How to Use ballistic missile in a Sentence

ballistic missile

noun

• 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
• Israel is still the target of rockets from Gaza and ballistic missiles from as far away as Yemen.
  — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Ukraine has been doubling down on efforts to make its own weapons, from millions of drones per year to cruise and ballistic missiles.
  — Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
• In March, Kim ordered his country’s first short-range ballistic missile tests in a year.
  — Fox News, 27 May 2021
• Indeed, there hasn't been a long-range ballistic missile launch since 2017.
  — Aaron David Miller, CNN, 23 Dec. 2021
• The moves come as punishment for the country’s recent test launch of a ballistic missile.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 21 June 2021
• 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
• The flight path suggests North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile.
  — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 5 Jan. 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
• Obama planned to build a new class of submarines to replace Ohio-class ballistic missile subs.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• Such projectiles can fly at more than five times the speed of sound – slower than a ballistic missile, but are harder to track and stop.
  — Teny Sahakian, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2021
• 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
• The Kidd is one of the most capable warships in the world, with the ability to defend against ballistic missile attacks.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2021
• 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
• Japan's coast guard said in a statement on Sunday that North Korea appeared to have fired a ballistic missile.
  — Cynthia Kim, Fox News, 30 Jan. 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 Ukrainian Air Force said that four ballistic missiles and 39 attack drones had been launched in the assault and that two of the ballistic missiles had been shot down in the Kyiv region.
  — Cassandra Vinograd, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
• On my second day, North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan.
  — David Qu, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• The official said a pair of ballistic missile tests on Feb. 26 and March 4 were actually meant to try out parts of the new system ahead of its full launch, the Post reports.
  — The Week, 10 Mar. 2022
• The Houthis in Yemen have also stepped up their targeting of Israel with ballistic missiles.
  — Paul Iddon, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
• Those talks, however, ended without an agreement on how to roll back North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs or when the United States should ease sanctions imposed on the country.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2025