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How to use projectile in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun, adjective

Projectile means an object intended to be or having been shot from a weapon. Example: “The total impulse from the impact will depend on the kinetic energy of the projectile.”

Examples of projectile by meaning

adjectiveProjecting or impelling forward.

  • a projectile force; a projectile weapon

More sentences with projectile

  • The total impulse from the impact will depend on the kinetic energy of the projectile.From the entry impulse
  • The catapult made a good launcher for the small projectile.From the entry launcher
  • The impact velocity of the projectile was obtained with a velocimeter installed between the muzzle and the target.From the entry velocimeter
  • This deflagatory reaction created sufficient pressure to propel a projectile out of a tube with enough speed to kill or injure an opposing combatant.From the entry deflagatory
  • Some aviarian species specialize in storming targets by dropping different types of projectiles.2017, Daniel A. Liut, Reality: The Struggle for Sternessence, BQB Publishing, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry aviarian
  • Like all frangible projectiles, these projectiles return to powder when impacting an object.2013, Robert E. Walker, “Ammunition Cartridges”, in Cartridges and Firearm Identification (Advances in Materials Science and Engineering)…. From the entry frangible
  • In this lab you will investigate projectile motion with the help of a toy dart gun.1990, Peter Goodwin, Practical Physics Labs: A Resource Manual, page 64. From the entry dart gun
  • Loose projectiles of not less than 4% inches in diameter are usually shipped egg-crated.1953, United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance, Loading and Bracing of Ammunition, Explosives, and Dangerous Articles in Trucks and…. From the entry egg-crated
  • Snap caps are dummies (no powder, no primer, no projectile) shaped like the ammunition for a particular gun.2012, Silvio Calabi, The Gun Book for Boys. From the entry snap cap
  • Commotio cordis is characterized by a projectile impacting the chest and leading to sudden cardiac death, but without creating material damage.2004, B. Loret, A. Gajo, F.M. Simões, “Chemo-mechanical interactions in geological and biological materials: examples”, in Benjamin Loret…. From the entry dangerosity
  • I know about projectile vomiting because L—one of my brothers, the Harry Potterish one—had it when he was a baby.2004, Nicola Morgan, Chicken Friend, Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry Harry Potterish
  • The projectiles were cleaned and weighed, and the powder blended, resectioned and reweighed by each of the companies who used it.1910, Antiaircraft Journal - Volume 34, page 176. From the entry resection
  • These include a longbow, crossbow, slingshot or shanghai even though it is capable of propelling a projectile by means of an explosive force.2020, Parliament of Singapore, “Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control Bill”, in Republic of Singapore Government Gazette, page 161. From the entry shanghai
  • North Korea early on Saturday fired several short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast from its eastern Kangwon province, South Korea’s military said.2017 August 25, Jack Kim, “UPDATE 3-N.Korea fires multiple short-range projectiles into sea -S.Korea”, in James Dalgleish, Sandra Maler…. From the entry Kangwon
  • The plumbata was an ancient Roman version of the lawn dart—a weighted projectile with a sharp point that was lobbed underhanded toward its target.2013, John O'Bryan, A History of Weapons: Crossbows, Caltrops, Catapults & Lots of Other Things that Can Seriously Mess You Up, Chronicle…. From the entry plumbata
  • With splitting fingernails he scratched up various soils from his long-abandoned bridal bed, plus shirt-pocketsful of hardness-eight gravel to serve as splattergun projectiles.1999, Tom Bradley, Kara-Kun, Flip-Kun, →ISBN, page 267. From the entry splattergun
  • The powdered medium itself does not comprise a solid-mass projectile, per se, but it is tightly packed and contained within the jacket, which acts as the container.2013, Robert E. Walker, “Ammunition Cartridges”, in Cartridges and Firearm Identification (Advances in Materials Science and Engineering)…. From the entry frangible
  • High pressure directly ahead of and beside the projectile nose comminute and fracture the sand media, forming a rigid, conical false nose on the front of the projectile.2011, William L. Cooper, “Communication of Stresses by Chains of Grains in High-Speed Particulate Media Impacts”, in Tom Proulx, editor…. From the entry comminute
  • This means that in order to describe the dangerosity of projectiles we require specific criteria based on the effects they may have on the human body.2011, Robin M. Coupland, Markus A. Rothschild, Michael J. Thali, translated by Steve Rawcliffe, edited by Beat P. Kneubuehl, Wound…. From the entry dangerosity
  • Hundred-ton guns were toys compared with the micro-organic projectiles hurled from the laboratories, the messengers of death, the destroying angels that stalked through the empire of a billion souls.1914, Jack London, “The Unparalleled Invasion”, in The Strength of the Strong, New York: MacMillan. From the entry destroying angel

Meaning of projectile

  1. noun An object intended to be or having been shot from a weapon.
  2. noun Any object propelled or thrown through space by the application of a force, such as strong wind.
  3. adjective Projecting or impelling forward.

Full definition of projectile

Questions about projectile in a sentence

How do you use projectile in a sentence?
Projectile is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “The total impulse from the impact will depend on the kinetic energy of the projectile.”
What is a short sentence with projectile?
“a projectile force; a projectile weapon”
What does projectile mean?
Projectile means an object intended to be or having been shot from a weapon.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: projectile (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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