RAID in a Sentence

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For RAID, below is one of 32 sentences:
Mr. Lebedev is referring to a raid last year on his father's bank, National Reserve Bank in Moscow, by masked Russian police.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAID
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raid
 n.  search without warning; surprise attack by a small armed force
Classic Sentence:
1  He and Mr. Elsing are under arrest for complicity in a Klan raid at Shantytown tonight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
2  Everyone knew the details of the raid, the killing of Frank Kennedy and crippled Tommy Wellburn and how Ashley was wounded in carrying Frank's body away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
3  The latter then approached the police sergeant who was in charge of the raid.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27
4  While this was going on, the two little boys were playing in the back yard, and saw nothing of the raid.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND
5  Three characteristic things one might have seen in Sherman's raid through Georgia, which threw the new situation in shadowy relief: the Conqueror, the Conquered, and the Negro.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
6  Guerrilla raiding, the ever-present flickering after-flame of war, was spending its forces against the Negroes, and all the Southern land was awakening as from some wild dream to poverty and social revolution.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
7  Anything was better than the constant danger of raids from both armies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  A negro who had boasted of rape had actually been arrested, but before he could be brought to trial the jail had been raided by the Ku Klux Klan and he had been quietly hanged.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
9  'To speak plainly, he raided the country,' I said.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
10  Three wagons had been raided and robbed by stragglers from Davout's corps.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  The colonel led a successful raid against a rebel base.
2  In an air raid last night the enemy aircraft bombed the city.
3  The bank robbers wore masks throughout the raid.
4  The weapon used in the raid was a replica.
5  The rebels attempted a surprise raid on a military camp.
6  It would certainly be within his power to authorize a police raid like that.
7  Five civilians died in the raid.
8  One man was arrested during the raid and another during a follow-up operation.
9  A security guard was killed in the bank raid.
10  She was shot during an armed raid on a security van.
11  The kids tend to raid the fridge when they get home from school.
12  I am afraid that this border raid is the prelude to more serious attacks.
13  Mr. Lebedev is referring to a raid last year on his father's bank, National Reserve Bank in Moscow, by masked Russian police.
14  The nightly incursion and hit-and-run raid of our neighbors across the border tried the patience of the country to the point where we decided to retaliate in force.
15  The bloodless takeover stood in marked contrast to a deadly raid of another Gaza aid ship this week.