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air raid
noun as in aerial bombardment
Example Sentences
Just last week, Ukrainian protesters interrupted a speech by Yulia Navalnaya in Lisbon, playing the sound of air raid sirens and demanding that she condemn the war, which she did.
These are air raid sirens, screams and howls.
The Ukrainian Premier League match went ahead as planned, but was interrupted in the 51st minute, external after an air raid alert, with the remainder of the game postponed to a later date.
Even before the air raid siren sounded, our phones blared with a new Israeli alert system, deployed for the first time, directing us to take shelter until further notice.
“As soon as we heard the air raid, we came out of the building running, children were screaming, sometimes you feel your heart is going to stop,” one man said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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