I spent an hour this morning strafing everybody in the cook-house.
From a mouth never empty, though he swallowed fast, came in short gushes the story of the strafing of the Prussian Guard, told at last to ears which drank in greedily every word of it.
Because of the poor condition of the airstrips and the scarcity of available aircraft, however, it was announced on 31 October that only "sporadic bomb support by the heavy bombers" and strafing could be accomplished.
The principal bombing and strafing targets were revetments, dispersal areas, supply dumps, and bivouac areas, together with aircraft on islands near Leyte.
In planning for the amphibious landing, the Fifth Air Force had ordered the 308th Bombardment Wing to conduct bombing and strafing missions, in addition to providing cover for the movement.
Fortunately there was no bombing or strafing of the area, and although the development of exit roads was slow, the congestion on the beach was cleared before trouble developed.
After strafing the shore the companies landed, meeting no resistance.
If so much as a face was pulled at a twinkling eye across the way, another day's strafing was added to the penalty.
I was awakened, my teeth chattering horribly, hearing the Brigadier-General strafing somebody!
Colonel Best-Dunkley came on the scene, and startedstrafing one or two people about something.
By reason of our dummy guns and the strafing they got, and the fact that our guns still were firing, he believed that the farmer had given him a bunco steer, and he lost no time in making good his word.
It did not take us long to see that a pretty thorough strafing had been going on, yet so dead beat to the utter exhaustion point were we, that we had failed to hear them.
Instant orders were given us to take cover as a strafing was in sight, and we shot out of the gun pit, jumped into the trench and ran along.
The previously aborted air strike returned at 0855 for five minutes of noisy but ineffective strafing along the beaches, the pilots again heeding their wristwatches instead of the progress of the lead LVTs.
The planes would return for a final strafing run at H-minus-five, then shift to inland targets as the Marines stormed ashore.
Suddenly, at 0610, the aircraft appeared, bombing and strafing the island for the next few minutes.
Admiral Kelly Turner had specifically provided all players in Operation Galvanic with this admonition: “Times of strafing beaches with reference to H-Hour are approximate; the distance of the boats from the beach is the governing factor.
Before Seton and his companion, having completed their task of strafing the Hun gunner, could hurl their bombs, a fusillade of pistol shots rang out.
Good bag that," remarked the Lieutenant-Commander in dispassionate tones, as if Fritz-strafing was a less exciting occupation than hunting rats.
Thought that Hun wasstrafing you," remarked the young officer.
A big "affair" was in progress--one of those furious exchanges of strafing that are airily referred to in the official reports as "an activity of some magnitude.
T'other day a Zepp was strafing us, and you strafed the Zepp.
Far beneath them a squadron of British aeroplanes was actively engaged, for the British guns were strafing the Huns with terrible violence.
The ship let down, while the six combat-cars which had accompanied her buzzed the Palace roof, strafing it to keep it clear, and the Kragans aboard fired with their rifles.
Jerry had been strafingus for two days without a stop and of our platoon of twenty-three men only seven came out alive.
Jerry must have found some extra shells for he was strafing pretty heavily.
You might think that if there'd been no particular artillery strafing going on there would be no necessary repair work for the men to do in the trench.
They're as keen as mustard to get to the strafing of Boches; but that's because the Boche is the enemy, war is war, and duty is duty.
There's something doing in thestrafing line pretty nearly all the time; and strafing is a deal more interesting than navvying, pumping, and mud-shovelling.
I said in my last letter that I'd tell you about our little strafing stunts while we were in Petticoat Lane.
Well, what are the signallersstrafing about, anyhow?
During all the rest of this quiet night of no strafing there was just "normal fire.
Everything naturally gives way to strafing considerations, and at times urgent repairing work makes it necessary to forgo half or all the day rest-time.
Unless there is real strafing going on the trenches grow pretty silent after midnight.
The ineffectual strafing continued for nearly a quarter of an hour.
After five minutes' strafing he disappeared, but goodness knows how he managed to get through that little slit.
He attempted to reach the only flyable F4F, but strafing Zeroes twice forced him away.
Enduring bombing andstrafing attacks from Japanese planes, around noon the Marines at Battery L spotted small boats standing toward the channel between Wilkes and Wake, and observed several transports and warships lying about 4,000 yards out.
The strafingkilled two civilians, Paul Gay and Eric Bryan, and wounded Major Putnam, Second Lieutenant Hanna, and Corporal Holewinski.
After about 15 minutes, dive bombers directed bombs and strafing toward the position, the battery’s firing having called attention to its existence.
The missile had detonated, but just as it did, the Hind's strafing caught Odyssey II right down the middle, shearing her in half.
He steadied the Walther, on semiautomatic, and began firing-- oblivious to the line of strafing coming his way.
Vance's mind flashed a picture of Ramirez strafingthe Navy frigate, shooting the SatCom technician.
This action so kept the Japanese defenders down that the Marines in the leading waves were upon them before they recovered from the shock of the strafing planes.
Stout’s pilots immediately recognized the situation, resumed their strafingof Ngesebus until the LVTs were within 30 yards of the beach.
Navy fighter aircraft, strafing north and south along the length of the beach defenses, parallel to the assault waves, trying to keep all beach defenders subdued and intimidated as the Marines closed the defenses.
A plane has been strafing us," announced his brother-officer.
He drops them occasionally on the high road well behind our lines on the off chance ofstrafing some of our chaps.
Within a desperate Hun still lurked, and finding Archer and the two men in the open he had hurled a bomb in the hope of strafing the Englishmen.
I'm wondering if its pilot knew that von Khole was on the train, and his strafing was some kind of a message that didn't please von Khole at all.
Another yammering burst from the strafing plane and jerked Dave's eyes back to the window.
And the strafing plane was some kind of a signal for you, too, wasn't it?
Well," I replied, "I had intended going there till a moment ago, but the strafing seems to get worse.
Continuing the repeated aerial strikes which had begun weeks earlier from the carriers, waves of planes swept in low for bombing and strafing runs.
So he asked the pilot to go in on a strafing attack, and then as they came over he was going to continue raking them with the machine guns.
One could never be sure that eachstrafing was not the preliminary to an assault.
After gassing us and strafing us heavily a raid in considerable force was sent over by the Germans.
A recruit, arriving one night as a replacement, got there just in time for a heavy strafing that the Germans were delivering.
The strafing stopped, the first-aid men worked in, and Fenessey was carried to the rear.
The Huns were strafing heavily and an attack by them was expected.
Our only chance is to slip through when they're strafing one night; even then the odds are a hundred to one against us.
There's no strafing to-night, and the Huns are bound to hear your engine.
With a grim nod for emphasis, Dawson twisted the little button on the stick to "Fire" position, and made sure that everything was set to release the cluster of twenty small strafing bombs fitted to the under side of the wings.
And when he was little more than a few feet over the leading truck, Dawson dumped the last of his lightstrafing bombs, and instantly nosed upward for altitude.
But there was nothing crazy or silly about Dawson's guns, or the lightstrafing bombs fitted under his wings.
He was low, but this time the gunners were looking for low-flying bombers andstrafing planes.
Swinging inshore, Stan knifed after a Focke-Wulf 190 which was strafingthe barges.
With a range of visibility of fifty or sixty miles she was of far more service to the discomfited German High Seas Fleet in warning them of the position of their victors than in strafing a solitary destroyer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strafing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
