Example sentences for: scud

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

  • Citing a report in London's Sunday Times , inside stories at the WP and NYT report that British officials say they've caught Libya trying to smuggle Scud missile parts through London's Gatwick Airport.

  • One of the stories he includes is how Israel's Yediot newspaper recently went to Moscow and bought Russian spy satellite photographs of new Scud missile bases in Syria, and then hired a private U.S. expert on satellite photos to analyze the pictures.

  • In its lead article, the conservative Jerusalem Post said that Israeli defense officials saw a U.S. strike on Iraq as "inevitable," but they also regarded the chances of an Iraqi Scud attack on Israel as "next to zero."

  • More traumatic to the hard-bitten Israelis was the launching of Scud missiles at Tel Aviv and Haifa during the Gulf War of 1990–91.

  • In this case, the first clue was provided by Paul Beaver of Jane's Defense Weekly reporting on the massive proliferation of a class of cheap, post-Scud, surface-to-surface missiles with limited range that are ideal for wars between adjacent countries such as India and Pakistan, North and South Korea, and most of the Middle East.


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