How to Use ballistic missile in a Sentence

ballistic missile

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• North Korea has conducted more than a dozen missile tests this year, including several ballistic missile launches.
  — Barbara Starr, Zachary Cohen and Jeremy Herb, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
• But the strikes in Lebanon and the ballistic missile attack on Israel drove home the fundamental fact that had been overlooked for almost a year: the crux of the matter is Iran.
  — Ari Shavit, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2024
• The last time North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan was in 2017.
  — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
• The third missile was a short-range ballistic missile (SRBM).
  — Fox News, 5 June 2022
• The Defense Ministry said the market was hit by a ballistic missile.
  — Samya Kullab, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
• North Korea in October launched a ballistic missile that flew over Japan – the first in five years.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2023
• Of course, Cadillac didn’t just shove a ballistic missile into the Escalade’s engine bay and call it a day.
  — Bradley Iger, Robb Report, 17 Nov. 2022
• North Korea’s ballistic missile launches Thursday were the sixth round of weapons tests launched in less than two weeks.
  — Fox News, 7 Oct. 2022
• The lighter and smaller Ford felt more toy-like, where the Ram behaved like a ballistic missile, per Connor Hoffman.
  — Carlos Lago, Car and Driver, 30 June 2022
• And on Thursday, the Houthis fired an anti-ship ballistic missile into the Gulf of Aden, which was seen by a commercial ship but did not hit the ship.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
• Here are some of the top headlines: North Korea earlier today fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2022
• Iran has over 3,000 ballistic missiles in its stockpiles, the largest arsenal in the Middle East.
  — Paul Iddon, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan and into the sea Tuesday.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2022
• Unlike ballistic missiles, drones can fly low and slow.
  — Daha Litinova and Emma Burrows, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2023
• On Feb 27, the ministry reported that an oil depot in the city Vasylkiv was hit by a ballistic missile.
  — Anna Conkling, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2022
• North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile on Saturday -- the second test that week alone, and the 14th missile test so far this year.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 10 May 2022
• For more than a decade, Iran depended on its ballistic missiles to deter U.S. and Israeli airstrikes.
  — Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2024
• This was the first ballistic missile launch by North Korea in two months, local news reported.
  — Zenith Wong, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
• October 4 - North Korea fires a ballistic missile without warning over Japan for the first time in five years.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
• The two ships will protect Japan from ballistic missile attacks from China and North Korea.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Sep. 2022
• Past bases have included ballistic missile bases and drone bases.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2023
• Hours later, at least one ballistic missile was launched from Yemen in the direction of the Mason and the Central Park, defense officials said.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
• The proliferation of ballistic missiles used by groups such as the Houthis is thanks, in no small part, to a partnership between Iran and North Korea.
  — Andrew Metrick, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2024
• Since the operation started, the Houthis have stepped up their use of anti-ship ballistic missiles, Cooper said.
  — Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
• State media photographs showed Kim and his guests at a display of some of the North’s ballistic missiles in multi-axle transporter launchers.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 27 July 2023
• Built and developed by AMG, this now-nine-year-old twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8 transforms any car into a ballistic missile.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 6 Feb. 2023
• In 2007, Beijing launched a ballistic missile at one of its defunct weather satellites.
  — Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2022
• North Korea has conducted 23 ballistic missile tests since the beginning of the year.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 28 May 2022
• Russia is running low on conventional weapons such as artillery shells and short-range ballistic missiles as its war in Ukraine drags on.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
• Perhaps the most striking were the two Iranian ballistic missile attacks against Israel in April and October.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024