strafe
verb
, especially British ˈsträf\
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Local news outlets report gunfire strafed the inside and parking lot of the Stadium Ultralounge & Bar early Saturday, apparently beginning after a fight where videos show one man breaking a bottle over another man’s head. — Time, "7 Wounded in Louisiana Nightclub Shooting," 30 June 2019 The next wave of ponytailed Americans in crisp white uniforms attacked with the same zeal, strafing Chile's outstanding goalkeeper, Christiane Endler, with three scoring attempts in the first three minutes. — Liz Clarke, courant.com, "US women’s national team’s joy is only rivaled by the exuberance of its fans," 17 June 2019 Allied air forces flew more than 9000 sorties Wednesday, bombing, and strafing the enemy from the Normandy beachheads to 100 miles inside of France. — Houston Chronicle, "FIRST INVASION GOAL REACHED," 9 June 2019 Planes that dropped paratroopers on D-Day, bombed German defenses and strafed Panzer units may well have been flown first by women from factories on their way to the front, where men were at the controls. — Fox News, "Women at war: Backstage heroines in D-Day's 75th anniversary," 8 June 2019 In the months leading up to the Normandy invasion, targets up and down the French coastline were bombed and strafed by allied airpower. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Watch U.S. Army Rangers Scale The Same Cliff Their Forebears Did on D-Day," 6 June 2019 The gun is designed for very close range air-to-air fighting or strafing targets on the ground. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "A Dutch F-16 Flew Into Its Own Gunfire," 8 Apr. 2019 Coalition aircraft strafed the mountain a day before our arrival, firing 12 rockets. — Jonathan Spyer, WSJ, "ISIS Finds a Niche in Northern Iraq," 5 Dec. 2018 But before the squad’s plane reaches their drop point, it’s strafed with enemy fire. — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, "Overlord is a gloriously entertaining piece of B-movie schlock," 9 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'strafe.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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