Sentence examples for raided from inspiring English sources
The word "raided" is correct and commonly used in written English
It is typically used to describe a sudden and forceful attack or invasion on a place or group of people. Example: The village was raided by a group of bandits last night, leaving many homes destroyed and families without their belongings.
What the police discovered when they raided the three-bedroom flat in spring 2011, however, had more of a Young British Artists vibe: homemade shelves stacked with hundreds of juice cartons and tinned food with a 1980s sell-by date.
On one occasion last year her home was raided by the security services, her husband was taken away and has since vanished and her two babies were beaten.
More than 20 officers raided a four-storey terrace house in a residential street in Woolwich, south-east London, where they discovered 800 cannabis plants.
When police raided homes in June of that year after a surveillance operation they also found a pink shoe in a washing basket at Roberts' home containing 13 bullets.
The police raided just as it was about to start, but then left them alone.
One of the latest shows to be raided and stopped the other day in Belarus was a non-verbal dance interpretation of Chekhov's The Seagull.
Trafficking networks have been dismantled in several towns and some brothels have been raided and closed in the past two months.
Secret service agents have raided both Lyutsina's apartment and that of her daughter to seize the journalist's computer.
The day before, police raided Borisovskyie Novosti, an independent weekly in Barysaw, a town in the Minsk region, confiscating newsroom equipment.
Afip has raided the Argentinian branch of HSBC and seized records and files, but was told many documents relating to the Swiss accounts had been stored at a facility which suffered an arson attack last year.
Madagali became a ghost-town after Boko Haram repeatedly raided it for food.
