Example sentences for: missiles

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

  • The Post gives this order of battle: "F-117 stealth aircraft and A-10 fighter jets at Kuwait's Jabir Air Base, B-1 bombers and F-16 and F-15 fighter jets at Bahrain's Sheik Isa Airfield, F-14 and F-18 fighter jets on two carriers, cruise missiles on a number of other ships and B-52 bombers on the British island of Diego Garcia."

  • U.S. aircraft then fired radar-seeking missiles and laser-guided bombs at the battery, destroying it.

  • PAC-3 is designed to enhance the Patriot radar's ability to detect and identify targets, increase system computer capabilities, improve communications, increase the number of missiles in each launcher, and incorporate a new "hit-to-kill" missile.

  • Such as allegedly procuring missiles from North Korea that somehow never got into U.S. hands, and whose current whereabouts are unknown.

  • Almost every paper has a different angle: the Journal notes that the announcement will frustrate efforts to prevent North Korea from testing its own missiles; the NYT says the announcement was done in tandem with a harsh public critique of the United States for selling military technology to Taiwan; the Post puts the missile test in the ninth paragraph of a larger story on increased sorties over the Taiwan Strait by Chinese and Taiwanese military jets.


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