Sentence examples for be strafed from inspiring English sources
verb
To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft.
If only a plunging dollar could be bayoneted and ballooning interest rates could be strafed out of existence; to have a mortal enemy to kill is always preferable to having a wound, stabbed into the back and out of reach, that bleeds the strength out of one's optimism.
They were strafed and nearly sunk by a Japanese plane.
Refugees walking along the track were strafed by American planes.
Roland was captured and died on a German prison ship that was strafed by the R.A.F.
The convoy was strafed by a helicopter, although no casualties were reported.
"I was strafed with tear gas and mace," he told me.
Tribal villages were strafed and napalmed from the air, then machine-gunned from the ground.
And on the eve of the Senate's debate the police station at Borgo was strafed with machine-gun fire.
One afternoon we were strafed by a squadron of Allied fighter planes that mistook our column for Wehrmacht troops.
One corner of the pasture is strafed a darker green than the rest, like the turned corner of a hanky.
Fire lines were dug, backfires were set, and the forests were strafed with chemical retardant, and still the woods burned.
