How to Use projectile in a Sentence

projectile

1 of 2 noun

• The cannon fires a ten-pound projectile.
• Someone threw a projectile at her car.
• Musashi is equipped with a sword and projectiles in the form of kunai.
  — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025
• The bird seemingly wasn’t fazed by the wound or the projectile that caused it.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
• Surgery on her left arm removed a fragment from the projectile.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2022
• Ships have also been threatened and struck with drones and projectiles.
  — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 7 Apr. 2026
• And boy, these deadly projectile points would have been useful.
  — WIRED, 10 Jan. 2023
• The open-cockpit projectile was designed for high-speed, open-air joyrides on the street or track.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2023
• The projectile collides with the object, causing a flare of fire and smoke.
  — Molly Stellino, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
• When picking an elk bullet, shy away from light, fast projectiles and pick a heavy version.
  — Joseph Von Benedikt, Field & Stream, 3 Aug. 2023
• The watchdog did not say which country launched the projectile at Bushehr.
  — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 2026
• One woman showed him a shopping bag brimming with the projectiles.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
• In the center of the shot, there will be four large projectiles that each deal 15 damage.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Soon enough, phones blared with news of incoming projectiles from Iran.
  — Matt Bradley, NBC news, 4 Mar. 2026
• More than 2,000 projectiles have been fired at Gulf states.
  — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026
• There are scenes with worms and maggots and projectile diarrhea.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Oct. 2022
• It could have also been inflicted with a long-range projectile like a throwing spear or dart.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
• Some of the devices, like the Fan, absorb projectiles.
  — PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2025
• The Mayuree Naree was hit by a projectile just north of Oman.
  — Max Burman, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
• The ship's crew described a nearby splash from an unknown projectile followed by a loud bang.
  — Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
• Remember that items around the seat, like mirrors or toys, can become projectiles in a crash.
  — Jessica Booth, Parents, 11 July 2023
• On Sunday, a projectile hit a home in the same area of Jebaliya, killing two men.
  — Fares Akram and Tia Goldenberg, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2022
• Ukraine's air defense systems shot down 21 of the projectiles.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
• No one was injured, though the neighbor later pulled the projectile from the wall, police said.
  — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
• An important question is how big the projectile should be in practice.
  — Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• On Wednesday, a Thai cargo ship that dared to cross the strait was struck by a projectile .
  — Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
• Many of these injuries were caused by projectile devices that dispense crowd-control agents.
  — Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 25 Feb. 2026
• Cartman starts laughing so hard that he projectile vomits all over Thiel.
  — Jack Dunn, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
• After parking her car in the garage, the victim tried punching in a code to close the garage door when a projectile grazed her face.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
• Two projectiles entered Brown’s body.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Dec. 2025

projectile

2 of 2 adjective

• Great Glintstone Shard has had its projectile speed and range increased.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• The officer appears to be using a projectile shotgun that fires beanbag rounds.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2021
• In Montano’s case, two officers who fired projectile weapons were found to have violated the department’s rules.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
• Almost all the individuals had evidence of trauma, whether from bone fractures or puncture wounds from projectile weapons.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 May 2021
• The key to any projectile motion problem is that the horizontal and vertical motions are independent, except for the time.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 13 Aug. 2021
• Survivor 49 kicked off Wednesday night with two-hour premiere filled with projectile vomit, blatant puzzle copying, and a new bromance for the ages.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
• Just as the music starts to crest, the music is interrupted by a shock cut of Duncan graphically projectile defecating.
  — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Curfews were established across the region, the National Guard was brought in, and police made thousands of arrests and used projectile weapons to clear the streets.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2021
• The department also was placed under a federal court injunction restricting its use of projectile weapons as part of one of several lawsuits over its handling of the protests.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2021
• Moore said some incidents in which people shot with projectiles at protests were hospitalized were captured in the report, but most protest uses of projectile weapons and batons were not captured.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
• Blank cartridges don’t contain a projectile bullet; instead cartridges are loaded only with gunpowder to create a bang and a fiery flash at the end of the gun’s barrel, all meant to heighten the effect for viewers.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021
• Along with the drone, police used an armored personnel carrier to approach the suspect, and then brandished both a military-style assault rifle and a projectile launcher that fires nonlethal rounds of hardened sponge.
  — Joe Tash, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2022
• In the past two weeks, various law enforcement agencies have used many non-projectile and nonchemical tools, including batons, helicopters, riot shields and even horses, to attempt to control unrest.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2020
• Di Barbadillo, a protester whose own footage of the incident was submitted along with the body-camera video, said the fact that officers used projectile weapons in such a way is exactly why a restraining order is necessary.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2021
• The legislation requires law enforcement officers to be trained on the safe use of kinetic projectiles and chemical agents and other de-escalation techniques before using projectile weapons.
  — Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
• These creatures roamed Mesolithic Doggerland, and experiments by modern archaeologists have shown their bones make excellent projectile weapons.
  — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2020
• Unverified footage that circulated on social media appeared to show moving lights from anti-projectile defenses being fired into the pre-dawn sky over the UAE capital that day.
  — Reuters, CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
• Yes, there is some projectile body fluid, speaking in tongues, and sinister priests with bad intentions, but because of Quinn’s quiet performance as Mary, the indie film is able to surpass the expectations of a typical possession movie.
  — Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 15 June 2021
• Many local police have more stringent requirements, including Washington, DC, where officers are instructed not to use projectile launchers, including pepper balls, within six feet of targets.
  — Bob Ortega, CNN Money, 10 Mar. 2026