How to Use anti-tank in a Sentence

anti-tank

adjective
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  • The group has been using anti-tank missiles, which fly low to the ground.
    — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 27 June 2024
  • As an 88 mm anti-tank shell ripped through the air, Emile Mika bent over to pick up his medic kit and a candy bar.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Feb. 2023
  • That was javelin anti-tank weapons and stinger anti-air systems.
    — ABC News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • This is a fraction of the size of other anti-tank weapons like Javelin, but highly effective against a tank’s weak spots.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • On the right side of the turret there’s a launcher for two Spike LR fire-and-forget top-attack anti-tank missiles ranging up to three miles.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Each time, the assault columns ran afoul of Ukrainian mines, artillery, anti-tank missiles and drones.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The audits also showed that thousands of grenades and anti-tank charges were also missing, as well as 550 rockets and two missiles.
    — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
  • Last year, an anti-tank mine exploded and killed three deminers and injured one in the northern province of Preah Vihear.
    — Time, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The slats might help mitigate strikes by drones and handheld anti-tank weapons, but heavier munitions should blast right through.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • During the exchange, Israeli soldiers fired anti-tank missiles at the building, Colonel Hecht said.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Rural roads are natural choke points that can be mined and covered with machines and anti-tank missile teams.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • From there, Hezbollah units have a line of sight into Israel to fire weapons including anti-tank missiles.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Light artillery, anti-tank guns, and mortars could also be transported in and even fired from the open compartment.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The Israeli military said its tanks fired back into Lebanon after an anti-tank missile was launched across the border.
    — Abby Sewell and Kareem Chehayeb The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
  • My vehicle drove over an anti-tank mine, but everything was OK, the vehicle took the hit, and everyone was alive.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • In the audio clip, the conspirators discuss weapons – such as a drone, mines, RPG rockets and anti-tank rockets – which the colonels claimed to have hidden away near the Odesa highway.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 7 May 2024
  • Poppy with his fellow-soldiers of his anti-tank platoon near their positions in the Kharkiv region.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
  • But early Friday, an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon killed a man from Thailand working on a farm in northern Israel.
    — Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Ukrainians fight back with anti-tank weapons, grenade launchers and anti-aircraft missiles.
    — Roberto J. González, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The mines, anti-tank barriers, artillery and attack helicopters have slowed the advance of Ukrainian troops.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
  • In addition, the heads of its anti-tank, air formation and naval formation were eliminated, the IDF said.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Already, Ukraine’s troops have managed to disable even T-90M tanks with anti-tank grenades dropped by overflying commercial drones.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
  • Halo has carried out extensive surveys of anti-tank mines in the region surrounding Mykolaiv — about 60 miles northwest of the city of Kherson and 30 miles from the Dnieper River.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 9 June 2023
  • In neither deployment did the tanks operate against an enemy armed with modern tanks or anti-tank weapons.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The Marders meanwhile would sweep along the flanks of the tank formation, dropping off infantry squads to suppress Russian anti-tank missileers and deflect any attempts by the Russians to get around and behind the Challenger 2s.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • While conducting a raid in Gaza, one Israeli soldier was killed and three others injured by an anti-tank missile, the Israeli military said.
    — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • An anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon into northern Israel killed an Israeli man, the emergency services said.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Peppered by artillery, popped by mines, pulverized by anti-tank missiles, the BMPs explode like firecrackers and burn like kindling.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • There's another restaurant named after Bayraktar, a type of Turkish drone, and cafe Javelin, named after an American anti-tank weapon.
    — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 2 June 2023
  • Two were killed, and another seven wounded, before Derekh fired an anti-tank missile, blowing up the vehicle.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023

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