Sentence examples for a raid over from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a raid over" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe the conclusion of a raid or an event, but it lacks clarity and proper context.
Example: "After a raid over the enemy's territory, the troops returned to base."
Alternatives: "a raid concluded" or "a raid finished".

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The attack followed a raid over the weekend by Islamist insurgents on an air force base in the northern Indian state of Punjab.

His early political awareness was shaped by his experience of poverty during the depression, and losing his older brother Leslie, an airman, during a raid over Germany.

Among the legends attached to "Flying Home" is that it depicts an American Flying Fortress bomber, damaged in a raid over Germany, with its crew urging on the aircraft as it strives to reach its base in eastern England.

At its heart is the search for "the memory of a corpse," that of the author's paternal grandfather, James Eric Swift, a Royal Air Force pilot killed in June 1943 when his Lancaster bomber, returning from a raid over Germany, crashed into the sea off the Dutch coast.

This information is followed by the roster of a flight crew based at Molesworth Airfield in England, home of the 303rd Bomb Group — specifically the men who took one Flying Fortress, the Dirty Lily, on a raid over Frankfurt on Jan.

Nine of Wigan's 19-man squad have come through their youth system and St Helens could include eight products of theirs, albeit having staged a raid over Billinge Hill to sign the winger Tommy Makinson from the Wigan St Jude's amateur club.

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A few weeks later, Walker was shot down leading a daylight raid over Rabaul, an attack that Kenney had ordered to be conducted at night.

Jewish leaders here and abroad condemned a police raid over the weekend at a Jewish community center in Caracas.

"What that means is that it has been quite an extraordinary raid, over an extensive period of time, in extraordinary circumstances during an election campaign," he told the Nine Network.

Menand acknowledges that my grandfather flew on a bombing raid over Germany, but does not mention that during that flight, which took place in 1943, he manned a.50-calibre machine gun against German fighter planes.

The first and only other wartime case came in the closing days of World War II, when six Army Air Corps B-24 Liberators on a bombing raid over Germany lost their way and dropped their payloads over Zurich, Switzerland.

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