How to Use intercontinental in a Sentence

intercontinental

adjective

• Plus, the two heads of state are locked in an intercontinental bromance.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
• Blake’s team was shoved into this intercontinental playoff, one last chance to make it.
  — Franklin Leonard, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
• That could suggest that the intercontinental crossing was not an easy path.
  — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2021
• How does the intercontinental play-off work?
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
• The goal came about a day after the return leg of an intercontinental journey to obtain his visa.
  — Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 5 June 2020
• The test marked the first time the GMD was used to stop an intercontinental missile.
  — Leada Gore, AL.com, 22 June 2017
• The new intercontinental champ was here.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 18 Nov. 2025
• In the shortest of the four videos, the suspect focuses on his regrets amid his intercontinental life.
  — Michelle Krupa, CNN Money, 11 Jan. 2026
• That means it is meant to approach the warhead speed of a true intercontinental ballistic missile.
  — David E. Sanger and William J. Broad, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• The Pentagon will attempt to shoot down an intercontinental missile in a first-of-its-kind test planned for today.
  — Leada Gore, AL.com, 30 May 2017
• The airline teased plans for at least 12 new intercontinental routes from Seattle in the future.
  — Edward Russell, Travel + Leisure, 10 Dec. 2024
• The bombers had to move fast to escape being caught on the ground by enemy bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2019
• The other two parts of the triad were the strategic bomber, and the intercontinental ballistic missile.
  — Charles Tiefer, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
• The slippery intercontinental patriotism is intriguing, even in songs that strain to give seven guys the same time of day.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2026
• Those final spots will soon be filled with two squads emerging from the intercontinental playoff and four more from the European playoffs.
  — José Sánchez Córdova, Dallas Morning News, 23 Mar. 2026
• The third-place finishers in each group advance to a 10-team intercontinental playoff.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 4 July 2022
• Those missiles have intercontinental range and can reach a target anywhere around the world from their positions in Russia.
  — Yuras Karmanau, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2023
• The full lineup will not be known until at least June 14, when the intercontinental playoff round ends in Qatar.
  — Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• Venezuela, with 18, is one ahead of Bolivia in the contest for seventh place that grants an intercontinental playoff berth.
  — Mauricio Savarese, Baltimore Sun, 11 June 2025
• The goal came about a day after Locadia completed the return leg of an intercontinental plane trip to retrieve his visa.
  — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 7 July 2020
• The goal came about a day after Locadia completed the return leg of an intercontinental plane trip to retrieve his visa.
  — Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 19 June 2020
• What appear to be intercontinental ballistic missile parts can be seen parked on the tarmac as sections of old rockets sit in lots surrounded by weeds.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
• During its travels, presumably in the midst of a grand intercontinental tour, the ID.
  — New Atlas, 22 May 2025
• That program aimed to create an atomic bomb, an intercontinental ballistic missile to carry the bomb and a satellite from which to view the world below.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2022
• During the Cold War, the substance was used in intercontinental missiles and submarines.
  — Amia Srinivasan, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
• Even most versions of the intercontinental Boeing 747 cannot match that metric.
  — J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2025
• Last September, Pan and Zeilinger used this approach to set up the first intercontinental video chat to be secured in part with a quantum key.
  — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2018
• Five years ago, the Americans lost a two-leg intercontinental playoff for the final spot in Rio de Janeiro on a goal late in the second half.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2021
• The target was an intercontinental-range missile fired from a test range on Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific.
  — Staff and Wire Reports, The Mercury News, 31 May 2017
• Should Trump let Iran build nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles?
  — Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026