How to use missile in a sentence

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• The pilot zeroed in on the bunker and launched a guided missile.From the entry zero in
• A TOW missile is an antitank weapon capable of killing everyone in a tank from great distance.From the entry antitank
• A single EXOCET antiship missile can sink a destroyer. Try not to get hit.From the entry antiship
• Long-range missiles can shoot down any planes before they can even be seen.From the entry long-range
• Missiles exhausted, the pilot was forced to close and dogfight with his opponent.From the entry dogfight
• The helicopter was downed by a surface-to-air missile.From the entry down
• When you're in the air force you have to be prepared to launch missiles at people from the air.From the entry air force
• The flares attracted the heat-seeking missiles.From the entry flare
• Without Soviet support surrounding the missile crisis, Cuba's military would have been merely a bonsai army and they would have quickly succumbed to any serious invasion from the west.From the entry bonsai army
• No, it's not over the Russian invasion of Ukraine or North Korean missiles or even Chinese expansionism.2022 November 29, Jonathan Turley, “Elon Musk triggers liberals, sends them into wartime footing over free speech”, in Fox News. From the entry wartime footing
• But I'm not the only guy there who was a steely-eyed missile man.2017 October 26, John Aaron, interviewee; David Marshall, interviewer, Oral History Interview of John Aaron (NASA Interview Project)…. From the entry steely-eyed missile man
• Comes the retort: Putin has put nuclear-capable missiles in the Kaliningrad enclave between Poland and Lithuania.2017 January 3, Patrick J. Buchanan, “How to Avoid a New Cold War”, in The American Conservative. From the entry Cold War II
• The belief in winnability led to a Soviet Union intention to install missiles in Cuba.2012, Allen R. Wells, The Winter Count, page 99. From the entry winnability
• All carried laser carbines, grenades, missile launchers, mines—a whole panoply of death.2008, Neal Asher, Prador Moon. From the entry xenopathology
• Nevertheless, Juliet gave a covert look around the room for handy missiles.2002, Mulaika Hijjas, “Family Ghosts”, in Feminist Studies, volume 28, number 2, page 372. From the entry poltergeistism
• For militarians, he gives the lowdown on cruise missiles and submarines.2001 November 15, “IT TAKES A BRAIN TO EXPLAIN”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch. From the entry militarian
• Just short of their objectives, the missiles pogoed, climbing steeply, then diving into their targets.1997, James H. Cobb, Sea Strike, page 270. From the entry pogo
• The third option would be to mount a missile attack on key targets in Taiwan.1996 March 15, Michael Evans, “China offensive cannot be ruled out, experts say”, in The Times, number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas…. From the entry nanking
• Chinese missiles have sufficient range and they would cause considerable damage.1996 March 15, Michael Evans, “China offensive cannot be ruled out, experts say”, in The Times, number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas…. From the entry nanking
• Missiles may also be used in the drill, the paper said, quoting unnamed military sources.1996 April 1 [1996 March 31], “Taiwan: Defense Minister Announces Live-Fire Drills on Matsu”, in Daily Report: China, numbers 96-063…. From the entry Tungchu
• Following the attack the missiles dig themselves out of the tunnels to the surface and launch themselves.1989, Barbara Goss Levi, Mark Sakitt, The Future of Land Based-Strategic Missiles, page 174. From the entry basing
• Are we then to resume the next round of supertechnological missiles?1984, Joel Kovel, Against the State of Nuclear Terror. From the entry supertechnological
• Reagan and other U.S. officials for endangering British citizens by putting nuclear missiles in Britain.1984 February 4, Maida Tilchen, “Anti-Nuke Support”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 8. From the entry sueing
• Putting something between you and the guidance radar will cause the missile to go ballistic.1983, Michael Skinner, USAFE: A primer of modern air combat in Europe. From the entry go ballistic
• If the Soviet missile were toppled, would it still go off if it hit sidewise or tailwise?1982, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, Research and development, Title II, page 1216. From the entry tailwise
• The Soviets also agreed to extend the sublimit on "heavy" missiles contained in the Interim Agreement.1979, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 35, number 4, page 12. From the entry sublimit
• Radioelectronics made it possible to develop guided missiles for various purposes.1977, S. N. Kozlov, The Officer's Handbook: A Soviet View, Moscow, 1971, page 291. From the entry radioelectronics
• When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men.1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., “The World House”, in Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →OCLC…. From the entry misguided
• From this point on, transtainers will carry the missile stages wherever they go.1959, Western Aerospace, volume 39, page 20. From the entry transtainer
• Unfortunately Watt was thinking of birds at the time, their missile flights, their canorous reloadings.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry canorous
• The dummy rocket is being developed to permit the ground testing of missile controls.1947 February 21, “Instruments Are Released From Rocket By Parachute in a Jump of 68 Miles”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from…. From the entry simulator
• They can also enhance the rotation of wind turbines and are used in the precision targeting systems of missiles.2025 July 18, Timothy McLaughlin, “A Rebel Army Is Building a Rare-Earth Empire on China's Border. The Kachin Independence Organization…. From the entry terbium
• But Western analysts have remained skeptical, calling the missiles, modified versions of existing conventional munitions, “new wine in old bottles.”2023 May 6, Marc Santora, Eric Schmitt, John Ismay, “Ukraine Claims It Shot Down Russia’s Most Sophisticated Missile for First Time”, in…. From the entry new wine in an old bottle
• Zelensky said Ukraine needs more missile capability.[2023 September 22, Helene Cooper, Julian E. Barnes, “Zelensky’s Visit Reveals Strategy Divide Between Ukraine and U.S.”, in The New York…. From the entry ATACMS
• We know that Putin has vastly improved Russia’s armed forces, adding everything from hypersonic missile capabilities to advanced cyberwarfare tools.2022 February 25, Thomas L. Friedman, “We Have Never Been Here Before”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry bring to heel
• The first missile sped by without detonating.2015, Rick Campbell, Empire Rising. From the entry juke
• How many nuclear missiles would have to be launched at the United States to turn it into a complete wasteland?2014, Randall Munroe, anonymous quotee, “Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #7”, in What If?, New York, New York…. From the entry wasteland

Meaning of missile

1. noun Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet.
2. noun A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched.

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Questions about missile in a sentence

How do you use missile in a sentence?

Missile is used as a noun. For example: “The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones.”

What is a short sentence with missile?

“The flares attracted the heat-seeking missiles.”

What does missile mean?

Missile means any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet.