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

President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the Japanese sneak attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, a “date which will live in infamy.”

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2019

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

From Washington Times • Nov. 6, 2019

At least if he carried the ball, he’d be in full view of everyone and not as vulnerable to a sneak attack.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier