air strike

noun

: an attack in which military airplanes drop bombs

The strategy calls for air strikes on key targets.

Examples of air strike in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

An American air strike on a PMF command headquarters in al-Anbar province killed 15 fighters; and another strike on an adjacent military base in al-Habbaniyah, which also houses a paramilitary camp, killed seven soldiers and wounded 13. —Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026

Stories harmful to Israel—false claims that Israel caused a famine as a weapon of war, or that an Israeli air strike destroyed a Gazan hospital—are reported credulously and corrected slowly, if at all. —David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026

Zahra was one of at least twenty-four people who were killed in the Israeli air strike on the Hamad Building. —Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026

When the news breaks of faraway civilian casualties — an erroneous air strike on a school that relied on outdated intelligence, for example — the mind takes refuge in abstractions and statistics. —Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026

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