strafe
verb (used with object)
to attack (ground troops or installations) by airplanes with machine-gun fire.
was strafing
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past progressiveof strafe.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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On Dec. 14, 1944, he was strafing an enemy airfield on the Philippine island of Luzon when antiaircraft fire struck his plane.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2015
This Zepp was strafing bombs about for all she was worth, and—who was it?—Macartney,
From Sea Warfare by Rudyard Kipling
Whereupon he took it into his head that I was strafing him, and muttered sulkily: "Well, sir, I must say I never did like Abroad."
From Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front by Keith Henderson
Bosche was now fairly quiet; he was "strafing" the ridge in front with an occasional H.E.; some of our batteries on my right were still at it.
From How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. by Geoffrey H. Malins
