Synonym: assault, attack, invade, loot, pillage, plunder, seize. Similar words: afraid, braided, be afraid to, be afraid of, aid, aide, said, AIDS. Meaning: [reɪd] n. 1. a sudden short attack 2. an attempt by speculators to defraud investors. v. 1. search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on 2. enter someone else's territory and take spoils 3. take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock 4. search for something needed or desired.
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181. A subsidiary raid would be carried out on Bagoush airfield to create as much of a diversion as possible.
182. Village halls across the country become display areas for gas masks, air raid shelters and bomb disposal demonstrations.
183. This was as well, for even a single light raid would have reduced the flimsy huts to matchwood.
184. Lampard was not surprised; on his first raid he himself had dozed off while the enemy barbed-wire was being cut.
185. Garage raid: A computer and a portable cassette player worth £180 were stolen from a garage in Northallerton.
186. An armed raid on a hospital was bound to cause an international outcry, particularly if we came out empty-handed.
187. Sixty people are thought to have been killed in the raid on the village just west of the capital.
188. The raid led to the seizure of 25 kilograms of pure heroin.
189. A strict blackout was imposed in Pyongyang, and the populace was crowded into underground shelters as air raid sirens wailed.
190. As alchemist and visionary, Willner is unique among those who raid the past.
191. There were several air raid warnings in late July but little damage.
192. He had been to Khenj, a village ten miles down the valley, to treat the survivors of a bombing raid.
193. Would your children rather clean their rooms than raid the refrigerator for a snack?
194. He would make that clear, or else he would have no part in the raid.
195. Later, they forced the Xiongnu north of the desert although the latter continued to raid farther south.
196. House raid: Detectives are investigating the theft of a video recorder from a house in Millpool Close, Hartlepool.
197. Investigators raid a house looking for missing gold coins and platinum bars.
198. He never discussed the failed raid; and no-one else dared to, either.
199. Mr Virdi was suspended in April 1998 after a raid at his house near Heathrow.
200. The officer, who carried on to arrest a man suspected of an attempted bank raid, was in hospital yesterday.
201. Harvard Securities organised a surprise raid on the premises of Tudorbury's new sharedealing floor shortly after its inception.
202. Hayes, who drew a knife during the raid bid in Lewisham, South London(sentencedict.com), had nine O-levels.
203. In the latest raid, customers and staff were held at gunpoint in the Ballyholme branch of the Northern Bank on Wednesday.
204. Jeanne requested an armed raid on the building to rescue the woman, but the group leader wouldn't hear of it.
205. It looks at some appalling racial attacks, including a skinhead raid last June on a Gypsy camp near Naples.
206. Police have released a photo of a man they believe carried out a raid on a supermarket.
206. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
207. Any raid or rescue operation would endanger the lives of the hostages.
208. They raid research labs and let out the animals, that sort of thing.
209. Every so often, the police would raid a house or bar, but who was arrested?
210. Then the anti-aircraft guns opened up, firing into the air against an imagined air raid.