How to Use civil defense in a Sentence

civil defense

noun
Definition of civil defensenext
  • She's in training to be part of the local civil defense.
  • This is often voiced by the doctors and civil defense volunteers.
    — Kiran Nazish, Slate Magazine, 12 May 2017
  • He and neighbors tried to dig her out, but weren't able to recover her body until the next morning when civil defense workers brought a backhoe that could lift what had trapped her.
    — Christopher Sherman, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2017
  • State media showed images Friday of soldiers and Cuban civil defense brigades moving residents into shelters.
    — Philly.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The past four days have also seen artillery fire, the civil defense added.
    — Eyad Kourdi, CNN, 25 June 2023
  • His eldest son, who’d also been out with a civil defense unit, died in the blast.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2020
  • The shelters were only a part of the civil defense network.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The fire was put out by 16 civil defense brigades, according to the statement.
    — Qassim Abdul-Zahra, ajc, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The agency’s name would change over the years, but civil defense adapted to the evolving threats of the 20th century.
    — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Talk of old-style civil defense sirens to warn of fast-moving wildfires.
    — Mark Thiessen, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2023
  • For children who grew up during the Cold War era, civil defense training was part of going to school.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Is there, like, a ready-to-go army or civil defense that’s in all the different tissues looking for any kind of trouble?
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
  • As Lebanese and foreign civil defense teams comb through Beirut’s rubble, no one here knows the true number of missing.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Of course, in 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor earlier in the month, civil defense was on the minds of many in the community.
    — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 25 Dec. 2020
  • For nearly 20 years, Bailey has been a civil defense trial lawyer in Huntsville.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Taiwan has put its military on alert and staged civil defense drills, while the U.S. has numerous naval assets in the area.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Two days after the explosion, a French rescue team and Lebanese civil defense volunteers had searched the same building, which had a bar on the ground floor.
    — Bloomberg.com, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Some of the deaths were caused by landslides in the greater Recife area, in Pernambuco state, according to the local civil defense.
    — Cnn's Marcelo Medeiros, CNN, 29 May 2022
  • The civil defense office in the western state of Jalisco said Wednesday the first American suffered bites to his legs, arm, abdomen and chest.
    — CBS News, 21 July 2022
  • Imad Ibrahim, a civil defense rescuer from west Mosul, survived the battle to retake the city and is now tasked with excavating the dead.
    — chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • At a civil defense training, civilians of all ages learn how to load guns, use Kalashnikov rifles and throw grenades, as well as pick up some basic first aid skills.
    — Anja Rubik, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Iran has armed 51 cities and towns with a civil defense system aimed to respond to any foreign attack as tensions with the U.S. have mounted in recent weeks.
    — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Gantz echoed the threats and implored the public to follow civil defense measures, such as gathering in shelters.
    — Zev Chafets, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
  • Brazil’s civil defense agency said some of the affected areas saw more than 23 inches of rainfall in 24 hours.
    — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Taiwan has put its military on alert and staged civil defense drills, while the U.S. has deployed numerous naval assets in the area.
    — Arkansas Online, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Firefighters and civil defense teams worked with a helicopter to recover the remains from the gorge.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
  • The state's civil defense reported that nearly half of its 497 cities have been affected.
    — Fox News, 3 May 2024
  • Taiwan has put its military on alert and staged civil defense drills, but the overall mood remained calm on Friday.
    — Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Israeli airstrikes on four neighborhoods in Gaza City killed at least 38 people Saturday, the Gaza civil defense force said, adding that rescue crews were continuing to search for more dead and wounded in the rubble.
    — Lior Soroka, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
  • Hoegh identified fallout shelters as a crucial civil defense tool, given the deteriorating relations between the Soviet Union and the US.
    — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 31 May 2024

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