How to Use intercontinental in a Sentence

intercontinental

adjective

• This is in contrast to intercontinental ballistic missiles that follow a predictable arc through the air after they are launched.
  — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 12 July 2024
• The guidance technology for a multi-warhead rocket, presumed to be for an intercontinental ballistic missile, is at its final stage.
  — Timothy W. Martin, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2021
• The full lineup will not be known until at least June 14, when the intercontinental playoff round ends in Qatar.
  — Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• Five years ago, the Americans lost a two-leg intercontinental playoff for the final spot in Rio de Janeiro on a goal late in the second half.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2021
• The other two parts of the triad were the strategic bomber, and the intercontinental ballistic missile.
  — Charles Tiefer, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
• That could suggest that the intercontinental crossing was not an easy path.
  — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2021
• The cemeteries’ location along the Silk Road bolsters the idea that intercontinental trade played a role in the dissemination of the plague during the Black Death.
  — Jen Pinkowski, Scientific American, 15 June 2022
• At least one of North Korea's tests this year was believed to be of an intercontinental ballistic missile that could hit the US mainland.
  — Samantha Beech, CNN, 26 May 2022
• The third-place finishers in each group advance to a 10-team intercontinental playoff.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 4 July 2022
• That program aimed to create an atomic bomb, an intercontinental ballistic missile to carry the bomb and a satellite from which to view the world below.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2022
• Those missiles have intercontinental range and can reach a target anywhere around the world from their positions in Russia.
  — Yuras Karmanau, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2023
• Reports make no mention of Kim delivering a speech at the event or the country’s intercontinental ballistic missiles that were unveiled to the world for the first time last year.
  — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
• As top-notch opposition comes to the United States, the intercontinental competition will function as a dress rehearsal of sorts for the 2026 World Cup on home soil.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
• In April, Kim presided over the launch of a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-18.
  — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
• There is doubt that the North has yet built a reliable intercontinental ballistic missile that could target the United States.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
• At the same time, the first intercontinental telegraph wire was laid in 1858, connecting North America to Europe.
  — TIME, 18 Mar. 2024
• The launches cap off a year in which the hermit state test-fired a record number of intercontinental ballistic missiles, including some that could also reach the United States.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 18 Dec. 2022
• The missile launches, which took place on Feb. 26 and March 4, could foreshadow a North Korean test of the missile at its full intercontinental range, an official said.
  — Gordon Lubold and Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• The top four teams from South America qualify directly for the tournament, which will be held in Qatar this winter, while the fifth-place team heads to an intercontinental playoff.
  — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• The fourth-place finisher will advance to an intercontinental playoff where another World Cup berth will be at stake.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2021
• The latest launch came less than a month after North Korea resumed testing its intercontinental ballistic missiles for the first time since 2017.
  — Fox News, 16 Apr. 2022
• The launches came two days after the North claimed to have performed a key test needed to build a more mobile, powerful intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the US mainland.
  — Hyung-Jin Kim, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
• The launches came two days after the North claimed to have performed a key test needed to build a more mobile, powerful intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the U.S. mainland.
  — Time, 18 Dec. 2022
• On top of that, in April, the U.S. had successfully tested a new kind of intercontinental ballistic missile called the Minuteman.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2021
• The Minuteman systems are intercontinental ballistic missiles meant to protect the United States in the event of an attack and can be deployed at a moment's notice, Davis said.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 14 June 2021
• The launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile came as no surprise (it was first tested in 2017), but its significance at the present moment was obvious.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
• That’s smaller than the nukes arming Russia’s intercontinental missiles but still 20 to 40 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.
  — Louis Mazzante, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2023
• Pyongyang claims the device is a hydrogen bomb that could be mounted on an intercontinental missile.
  — CNN, 12 Sep. 2021
• What if, in the end, we are done in not by intercontinental ballistic missiles or climate change, not by microscopic pathogens or a mountain-size meteor, but by … text?
  — Matthew Kirschenbaum, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2023
• The fares include food; drinks including wines and spirits; many excursions; gratuities; round-trip flights in business class on intercontinental air travel from the U.S. and Canada; and more.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024