answered the call and strafed the exposed enemy groups.

  30. You heard how the men got strafed in their billets the other day?

  31. We moved to Hebuterne, where the line was very lively and the working parties used to be strafed with "Minnies" all night.

  32. At the time it was being heavily strafed by long-range guns.

  33. Story Without an Ending Our gun position lay just behind the Ancre, and Fritz generally strafed us for an hour or two each day, starting about the same time.

  34. I think, sir, that's as good as anywhere, but it's strafed rather badly.

  35. Well, you had better say good-bye to it; several of our ambulances have been strafed there.

  36. When he blew up the submerged vessel he was under the impression that he had strafed us, and so his Emperor gave him that potty decoration.

  37. One of their strafed raiders coming here to roost for a dead cert," quoth the Hon.

  38. I suppose the old man is dancing about on the bridge, wild with delight at having sent a strafed U-boat to the bottom.

  39. There was the devil to pay, and I heard it being played to the tune of the French soixante-quinzes, slashing over the trees.

  40. They came straggling back through the villages behind the lines to the casualty clearing--stations and ambulance-trains.

  41. In the near distance were the strafed woods of old battle-grounds like the Wytschaete Ridge and Messines, with their naked gallows-trees all blurred in the mist.

  42. From the ditches men fired at him with rifles, so he stooped low and strafed them, and then went home quite pleased with himself.

  43. As the creature drew nearer he opened his wings instinctively and strafed the air with his foreclaws.

  44. His shots went high and wide, and as he turned, the lead ship strafed his exposed underside.

  45. Personally he didn't care a rope's-end whether the strafed Englishmen had sunstroke or not, until it occurred to him that a number of invalids would hamper operations.

  46. Not for one moment did they suspect that he was one of the strafed Englishmen, whom they had every reason to suppose to be under lock and key.

  47. Somewhere from the vicinity of the wrecked bridge came a hoarse voice: "We want no favours from strafed Germans.

  48. Better than sitting tight in a muddy trench and being strafed day and night by Boche artillery; but I wish to goodness I'd been in the Dover Patrol.

  49. To complete the annihilation of the Japanese landing force, Marine dive bombers from Munda bombed and strafed the survivors on 9 November.

  50. Then, as if reluctant to sink into obscurity, the strafed U-boat disappeared from mortal ken for all time.

  51. The task was a hazardous one, but there was never any lack of men willing and eager to run the risk of being strafed for the sake of feeding their comrades in the firing-line.

  52. Even the prospect of being strafed by a British bomb did not cause them the slightest concern.

  53. It's been well strafed with shell fire already, but I suppose they have their guns down in deep dugouts there.

  54. Last night the Sumana was strafed again, and Tudway has been toiling all the evening at her defences.

  55. This seemed strange, as the village had not been strafed of late.

  56. Here and there one could see the entrance to a cellar; the charred stump of a strafed tree; the remains of a garden; or a bit of a cemetery.

  57. It was only a small strafed building in a ruined street when the Red Triangle first made its appearance in Dickebusch, but the secretary held that to be the most convenient type of Y.


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