Sentence examples for armed raid from inspiring English sources

The phrase "armed raid" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a violent or forceful entry into a place, typically with the intent to steal or cause harm, often involving weapons.
Example: "The police responded quickly to the scene of the armed raid at the jewelry store, ensuring the safety of the bystanders."
Alternatives: "armed assault" or "armed invasion".

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At one point, when Boal's agitprop group was preaching the necessity of taking up arms, a peasant in the audience stood up and suggested an armed raid on a local landlord.

On the eve of that country's 1994 genocide, the United Nations' force commander, Canadian Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, fired off a cable to Annan saying that he'd uncovered a plan to exterminate the country's Tutsi and that he intended to mount an armed raid on a weapons cache that would be used to arm the mass murderers.

They're deployed on another armed raid, somebody's domestic drug factory.

Two experts on police firearms reviewed the final armed raid for the Kent inquiry.

Officers were called to the pub after reports of an armed raid just after 8.15am.

We haven't had an armed raid on a poker tournament for about five years now.

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I've heard of no armed raids on their homes.

These could be had by trade, by taxing transient caravans, or by armed raids.

Knifings are no longer unusual and assault rifles have been used in armed raids on street kiosks and jewelry shops.

Flushing them outAmerican forces launched a series of armed raids against pockets of Iraqi resistance in and around Baghdad.

Ian Hopkins, the chief constable of Greater Manchester police, said it was "very clear that this is a network that we are investigating" as armed raids continued across the city.

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