air-raid
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.16 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of air raid.
Example Sentences
- "Regularly after working during the day he went to the ARP post at night to be on call should there be an air-raid."
- "This street, Alton Avenue, was on a slope... air-raid shelters had been dug into all the back gardens so that you had to stoop and go down a couple of steps to enter...my parents told one particular family if there was an air-raid they could share our shelter."
- "He notes also WWII indications in England that air-raids seemed to have less effect on children than on adults (Vernon 1941, cited in Cairns 1996) and that older children seemed to find the raids thrilling (Crosby 1986, cited in Cairns 1996)."
- "In June 1940 at night-time the air-raid siren went, my father was at the docs so my mother told my elder brother to go down the steps ready for me to be handed to him."
- "Those in charge of factories, offices and apartment blocks were to appoint and train air-raid wardens."
- "The palace was built to disguise a three-story air-raid shelter located beneath it."