strafe

How To Use strafe In A Sentence

• When a concentration begins on a battery, either the gunners must go to their dugouts or run beyond the range of the shells until the "strafe" is over. My Second Year of the War
• Remember that a well-placed strafe will chew up an airplane on the ground.
• Then further enemy aircraft arrived and bombed and strafed the patrol for several hours.
• In such cases the hunters may become the hunted, and may perchance be 'strafed' themselves. Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories
• He said that helicopter gunships and navy patrol boats had strafed the communities, and that scores of civilians had been killed.
• Overhead the Harriers and F-18s raced in to strafe the line of palm trees just inshore from the target beach. BALANCE OF POWER
• Nor have they the fine American hand for devising new verbs; to maffick, to limehouse, to strafe and to wangle are their best specimens in twenty years, and all have an almost pathetic flatness. Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation
• On this occasion the usual stoppages and checks were multiplied by a brisk artillery 'strafe' upon the front, accompanied by all manner of coloured lights and rockets. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
• The Amazon's Strafe skill now correctly enhances base bow damage rather than total bow damage.
• It's true that he does jolly good work when the Huns 'strafe' his wire and he has to go out and mend it, but he doesn't go forward in an attack; he sits in his dug-out and telephones like blazes for reinforcements while the Germans pepper his roof for him with 'whizz-bangs.' Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France