sneak attack

Example Sentences

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“It was a sneak attack in the dark of night,” Orangetown Supervisor Teresa Kenny said at a news conference Wednesday.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2023

So an anticipated return morphed into a sneak attack.

From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2020

But first, he had to reckon with popular perceptions of the prepper type: rural, deeply conservative and paranoid to an extreme, readying their bunkers for a nuclear sneak attack or the Book of Revelation.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2020

The U.S. had been stung by the sneak attack in Hawaii and were underdogs in the Pacific.

From Washington Times • Nov. 6, 2019

My potential for arrogance made a sneak attack on me.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam