Example sentences for: missiles

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

  • The 13 options included B-2 bombers, missiles, AC-130 gunships, the armed UAV, and raids to capture and destroy al Qaeda leaders and targets.

  • Saturday, an hour before U.S. planes and missiles were scheduled to attack Iraq, Saddam Hussein apparently surrendered.

  • Vessels with Tomahawk cruise missiles were on station in the Arabian Sea, and could fire within a few hours of receiving target data.

  • Instead, they have often talked about the fact that there is 'nothing worth hitting in Afghanistan' and said 'the cruise missiles cost more than the jungle gyms and mud huts' at terrorist camps."

  • (That story, by Thomas Ricks and Robert Greenberger, was also the first report of the detail in yesterday's NYT about the U.S. dispatching a general to Pakistan to reassure that U.S. cruise missiles were not an attack by India.)


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