Example sentences for: missiles

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

  • 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.

  • A Mr. Donald N. S. Unger, in criticizing a recent William Safire pitch for anti-missile missiles, refers to how the Aegis missile system shot down an Iranian Airbus during the Gulf war, mistaking it for a Mig fighter plane.

  • "The brethren in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait want to bombard Iraq with missiles, deprive it of half of its only seaport and finance its dissident groups, but get angry when Iraqi officials cannot contain their outrage and let fly with a few statements condemning those who collude in aggression against their country," al-Quds al-Arabi added.

  • After the August 1998 missile strikes in Afghanistan, naval vessels remained on station in or near the region, prepared to fire cruise missiles.

  • The Post reports that experts at a uranium plant in Kentucky believe that while dismantling nuclear missiles, radioactive gold, lead, aluminum, and nickel were melted into ingots and sold to the private sector.


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