How to Use air force in a Sentence

air force

noun

• The Su-34 was supposed to change the Russian air force—and the Su-34M, even more so.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• Read full article The air force said the pilots, aged 34 and 27, both died in the crash.
  — Michael Varaklas and Derek Gatopoulos, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
• Despite the ban, Japan still maintains land, sea, and air forces.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2023
• The Ukrainian air force said the military downed 20 Shahed drones in the evening.
  — Susie Blann, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• The Ukraine air force said half of the 32 missiles were intercepted.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
• Israel has tanks, an air force, and the most advanced weapons systems in the world, plus the support of the United States.
  — Foreign Affairs, 9 Nov. 2023
• The aging MiG-29 is the Ukrainian air force’s most numerous type.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• And tracked Israeli air force planes streaking to their Hamas targets in Gaza.
  — Greg Palkot, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2023
• Perhaps a Cold War-vintage S-200 that the Ukrainian air force pulled out of long-term storage.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• When the family arrived in Germany for a stopover, Joshua Mast and his wife greeted them at the air force base.
  — Dallas News, 24 Oct. 2022
• The attack combined a swarm of drones and a volley of cruise missiles, the Ukrainian air force said on Facebook.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
• Meanwhile, the Israeli air force has been hitting thousands of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.
  — Assaf Orion, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2023
• The first runs are slow, tentative — the Nigérien air force getting comfortable with the mission.
  — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2022
• All three have served in their respective nations’ air forces.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
• The air force said 31 drones were launched in all, but no details were given about what the three that weren't intercepted may have struck.
  — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2023
• Seventy were shot down on Tuesday, the country’s air force claimed.
  — Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• But the Russian air force had been annihilated on the ground, and the German Stukas were able to dominate the area.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2022
• Two weeks ago, Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 43 cruise missiles at targets across the country.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
• Looks like the Ukrainian air force finally has learned its lesson.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• The General Staff said Russia's air force was playing a key part in the latest assault.
  — TIME, 12 Nov. 2023
• One half of the novel is set at an air force base in England, the other half set in a German town that lies in the path of one of Harris’s bombing runs.
  — Malcolm Gladwell, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• After comments, the secretary of the air force will make the final base decision.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 13 July 2022
• Indeed, right now the battle for Bakhmut might represent the Ukrainian air force’s main line of effort.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• The air force is still testing for PCBs and other potential hazards there.
  — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• They were joined by former air force pilot Zhang Lu, 46, also a space debutant.
  — Fox News, 29 Nov. 2022
• The Ukrainian air force said air defense systems destroyed 23 out of 31 drones launched by Russia overnight.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 10 Feb. 2024
• England’s Carol Wilson, 19 at the time of the World Cup, had enlisted in the air force in part to play in coed leagues with other recruits.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2023
• Days later, two air force pilots were killed when their water-dropping plane crashed while tackling a blaze on the island of Evia.
  — Elena Becatoros, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• Rajapaksa and his wife fled Sri Lanka early Wednesday for the Maldives, slipping away in the night aboard an air force plane.
  — Krutika Pathi and Krishan Francis, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2022
• Since then, Ukraine’s air force command reported that Shahed-136 drones were used to launch attacks on the southern cities of Odesa and Mykolaiv.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024