How to Use missile in a Sentence

missile

1 of 2 adjective

• Missile experts say the North’s shift to solids came as a surprise.
  — David E. Sanger and William J. Broad, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• Which might then prompt the United States to deploy yet more anti-missile missiles.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• The test was the first multi-missile launch from a Russian ballistic missile submarine in two years.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Dec. 2020
• The United States operates a testing site for missiles and anti-missile defense there.
  — Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online, 12 Dec. 2021
• True, Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system destroyed most of the incoming rockets over our cities.
  — Yossi Klein Halevi, Star Tribune, 25 May 2021
• Even the most penetrating rhetoric is not an anti-missile defense system.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2022
• The Ukrainian leader continued to urge the West to provide his country with heavier and faster equipment, such as warplanes and more anti-missile systems.
  — Nelson Oliveira, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2022
• That includes giving the Ukrainians the ability to protect their own skies with anti-missile batteries.
  — Michael Bociurkiw, CNN, 13 Apr. 2022
• The less warning a target country has of an incoming nuclear strike, the less likely its anti-missile defenses are to work.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• Later, Polish officials said the blast was likely caused by a Ukrainian anti-missile system.
  — NBC News, 16 Nov. 2022
• Each may be able to carry enough nuclear warheads to overwhelm anti-missile defence systems.
  — The Economist, 19 Nov. 2020
• Missile experts haven't identified the four intermediate-range missiles that landed on Monday off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, about 620 miles from its...
  — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2017
• The battle over that tiny, treeless island also was a dramatic demonstration of the effectiveness—or ineffectiveness—of the Tor in its anti-missile role.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 15 July 2022
• The exact equipment set is a secret, but the helicopters are believed to incorporate anti-missile defenses to prevent their downing by surface-to-air missiles.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2021
• Iron Dome capability, after the short range anti-missile defense system was depleted by Hamas rocket fire during the latest Gaza conflict, in May.
  — Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2021
• Zircon,, described as the world’s fastest non-ballistic missile, can be armed with either a conventional or a nuclear warhead, and is said to be impossible to stop with current anti-missile defense systems.
  — Yuras Karmanau, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2022
• While many rockets are brought down by Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system, Israelis are also alerted to incoming munitions by sirens and app notifications.
  — NBC News, 15 May 2021
• Each time, Israeli leaders assured the public that their army, equipped with infallible military intelligence, and defended by high-tech anti-missile defense and a multibillion-dollar state of the art border wall, would keep them safe.
  — Zev Chafets, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
• The anti-missile systems, however, are designed to track and hit missiles coming in at a higher altitude, and low-flying drones provide a more challenging target, particularly when launched in higher numbers.
  — NBC News, 12 Mar. 2021
• As Hamas has fired hundreds of rockets into Israel, most of them intercepted by anti-missile defenses, Israel’s military has pounded hundreds of sites in Gaza, where some 2 million people live squeezed into a tight urban fabric.
  — Fares Akram, USA TODAY, 19 May 2021
• Kishida said Japan urgently needs to build more warships, strengthen anti-missile capability and improve working conditions for troops.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, ajc, 6 Nov. 2022
• Russia developed the system from an anti-missile system originally meant to protect Moscow from nuclear attack.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2020
• The Constellation ships are multi-mission ships that are capable of anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare (anti-ship and land attack), and anti-air warfare (anti-aircraft, anti-missile, and now anti-drone) missions.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Jan. 2021
• But beyond individual missiles, the U.S. may be considering anti-missile batteries like the Patriot system.
  — Conor Finnegan, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2022
• Moscow is reportedly helping Beijing develop an anti-missile air defense system, says Dr. Korolev.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2022
• Upgrades have included a larger, 120-millimeter gun, digital communications system, and now the Trophy active protection anti-missile system.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2020
• Missile experts say the North’s shift to solids came as a surprise.
  — David E. Sanger and William J. Broad, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• Which might then prompt the United States to deploy yet more anti-missile missiles.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• The test was the first multi-missile launch from a Russian ballistic missile submarine in two years.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Dec. 2020
• The United States operates a testing site for missiles and anti-missile defense there.
  — Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online, 12 Dec. 2021

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missile

2 of 2 noun

• The vehicle struck by the Russian missile has four large wheels and sits high off the ground.
  — Michael Biesecker, Fortune, 9 June 2023
• The missiles landed in the water without hitting the ship.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2024
• There were no reports of drones or missiles launched from Iraq.
  — USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
• The oil markets have largely shrugged off the drone and missile attacks so far.
  — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• The four days without missile strikes created a chance for some to harvest olives or search for medicine.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2023
• When the gunmen refused, the Israeli military launched missiles and grenades at the building to try to force them out.
  — Isabel Debre The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2023
• Salon owners go to work despite the constant threat of missile strikes.
  — Longreads, 1 Mar. 2024
• But with the skies filled once again with missiles and bombs, the deluge of casualties had resumed.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• New England’s dirt has rocks; Allen puts it through giant sieves so the spinning truck tires don’t launch stone missiles into the crowd.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• Maersk said that the ship was targeted by a missile, and the crew and vessel were reported safe.
  — NBC News, 16 Dec. 2023
• Russia still has a vast advantage in long-range missiles and drones.
  — Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• That night, a Russian missile struck an apartment building in the city, killing ten civilians and wounding dozens more.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• Residents in Seoul watched a North Korea missile launch this spring.
  — Robert McMillan, WSJ, 11 June 2023
• After his second-quarter touchdown, Kelce threw the football into the stands like a missile, blew a kiss and flashed a hand heart.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2024
• There are regular training flights since the park is surrounded by an air force base and a missile range.
  — Geoffrey Morrison, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Danilov said that Zelensky wrote the first decree helping to create the missile program in March 2020.
  — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Both missiles landed in the water about 10 nautical miles from the vessels, and no one was injured, the news release says.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
• But the missiles also resulted in the deaths of 12 other people, some of whom succumbed to heart attacks.
  — Boaz Dvir, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2023
• Over the weekend, two container ships were struck by Houthi missiles, setting them ablaze.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 18 Dec. 2023
• Fears of missile attacks are a reality of life for people living in that area of Israel — hence the safe rooms in most homes.
  — Claudia Levens, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• Residents are forced to leave their homes to fill up water tanks, the 33-year-old told CNN by phone, which puts them at risk of being struck by Israeli missiles.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 14 Oct. 2023
• The missiles will allow the Ukrainian military to strike at Russian supply lines and command posts well beyond the front lines.
  — David Martin, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2023
• The Rafael Peralta is a fearsome presence: five hundred and nine feet long, armed with some ninety-six missiles.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
• Most of them do not have anti-ship missiles; photos show they have been replaced with water cannons.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2023
• Thousands of families were displaced from southern Israel and along the northern border by fighting and missiles in the first two weeks of the war.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2024
• They were flanked by tanks, missiles and other weapons in a show of military preparedness and readiness.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2023
• Macron also announced plans for a new coalition to acquire and deliver medium- and long-range missiles.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2024
• The missile, experts believe, was launched at about 2 p.m. from Druzhkivka, which is about 10 miles northwest of Kostiantynivka.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2023
• Russia, which has hit civilian targets with missiles and drones routinely since starting the war last year, stepped up airstrikes against Kyiv.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 2 June 2023
• The widespread response comes despite Israel saying 99% of Iran's missiles and drones were intercepted.
  — Peter Kenyon, NPR, 15 Apr. 2024

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