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One researcher has been hiring planes to strafe the sky over the Amazon rain forest to collect the air coming off the trees, and what she is finding is cause for alarm.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2023

The storms dip over the warm subtropics “and create a conveyor belt of of moisture to strafe the West Coast of the U.S,” Maue said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2023

Team Alive’s greatest moment of jeopardy may have come early, as Jon Snow considered using Rhaegal to strafe a line of mounted White Walkers.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2019

Any wisdom revealed by the passage of time and the contextualizing of history can strafe like glass shards, tiny bites from crystal teeth that make a person flinch.

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2018

When he turned back to strafe it would be another matter.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

As a fierce windstorm strafes the gorge and we scatter to batten down our tents, I catch a glimpse of a lion, a Nordic queen and Pippi Longstocking calmly cooking us dinner.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022

A raucous, audacious comedy by Qui Nguyen, directed by May Adrales and featuring an excellent cast, that strafes just about every subject it tackles and every character it presents.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2016

The Israeli grandmaster plays the positional side of a Benko Gambit to perfection, building up great pressure on the a- and b-files while the great Benko bishop strafes the White position from g7.

From Washington Times ● May 12, 2015

They must point out that “a brutal wind strafes the crowd.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2012

There was wire in front, and the troops got back without more casualties than averaged as a result of the ordinary nightly strafes.

From The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 by S. J. Wilson

Aladdin Sane, with his face strafed by a scarlet firebolt edged in blue, blue, electric blue, is quintessential Bowie iconography.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026

In the South, national monuments burned and strafed during the Korean War were rebuilt with precision and fidelity as symbols of national pride.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023

Already this postseason, the Padres had bashed Max Scherzer, knocked out Chris Bassitt and strafed Jacob deGrom and Clayton Kershaw.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022

Paramount Pictures was strafed three years ago for scrapping the flag, fueling speculation that the change was made to appease the Chinese internet company Tencent Holdings, one of the film’s financial partners.

From Washington Times ● May 31, 2022

It even had a caboose, where a man with a big black beard and a guttering lantern in his hand gaped at us in surprise as the train strafed away around the next bend.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

Hemsley and his fellow insurance CEOs also recently faced down testy members of Congress in two House hearings, taking a critical strafing from lawmakers of both parties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

Watching Lyonne’s heroine tap dance away from strafing fire gets old pretty fast, but at least Johnson and his writers realize that.

From Salon ● May 8, 2025

In one of this book’s later interviews, with a Seventh-day Adventist magazine, Gregory advocates a raw food diet and does a strafing run over soul food.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2022

Medvedev came out blazing, strafing the court with forehand blasts and a barrage of aces.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2021

There was going to be air cover—dive- bombers and Hellcats on strafing runs, and B-24s from out of the Ellice Islands, right up to the point of attack.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson