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How to use raider in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Raider means one who engages in a raid; a plunderer. Example: “It was attacked by an evening raider while pulling a passenger train in a south-east coast area.”

Examples of raider by meaning

nounA warplane on an air raid.

  • It was attacked by an evening raider while pulling a passenger train in a south-east coast area.1943 March and April, “Notes and News: Southern Locomotive Destroys Raider”, in Railway Magazine, page 119

More sentences with raider

  • There are therefore several different career paths that may be followed by a ram raider.2021, Laurence Alison, David Canter, The Social Psychology of Crime: Groups, Teams and Networks. From the entry ram raider
  • However, ram raiders sharing similar roles will be likely to have similar criminal careers.2021, Laurence Alison, David Canter, The Social Psychology of Crime: Groups, Teams and Networks. From the entry ram raider
  • Bandits, raiders, and pirates have plagued civilized peoples around the globe for millennia.2013 Winter, Robert J. Bunker, "Defeating Violent Nonstate Actors," Strategic Studies Institute—U.S. Army War College (retrieved 24 May…. From the entry nonstate actor
  • Aware of Syllaeus's involvement, Herod demanded that he deny the raiders refuge in Nabataea.2013, Norman Gelb, Herod the Great, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, page 121. From the entry Nabataea
  • The raider story was canned by the censor on instructions from the naval authorities.1997, Frederick T. Smith, Backroom Briefings: John Curtin's War. From the entry canned
  • These raiders all earn over two hundred thousand pounds a year in big banks.1997 February 26, Chris Morris, “Crime”, in Brass Eye. From the entry great unhosed
  • Dahomeyan raiders kidnapped the men first, then returned to her village the next moon for the women and children.2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 3. From the entry Dahomeyan
  • Manuel Comnenus moves to Sebastea because of Türkmen raiders.2013, David Nicolle, “The Campaign”, in Manzikert 1071: The Breaking of Byzantium, Osprey Publishing, page 36. From the entry Türkmen
  • For a while, there was a concern that nobody could beat Riven, that Last Wish was simply too overtuned for day-one raiders.2018 September 19, Ryan Gilliam, “Only 12 players beat Destiny's new raid in the first 24 hours — and that's awesome”, in Polygon…. From the entry overtuned
  • MacLeod from Dunvegan, his tacksmen big with vengeance, caught up with the raiders by Ardmore Bay, and none of the MacDonalds was spared.2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, published 2009, page 13. From the entry tacksman
  • Here—only 20 miles across the South China Sea from the enslaved mainland—the Nationalist raiders prepare for their frequent forays into Red territory.1964 January, Sam Duke, “Free China's Savage Commando War Against Peiping”, in Man's Illustrated, volume 8, number 8, →OCLC, page 22…. From the entry Tungyin
  • And I am thinking now that ye all know these solid, good things better than Raymie could pick out a raider in an empty room, drunk or sober."2006, Patrick Cave, Sharp North. From the entry daymeal
  • They lose time when their small control ship is damaged, and the raider battleship runs afoul of an American naval vessel that is testing a new supertorpedo.1990, Everett Franklin Bleiler, Science-Fiction, the Early Years, Kent State University Press, page 506. From the entry supertorpedo
  • It was the combination of the impact and the uprush of steam that so disturbed the equilibrium of the raider as to cause it to crash.1943 May and June, “Notes and News: Effective Locomotive "Ack-Ack" Fire”, in Railway Magazine, page 180. From the entry knock off
  • Whether Howard has a Loraxian streak or just developed a taste for restoration in a long career of mining, his ethic is a rare one among raiders then or now.2019, Josh Garrett-Davis, What Is a Western?: Region, Genre, Imagination, page 128. From the entry Loraxian

Meaning of raider

  1. noun One who engages in a raid; a plunderer.
  2. noun A person who takes or attempts to take control of a firm against the will of current management by purchasing a controlling interest of stock and acquiring proxies.
  3. noun A special forces operative; a commando.

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Questions about raider in a sentence

How do you use raider in a sentence?
Raider is used as a noun. For example: “It was attacked by an evening raider while pulling a passenger train in a south-east coast area.”
What is a short sentence with raider?
“Manuel Comnenus moves to Sebastea because of Türkmen raiders.”
What does raider mean?
Raider means one who engages in a raid; a plunderer.

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