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strafe

[streyf, strahf] / streɪf, strɑf /




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The first, on Aug. 12, 2026, will start above Greenland, then strafe the west coast of Iceland and move along the Atlantic Ocean and over Spain.

From New York Times Apr. 9, 2024

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

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

To-morrow, if the Major strafes me for my handling of the platoon on the barrack-square, I'll challenge him to detail 'presenting arms, by numbers.'

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 21, 1919 by Various

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

Birdsong strafed and morsed from the oak on the village green.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

He would often try to drive me away, come strafing and threatening, and an alarming thing about that is their flight is completely silent.

From Salon Oct. 1, 2023

The competition consisted of aerial gunnery at 12,000 feet and 20,000 feet, skip bombing, rocket firing, panel strafing and dive bombing, according to the Air Force.

From Washington Post May 29, 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

Alvarez sped over the pier again, strafing the bigger ship from barely a hundred feet above the water.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin




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