strafes
- present tense form of strafe (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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As a fierce windstorm strafes the gorge and we scatter to batten down our tents, I catch a glimpse of a lion, a Nordic queen and Pippi Longstocking calmly cooking us dinner.
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2022
The Israeli grandmaster plays the positional side of a Benko Gambit to perfection, building up great pressure on the a- and b-files while the great Benko bishop strafes the White position from g7.
From Washington Times • May 12, 2015
Mr. O’Malley is a tone obsessive: he gets a warm, rounded, tube-technology sound in his noise and drone, and for an hour he carefully interacted with Mr. Rehberg’s shifting and corroding electronic strafes.
From New York Times • May 3, 2013
They must point out that “a brutal wind strafes the crowd.”
From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2012
And though I strafes 'em good and 'ard I doesn't 'ate the Boche, I guess they're mostly decent, just the same as most of us.
From Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
