Example sentences for: ballistic

How can you use “ballistic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The WP describes a "stinging" 40-page report, submitted to Congress by a independent panel appointed by the Defense Department, that criticizes the government for over-optimism about its ability to develop interceptors, or "kill vehicles," that would destroy incoming ballistic missiles by colliding with them at supersonic speed.

  • If current plans (beginning with 100 interceptors in Alaska) are implemented, the U.S. must either amend or break its 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia.

  • He added that the reason Israel was so calm in advance of the attack was that it had concluded there were no launchers or ballistic missiles to threaten it in western Iraq, and that even if Saddam decided to launch the few "Hussein" missiles and improved Scuds he still had, he would need more than 24 hours to transfer them from their hiding places to an area within range of Israel.

  • These measures include providing advance warning of ballistic missile tests and the continuation of the nations' respective unilateral moratoriums on nuclear testing.

  • The NYT fronts the discovery that South Korea is trying to develop longer-range ballistic missiles, prompting concern over a possible arms race between North and South Korea.


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