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US
/ˈbɫɪtsˌkɹiɡ/
]
[ UK /blˈɪtskɹɪɡ/ ]
[ UK /blˈɪtskɹɪɡ/ ]
VERB
- fight a quick and surprising war
NOUN
- a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment
How To Use blitzkrieg In A Sentence
- And though he acted with what seemed at the time like blitzkrieg aggressiveness, he regretted in later years that he hadn't moved even faster.
- Incidentally, the German Wehrmacht never officially used the word blitzkrieg -- literally, "lightning war" -- though it did appear in several prewar German military publications. Wired Top Stories
- George "Your use of the word blitzkrieg shows either a total ignorance of military tactics or a total ignorance of exactly what the IDF did in Gaza and and what speed. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- In today's world of media blitzkrieg and instant entertainment, one quality separates the winners from the losers.
- The assault was a blitzkrieg attack made possible by months of planning.
- Note also that Adams is so dozy as to include in his blitzkrieg on the overuse of ‘basically’ a sentence that commits precisely the same sort of lexical naughtiness. “Attacks” on the language are greatly misunderstood
- He takes a blitzkrieg approach to home-buying. Times, Sunday Times
- The German military in World War 2 achieved most of its great victories with the Blitzkrieg tactic.
- Was it a plan to build a last secure bunker in the Lena Valley if Leningrad and Moscow fell to the blitzkrieg?
- The wide, open plains of Poland were ideally suited to the rapid movement of tanks central to a blitzkrieg attack.