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Sentence Examples These included short-sheeting a fellow guardsman's bed, shooting mailboxes and road signs for fun, and raiding the base commissary for Pop Tarts. They say they are already considering raiding the savings of cash rich schools to plug the gap. Retreating subunits will inevitably be engaged by the enemy's enveloping, raiding, air-mobile, or commando forces. But after eight years of more or less permanent warfare, tit-for-tat raiding and headhunting, he grasped a rare opportunity for freedom. In times of war and the threat of raiding parties, men are detailed to act as lookouts from the tower. If I should feel hungry between meals I eat a piece of fruit rather than raiding the cake tin or the biscuit barrel. For many of the armed bands roaming the region, raiding and looting have become a way of life. Police today retraced the steps of a vicious gang who assaulted two guards before raiding a security van for thousands of pounds of cash. The guards were raiding and he took off like an Olympic sprinter, only to come to a sudden halt. He examines the issue of merchant ships being used as Royal Navy auxiliaries for commerce raiding and patrol duties. Steve is raiding the Jack Daniels and Mike is in the chiller cabinet getting the mixers for the Brandy. She was a three-month-old baby elephant, too small to keep up when her group had been caught raiding a paddy field and driven into the forest. The people in the Sulu islands have a long and enthusiastic history of tribal wars, raiding, slaving and piracy. Tiny microchips are making people on a huge estate feel more secure by putting burglars off raiding their homes. We must also guard against them raiding and exploiting our rich genetic pool. Strip away the jargon, and you are talking about ambushing terrorist groups, raiding weapons shipments in transit, and rescuing hostages. He brought disassembled ships with him, recaptured the port of Aila, built his ships and set them to raiding. Donations had ranged from children raiding their piggy banks to large cheques for hundreds of pounds. Thugs escaped with thousands of pounds after raiding the Harpurhey Post Office and supermarket on Rochdale Road with a meat cleaver. The slave-maker, or dulotic, ant species are typically specialized for raiding nests of host species for their brood. Show More Sentences As Clark and his party explored the Yellowstone, a Crow raiding party stole the horses belonging to a detail led by Sgt. Pryor. Frank led a raiding party of eight men who eventually succeeded in cornering the goat after a two-hour operation. Security footage of young burglars raiding a Cotswold church is being examined by police. Apart from these early offensive operations, Japanese paratroops were mostly used as raiding forces. So who were the Vikings raiding around the Welsh coast, the Welsh or themselves? Can they use these managers to replace intrapreneurs who have departed, or will the CEOs have to continue raiding for scarce talent? One evening while raiding a grocery store cash register with some friends for nickels and dimes, he is arrested and taken to a juvenile prison. Bodin distinguished between war and other forms of organized violence such as raiding and brigandage. Yes, I mean, Martha was not a white-collar criminal raiding a corporate community chest, cooking the books. They had police dogs raiding the crowd of people and I saw a dog signal out a guy who obviously had some drugs on him. A more crude approach is bin raiding, where thieves steal rubbish to search for sensitive documents such as bank statements or utility bills. Yesterday a Black Watch raiding party carried out a smash and grab raid into the city, destroying five T55 tanks. Despicable thieves have been raiding Salisbury's charity shops, taking cash and causing thousands of pounds' worth of damage. When the search party returned they found Brush in the kitchen raiding the fridge. If they are not physically attacking them, they are raiding fields for food. Organised criminal gangs using JCBs are raiding Scotland's wild plants, making tens of thousands of pounds a time. It certainly shouldn't suggest raiding the frozen food bins at the supermarket, where one is served as much artifice as aliment. Perhaps we have stumbled upon a party intent on ambushing us and raiding our lands. The only conflict that we're finding between Ugandans and chimps and gorillas is crop raiding. A moment later, small explosions appeared in the sky as anti-aircraft guns opened up on the raiding force. Show More Sentences Why do film-makers persist in raiding the unfinished work of the greats? Last year he experimented with honeybees, placing hives around fields in the hopes that the stinging insects would deter elephants from raiding crops. They may conduct reconnaissance by visual observation, by probing, by making ambushes, and by raiding tactical command posts, dumps, and other targets. The bear retreated, but became a fixture around the neighborhood, raiding garbage cans, taking dips in back-yard pools. During their search, someone collapsed on the ground near them, shot by a bullet from the raiding forces. The town council has in turn appealed to the seamanship of the Wootton Bassett Sea Cadets who have agreed to launch one of their boats to row the raiding party across. After raiding the town, the soldiers helped themselves to any loot that they could find. Nonetheless, the base itself had a number of American weapons that wound up in the hands of the raiding militias. There were serious revolts during the course of the seventeenth-century, and raiding by the nomadic hunter-gatherers from the eastern parts of the region. He is prosecuting attorney, and he suborns him, an unsuspicious and innocent fellow most of the time, into raiding Albert's garbage can for evidence. In 1969, an anthropologist working in Santa Fe de la Laguna decried the uncontrolled woodcutting and timber raiding that was finishing off the forests there. I had never craved a carrot before, or fantasized about raiding an apple tree in a nearby garden. On that wonderful apocalyptic note, I shall leave you all to begin building your supervolcano shelters and raiding your local supermarket for tinned foods and preservatives. Some consider cattle the oldest form of wealth, and cattle raiding consequently one of the earliest forms of theft. Through such raiding, the Zambo gained a more dominant position and the king's domain was inhabited primarily by Zambos. On the high seas, the Americans could only pursue a strategy of commerce raiding, taking British merchantmen with their frigates and privateers. My mother had lost a considerable number of spring chicks to a raiding sharpie. Welfare queens can't hold a candle to corporate kings in raiding the public purse. As ever, Willie Mullins will be central to the success of the raiding party at a meeting where he has saddled 33 winners. Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal told Pajhwok Afghan News the raiding party razed the labs, killed two people and seized a quantity of heroin. Show More Sentences Meanwhile in a raid, the raiding party of the district government apprehended five butchers for overcharging and violation of laws. The Irish have not provided a Triumph Hurdle winner since 2002, but Oliver Brady's Ebadiyan heads the raiding party in this year's renewal. After raiding his home, officers found rolling papers and the remains of a smoked joint containing traces of hashish. A GENEROUS schoolgirl has inspired others to donate to charity after raiding her money box for a local cause. While those dans le tent were attempting quick breads and sculptures made out of Chelsea buns I was raiding the cupboard for ingredients. The Nut Job Cert 12 SURLY, a naughty squirrel living in a city park, discovers a nut store ripe for raiding. Already during the Gallic Wars of Caesar, tribes of Germanic people were raiding over the Rhine, and many were eventually settled there. From here, they were raiding not only foreign lands but were also attacking Norway itself. Thus a typical Germanic force might consist of 100 men with the sole goal of raiding a nearby Germanic or foreign village. Viking raiding expeditions were separate from, though coexisted with, regular trading expeditions. Various barbarian tribes went from raiding and pillaging the island to invading and settling. They were soon mentioned as raiding and settling in many North Sea areas, as well as pushing south inland towards the Franks. In 1059 he visited Edward, but in 1061 he started raiding Northumbria with the aim of adding it to his territory. Norsemen first began raiding in what became Normandy in the late 8th century. Harold's sons were meanwhile raiding the southwest of England from a base in Ireland. Louis VII answered by raiding the Norman Vexin, forcing Henry II to move his troops north, giving Louis the opportunity to free Bourges. They agreed to stop off at Roanoke on the way back after raiding the Spanish in the Caribbean. Drake stayed in the area for almost a year, raiding Spanish shipping and attempting to capture a treasure shipment. The British raiding force captured the Spanish boat and towed her back to Theseus. The resulting skill in foul weather seamanship and coastal raiding certainly contributed to the Navy's success against Napoleon Bonaparte. Show More Sentences Lack of organised naval opposition throughout Western Europe allowed Viking ships to travel freely, raiding or trading as opportunity permitted. This took much of the economic incentive out of raiding, though sporadic slaving activity continued into the 11th century. In the 9th century, Vikings began raiding and founding settlements along Ireland's coasts and waterways, which became its first large towns. The rebels did so well in their raiding that the Danish kings decided to take over the campaign themselves. The early Picts are associated with piracy and raiding along the coasts of Roman Britain. Constantly raiding the Adriatic Sea, the Illyrians caused many conflicts with the Roman Republic. The Continental Congress authorized the creation of a small Continental Navy in October 1775, which was primarily used for commerce raiding. Instead, German naval strategy relied on commerce raiding using capital ships, armed merchant cruisers, submarines and aircraft. The sultanate's raiding and weakening of the regional kingdoms of South India paved the way for the indigenous Vijayanagara Empire. Deprived of men, the Prussians had to resort to this new sort of warfare, raiding, to delay the advance of their enemies. After the Uqair conference, Kuwait was still subjected to a Saudi economic blockade and intermittent Saudi raiding. From their new base in West Flanders and the Southwest Netherlands, they were raiding the English Channel. Wallace used the Ettrick Forest as a base for raiding, and attacked Wishart's palace at Ancrum. By 1404, they were raiding the coast of England, with Welsh troops on board, setting fire to Dartmouth and devastating the coast of Devon. Edward was forced to retreat south of the border, pursued by Scottish raiding parties. The division spent its time rebuilding and consolidating washed out trenches and raiding German positions. In addition to raiding, the division helped train the newly arrived 1st Portuguese Division, assigning a battalion at a time for tutoring. There was much trench mortaring, mining and raiding by both sides and from January to May, the Second Army had 20,000 casualties. There are stories of marauding sheep raiding dustbins in Blaenau Ffestiniog and of others rolling across cattle grids to access better pastures. Towards the end of the 9th century, the Norsemen or Vikings began raiding the area. Show More Sentences It was in the 8th century that Scandinavians began to build ships of war and send them on raiding expeditions which started the Viking Age. While the initial raiding groups were small, it is believed that a great amount of planning was involved. Here, the ships are described as elegant and ornately decorated, and used by those who went raiding and plundering. Allied fire support was grossly inadequate and the raiding force was largely trapped on the beach by obstacles and German fire. During the first half of the 17th century, Barbary raiding was at its peak. Vikings traded with the Gaelic, Pictish, Brythonic and Saxon kingdoms in between raiding them for slaves. Additionally, there were slaves from the Caucasus obtained by a mixture of raiding and trading. He was also frequently absent at the court of King Edward in the south, and possibly showed a lack of leadership against the raiding Scots. It is likely that their raiding was endemic over the years, as the few surviving accounts probably do not reflect all occurrences. In 854 a raiding party overwintered a second time, at the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames estuary. Some raiding, however, was necessary to gain initial control of the towns and regions that they developed into centers of economic activities. The Portuguese landed in Mossel Bay in 1500, explored Table Bay two years later, and by 1510 had started raiding inland. At this time the Spanish were also raiding villages to capture Indians for slaves. The treaty was renewed no less than nine times, but did not restrain some Xiongnu tuqi from raiding Han borders. Seminoles based in East Florida began raiding Georgia settlements, and offering havens for runaway slaves. The Aztec army failed to take any territory and was mostly restricted to raiding. From the second part of the 16th century, Cossacks started raiding Ottoman territories. The Polish forced the Cossacks to burn their boats and stop raiding by sea, but they did not give it up entirely. From around 1150 it pushed south to the upper Sukhona and used this route to trade with the Bulgars and also for some raiding. The Delhi Police is raiding offices of the GMR Energy while sources indicated more arrests are likely in the coming days. Show More Sentences Esther Velthoen examines Dutch attempts to tame coastal raiding up until 1905, efforts that have some remarkable similarities to Roman attempts to curb Cilician piracy. Narrow channels which funnel shipping into predictable routes have long created opportunities for piracy, as well as for privateering and commerce raiding. Imagine raiding a pencil case belonging to one of the children from The Borrowers and even the dinkiest protractor therein would still be too unwieldy for the job. The ever suave Sean Connery stars as dapper agent 007 who must prevent Auric Goldfinger and his pint-sized henchman Oddjob from raiding the gold reserves at Fort Knox. There were no casualties among the raiding party or civilians, it added. The raiding party also recovered arms and ammunition, including two Kalashnikovs, a rocket launcher, eight hand grenades, six detonators and gunpowder. But, more importantly, it means you can form your very own raiding party with these talented people and land one of those clients that make your competitors jealous. These animals cruise the countryside without worry of being hunted, lapping up winterkilled game, raiding unprotected garbage cans, and grazing in grain fields. Surrey's inland position shielded it from coastal raiding, so that it was not normally troubled except by the largest and most ambitious Scandinavian armies. The Atlantic slave trade peaked in the late 18th century, when the largest number of slaves were captured on raiding expeditions into the interior of West Africa. Arab slave traders differed from European ones in that they would often conduct raiding expeditions themselves, sometimes penetrating deep into the continent. Varangians were more concerned with trading than raiding, and sailed along Russian rivers and opened commercial routes to the Caspian Sea as well as the Black Sea. Columbus has not seen them himself, but says that local Indians claim the monsters have many canoes, and that they sail from island to island, raiding everywhere. The English and Dutch, relative newcomers, found the description of Atlantic and Indian coastlines extremely valuable for their raiding, and later trading, ships. When the Khitans began raiding northeast China in 605, a Chinese general led 20,000 Turks against them, distributing Khitan livestock and women to the Turks as a reward. The Alemanni expanded from the Main basin during the 3rd century, raiding the Roman provinces and settling on the left bank of the Rhine from the 4th century. From the beginning of the 16th century until the end of the 17th century, Crimean Tatar slave raiding bands exported about two million slaves from Russia and Ukraine. In it, the Geatish king Hygelac is killed while raiding Frisia. Sweyn, backed by the new King, Malcolm IV, threw in his lot with Erlend, attacking the shipping of the other two Earls and raiding the east coast of Scotland in his company. In 1140, Holdbodi called on Sweyn to join him raiding the coast of Wales, but they were beaten off, Holdbodi withdrawing to the Isle of Man and Sweyn to Lewis. Show More Sentences She then continued further south, eventually crossing the Equator, where she took the most prizes of her raiding career while cruising off the coast of Brazil. Vikings would plant crops after the winter and go raiding as soon as the ice melted on the sea, then return home with their loot in time to harvest the crops. Edward's illegitimate son, Adam, died during the campaign, and the raiding parties almost captured Isabella, who was staying at Tynemouth and was forced to flee by sea. By 1314, Robert the Bruce had recaptured most of the castles in Scotland once held by Edward, pushing raiding parties into northern England as far as Carlisle. Military adventurers went to Wales from Normandy and elsewhere and after raiding an area of Wales, then fortified it and granted land to some of their supporters. By 1314, Robert I had recaptured most of the castles in Scotland once held by the English, and was sending raiding parties into northern England as far as Carlisle. At the end of the 4th century, the last Roman troops left their camps in Wales, with the result that raiding and settling by the Irish significantly increased there. In the first years of the Republic, when warfare was mostly concentrated on raiding, it is uncertain if the full manpower of the legions was summoned at any one time. Believing Fighter Command strength to be concentrated in the south, raiding forces from Denmark and Norway ran into unexpectedly strong resistance. Perth should suit down to the ground and the 2m 4f novices' hurdle looks ideal even with Gordon Elliot sending over his usual raiding party from Ireland. Examples from Classical Literature It was to be a slap-up affair, right under the roof, where there was no chance of the police raiding us. Hurd somehow knew about the vagabond raiding party that had rescued Glenna from the mental hospital. Scrip was useless to them, and the legals were raiding all cargoes destined for Wayne's section. Otto Harkaman was out in the Corisande, raiding and visiting the trade-planets. First, it was by raiding a tribe who lived under our protection, and then by stealing camels from Berbera itself. Great was the scare in the West, at this first taste the fine fruits of raiding. On raiding her house the police discovered a tricolour flag. Those Malaita canoes are always raiding down that way, and you know what that Port Adams lot is. But Uncle Goering will know different when he gets the raiding reports. He therefore decided to end his raiding and put in at Newport News. Sati Ruck, prosecuting, said Haworth had been breaking the law for 18 years and he had 17 previous convictions for raiding homes in the area. In raiding and plundering be like fire, is immovability like a mountain. They appeared to be raiding parties, for they drove goats and cows along with them and there were native porters laden with grain and other foodstuffs. They'll think you are raiding on your own in proper buccaneer style. Aidan O'Brien has whittled his raiding party down to two with Jacobean emerging as the chief Ballydoyle contender, though O'Brien also saddles Newmarket winner Aloft. Craig Lawrence Stanton, 44, was jailed for three years and nine months at Teesside Crown Court in May last year after he was convicted of raiding a hostel. If I would have shot that skunk walking across my backyard thinking it was the pesky raccoon that has been raiding my garbage cans, Three would have gone ballistic. 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What is the opposite of raiding? Words that rhyme with raiding What is the plural of raiding? What is the adjective for raiding? What is the noun for raiding? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words raiders Raider raider raided RAID raid raids rail railbus railcar railcars railed 7-letter Words Starting With r ra rai raid raidi raidin