How to Use civil defense in a Sentence

civil defense

noun

• She's in training to be part of the local civil defense.
• The past four days have also seen artillery fire, the civil defense added.
  — Eyad Kourdi, CNN, 25 June 2023
• Talk of old-style civil defense sirens to warn of fast-moving wildfires.
  — Mark Thiessen, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2023
• His eldest son, who’d also been out with a civil defense unit, died in the blast.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2020
• Sallee recorded a video of the civil defense siren blaring at the wedding.
  — Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 28 May 2025
• The Lebanese civil defense forces said over 250 people were killed.
  — Marissa Sulek, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
• Members of Spain's civil guard and civil defense worked on site throughout the night.
  — CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
• The fire was put out by 16 civil defense brigades, according to the statement.
  — Qassim Abdul-Zahra, ajc, 17 Nov. 2022
• The bodies of two other children are missing, the civil defense said.
  — Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
• This is often voiced by the doctors and civil defense volunteers.
  — Kiran Nazish, Slate Magazine, 12 May 2017
• The bodies are strewn in the streets for 4 to 5 (days), maybe a week, and no civil defense can evacuate them.
  — Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN, 12 July 2024
• Members of the Civil Guard and civil defense worked on site throughout the night.
  — Dallas Morning News, 19 Jan. 2026
• Is there, like, a ready-to-go army or civil defense that’s in all the different tissues looking for any kind of trouble?
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• Contact had been lost with a civil defense crew west of Rafah that was trying to rescue an ambulance crew.
  — Abeer Salman, CNN, 23 Mar. 2025
• Lebanon's civil defense said earlier that one of its members was killed in an Israeli attack on the south.
  — CBS News, 8 May 2026
• That’s according to Gaza civil defense.
  — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
• For children who grew up during the Cold War era, civil defense training was part of going to school.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2020
• The elderly man who lives in front of them was being rescued by civil defense workers, who carried him atop a dining room chair.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
• To ease the burden, the White Helmets have merged with the regime-era civil defense first responders.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2025
• Some said civil defense workers did not arrive until later in the afternoon of the earthquake.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
• The report added that a number of victims are still under the rubble and on roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.
  — Abeer Salman, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
• Laze plumes travel with the wind and can shift directions without warning, the county civil defense agency said.
  — Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 20 May 2018
• The agency’s name would change over the years, but civil defense adapted to the evolving threats of the 20th century.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 10 Nov. 2020
• Gantz echoed the threats and implored the public to follow civil defense measures, such as gathering in shelters.
  — Zev Chafets, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
• As Lebanese and foreign civil defense teams comb through Beirut’s rubble, no one here knows the true number of missing.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2020
• Firefighters and civil defense teams worked with a helicopter to recover the remains from the gorge.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
• The clean-up, in which civil defense, firefighters and volunteers are also taking part, has been going on for months.
  — Fox News, 27 Apr. 2023
• Taiwan has put its military on alert and staged civil defense drills, but the overall mood remained calm on Friday.
  — Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2022
• For nearly 20 years, Bailey has been a civil defense trial lawyer in Huntsville.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 2 Sep. 2022
• There is a picture of her standing on her motorcycle during her civil defense training.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 24 Nov. 2025