Sentence examples for was strafed from inspiring English sources
verb
To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft.
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.
And on the eve of the Senate's debate the police station at Borgo was strafed with machine-gun fire.
In at least one case, the shots were real: in 2003 the Violator office was strafed with bullets.
They survived the journey, although the boat was strafed by Nazi fighter planes, and at last arrived in Falmouth.
One child used crayons to draw a tank that was strafing a crowd of fleeing civilians, a corpse on the road squiggled in red.
Early in November, while Captain Foss was strafing Japanese ships 150 miles north of Guadalcanal, machine-gun fire from a Japanese plane pierced his engine and shattered his canopy, narrowly missing the aviator's head.
They were strafed and nearly sunk by a Japanese plane.
Refugees walking along the track were strafed by American planes.
Tribal villages were strafed and napalmed from the air, then machine-gunned from the ground.
