How to Use ballistic missile in a Sentence

ballistic missile

noun
Definition of ballistic missilenext
  • It's used as a bastion area, as a hide location for Soviet nuclear submarines, their ballistic missile submarines.
    — CBS News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Traders are still monitoring tensions between Israel and Iran after Tehran’s ballistic missile strike this month.
    — Lisa Kailai Han,yun Li, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The last time North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan was in 2017.
    — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The third missile was a short-range ballistic missile (SRBM).
    — Fox News, 5 June 2022
  • The Defense Ministry said the market was hit by a ballistic missile.
    — Samya Kullab, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • North Korea in October launched a ballistic missile that flew over Japan – the first in five years.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Of course, Cadillac didn’t just shove a ballistic missile into the Escalade’s engine bay and call it a day.
    — Bradley Iger, Robb Report, 17 Nov. 2022
  • North Korea’s ballistic missile launches Thursday were the sixth round of weapons tests launched in less than two weeks.
    — Fox News, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The lighter and smaller Ford felt more toy-like, where the Ram behaved like a ballistic missile, per Connor Hoffman.
    — Carlos Lago, Car and Driver, 30 June 2022
  • And on Thursday, the Houthis fired an anti-ship ballistic missile into the Gulf of Aden, which was seen by a commercial ship but did not hit the ship.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Here are some of the top headlines: North Korea earlier today fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Iran has over 3,000 ballistic missiles in its stockpiles, the largest arsenal in the Middle East.
    — Paul Iddon, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
  • North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan and into the sea Tuesday.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Unlike ballistic missiles, drones can fly low and slow.
    — Daha Litinova and Emma Burrows, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2023
  • On Feb 27, the ministry reported that an oil depot in the city Vasylkiv was hit by a ballistic missile.
    — Anna Conkling, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2022
  • North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile on Saturday -- the second test that week alone, and the 14th missile test so far this year.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 10 May 2022
  • But the strikes in Lebanon and the ballistic missile attack on Israel drove home the fundamental fact that had been overlooked for almost a year: the crux of the matter is Iran.
    — Ari Shavit, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2024
  • For more than a decade, Iran depended on its ballistic missiles to deter U.S. and Israeli airstrikes.
    — Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2024
  • This was the first ballistic missile launch by North Korea in two months, local news reported.
    — Zenith Wong, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
  • October 4 - North Korea fires a ballistic missile without warning over Japan for the first time in five years.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The two ships will protect Japan from ballistic missile attacks from China and North Korea.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Past bases have included ballistic missile bases and drone bases.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Hours later, at least one ballistic missile was launched from Yemen in the direction of the Mason and the Central Park, defense officials said.
    — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The proliferation of ballistic missiles used by groups such as the Houthis is thanks, in no small part, to a partnership between Iran and North Korea.
    — Andrew Metrick, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Since the operation started, the Houthis have stepped up their use of anti-ship ballistic missiles, Cooper said.
    — Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
  • State media photographs showed Kim and his guests at a display of some of the North’s ballistic missiles in multi-axle transporter launchers.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 27 July 2023
  • Built and developed by AMG, this now-nine-year-old twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8 transforms any car into a ballistic missile.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 6 Feb. 2023
  • In 2007, Beijing launched a ballistic missile at one of its defunct weather satellites.
    — Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2022
  • North Korea has conducted 23 ballistic missile tests since the beginning of the year.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 28 May 2022
  • Perhaps the most striking were the two Iranian ballistic missile attacks against Israel in April and October.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2024

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