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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

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.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2020

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

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

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

Mr. O’Malley is a tone obsessive: he gets a warm, rounded, tube-technology sound in his noise and drone, and for an hour he carefully interacted with Mr. Rehberg’s shifting and corroding electronic strafes.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2013

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

From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2012

Every night little strafes were planned which must have kept Fritz in a constant state of speculation as to what might happen next.

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

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

Four home runs, including two by Adrián González, delayed elimination in Game 5, but the Cardinals strafed Clayton Kershaw for seven runs in four innings in a Game 6 rout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2021

Ivanito called to her from the bus window with eyes that strafed her with grief.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

With mortar fire, he also provided vital cover for an American pilot who had crash-landed his plane on the airfield after strafing the enemy and who was eventually pulled to safety by other soldiers.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2020

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