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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

Mr. Pandya doesn’t strafe every single dish with chiles, but he doesn’t hold back, either.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2021

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

An egg-shaped Fendi coat is composed of thousands of tiny brightly colored mink mosaic tiles, like a pointillist painting; another, strafed by overlapping shades made of layers of scrunched-up tulle that only look like fur.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2023

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

“When I swung in over the stage to land,” he told me, he nearly strafed the tuxedo-clad musicians and sent them scurrying.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2022

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

Gen. McGee arrived in Italy in 1944 as a member of the 332nd Fighter Group and flew more than 130 patrol, escort and strafing missions, piloting P-39 Airacobras, P-47 Thunderbolts and P-51 Mustangs.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2022

To this day, Japanese commemorate the strafing of an elementary school in eastern Tokyo during the Doolittle raid, where a 13-year-old boy was killed.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2020

Rain began its blitz, tranging bullets off the roof and strafing the puddles round the barn.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell