How to Use strafe in a Sentence

strafe

verb

• The planes strafed the town.
• Then strut out down the center of a city street as spotlights strafe the sky.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• Men claw their way on to troop ships; those ships are strafed or torpedoed or sunk.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 18 July 2017
• The birds will move around the trunk drilling holes that make the trunk look like it’s been strafed by a machine gun.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 27 Apr. 2018
• The bullets strafed the living room, missing the woman who was in the back of the home.
  — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 6 Apr. 2020
• The gun is designed for very close range air-to-air fighting or strafing targets on the ground.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2019
• But before the squad’s plane reaches their drop point, it’s strafed with enemy fire.
  — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 9 Nov. 2018
• Japanese planes bombed the ship transporting her and strafed the lifeboats.
  — Michael Washburn, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
• Bere and Diaz could not sleep as the howling winds and driving rain strafed her friend's home.
  — Josh Katzenstein, NOLA.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• So the Japanese thought this would be a lot of fun to come down there and strafe them in the water.
  — Nancy Stearns Theiss, The Courier-Journal, 23 Aug. 2017
• So some growers hire helicopters to strafe their crops, using their blades to push higher, warmer air down to the plants.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2017
• Tanks rolled over vehicles, crushing civilians to death, and helicopters strafed major cities from the air.
  — Selcan Hacaoglu, Bloomberg.com, 9 Oct. 2017
• Parents race to save a boy, who will figure prominently later in the series, as airplanes strafe the streets with gunfire.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 19 June 2020
• Barrage balloons were already aloft to prevent any German aircraft from strafing the ships.
  — The Oregonian, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2023
• The raptors will sometimes strafe ducks on the water, then focus on any that didn't fly off, and that duck usually becomes the eagle's next meal.
  — Val Cunningham Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021
• Cousins strafed Brown and the Eagles, passing for 209 yards and three touchdowns, and that was just in the first half.
  — Bob Sansevere, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2019
• But during its offshore path up the edge of the state, Matthew strafed the Florida coast with a large, damaging wind field.
  — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Sep. 2019
• Bennett was determined to aid the endangered unit and elected to strafe the hostile positions.
  — Drew Broach | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 10 Nov. 2020
• Spastic seabirds, the puffins, murres and a variety of seagulls challenged the boat, sometimes strafing in disdain when no morsels were cast their way.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2018
• Coalition aircraft strafed the mountain a day before our arrival, firing 12 rockets.
  — Jonathan Spyer, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2018
• Then there are the vehicles, an assortment of speeding, shrieking, stomping death machines that strafe, blast, and claw their way through enemy lines.
  — Owen Duffy, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2018
• The movie suggests that the meek will not only inherit the Earth but also will strafe, slice, bomb and hack their way to it, all for the adoration of their wives and once-sullen kids.
  — Mark Kennedy, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2021
• Fox likely is out, as likely as the spasm of fear that strafed any Bears fan or observer who came across that report before the Bears faced the Browns.
  — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• 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, 6 June 2019
• Russian mercenaries were among the hundreds who died as the Americans strafed, bombed and shelled the assault force, Army Brig.
  — NBC News, 15 Apr. 2018
• People, mostly children, are literally starving, and these are the ones not being strafed by weapons purchased from the United States.
  — Alex Siquig, GQ, 12 Dec. 2017
• Officials urged residents not to let their guard down as the storm gained strength before landfall and stood to barrage the coast with life-threatening storm surge and strafe the region with dangerous winds.
  — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• Nor have her sentences lost their capacity to circle and strafe their subjects, to fly above them, to feign disinterest for a clause or a paragraph before landing on them with comic force.
  — Paul McAdory, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
• In one of the war’s most grisly incidents, warplanes strafed a retreating Iraqi column north of Kuwait City, melting man and machine.
  — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2019
• South Vietnamese forces clashed with Buddhist protesters in central Vietnam, and at one point demonstrators were strafed by fighter-bombers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019