Examples of missile in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective As Hamas has fired hundreds of rockets into Israel, most of them intercepted by anti-missile defenses, Israel’s military has pounded hundreds of sites in Gaza, where some 2 million people live squeezed into a tight urban fabric. — Fares Akram, USA TODAY, 19 May 2021 Each time, Israeli leaders assured the public that their army, equipped with infallible military intelligence, and defended by high-tech anti-missile defense and a multibillion-dollar state of the art border wall, would keep them safe. — Zev Chafets, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021 True, Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system destroyed most of the incoming rockets over our cities. — Yossi Klein Halevi, Star Tribune, 25 May 2021 Many of the thousands of rockets fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza were also brought down by Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system. — NBC News, 22 May 2021 By Friday morning, more than four thousand rockets had been launched toward Israeli cities, especially Ashkelon, on the coast; many of the rockets got through the Iron Dome anti-missile shield. — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 21 May 2021 As Hamas has fired hundreds of rockets into Israel, most of them intercepted by anti-missile defenses, Israel’s military has pounded hundreds of sites in Gaza, where some 2 million people live squeezed into a tight urban fabric. — Fares Akram, USA TODAY, 19 May 2021 As Hamas has fired hundreds of rockets into Israel, most of them intercepted by anti-missile defenses, Israel’s military has pounded hundreds of sites in Gaza, where some 2 million people live squeezed into a tight urban fabric. — Fares Akram, USA TODAY, 19 May 2021 As Hamas has fired hundreds of rockets into Israel, most of them intercepted by anti-missile defenses, Israel’s military has pounded hundreds of sites in Gaza, where some 2 million people live squeezed into a tight urban fabric. — Fares Akram, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun And this time, Strand's gambit failed as not only did Morgan survive, but neither of them made it to the submarine weapons room in time to stop a missile from being launched that could spell doom for everyone. — Ew Staff, EW.com, 11 June 2021 Max Stassi launched a missile in the third, driving his third home run in the last four days out to left after Ohtani began the inning with a double. — Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021 The international investigation concluded that the plane was destroyed by a Buk missile fired from territory controlled by pro-Russia separatist rebels. — Mike Corder, Star Tribune, 7 June 2021 This is what many people think RPA warfare is like today—pushing a button from 7,000 miles away to fire a missile at a blob on a screen until it’s extinguished, like in Space Invaders. — Wayne Phelps, WSJ, 5 June 2021 In 2020 during an Iranian military training exercise, a missile mistakenly struck a naval vessel near the port of Jask, killing19 sailors and wounding 15. — Fox News, 2 June 2021 Another recent naval accident proved fatal when in 2020 a missile mistakenly struck a vessel near Jask during a military accident, killing 19 soldiers. — Washington Post, 2 June 2021 In 2020, during an Iranian military training exercise, a missile mistakenly struck a naval vessel near Jask, killing 19 sailors and wounding 15. — NBC News, 2 June 2021 During a military training exercise last year, a missile from an Iranian frigate mistakenly struck another ship near the same port, Jask, killing at least 19 sailors and wounding 15. — BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2021

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