How to Use short-range in a Sentence

short-range

adjective
  • Some short-range spotting has been observed.
    Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The former is what the first game had, and is more meant for short-range dashes and dodges.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Graf’s first goal came on a short-range one-timer and his second came on the power play.
    Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
  • DroneLight is meant for short-range air defense.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 23 June 2026
  • And the effort continues now on more their short-term threats, short-range missiles, drones.
    NBC news, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Some days, Hezbollah has fired up to 100 short-range rockets.
    Isabel Kershner Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Each dome caps a thirty-five-foot-deep silo that formerly housed a short-range missile.
    Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
  • South Korea describes the weapon as a short-range missile system.
    Kim Tong-Hyung and Hyung-Jin Kim, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The short-range radars track low-flying aircraft and cruise missiles that can avoid larger radar systems.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026
  • The system is also capable of tackling short-range threats.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 11 Mar. 2026
  • If confirmed, this would mark one of the first time Hezbollah has fired weapons outside of its short-range arsenal.
    Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 22 Sep. 2024
  • This is where short-range nowcasting is beneficial.
    Jim Foerster, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • These move rapidly to sites under threat of drone attack and provide effective short-range defence.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • Its Iron Dome missile defense system is designed to repel more short-range fire.
    Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Last May, the country test-launched a short-range ballistic missile from the same submarine.
    Hyung-Jin Kim, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The mission said that short-range drone strikes in regions close to the front were responsible for most casualties.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • This tri-band middle child adds the 6-GHz band for rapid and stable short-range Wi-Fi.
    Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2025
  • American short-range fighter aircraft can drop bombs and take out enemy planes and surface-to-air missiles.
    Stacie L. Pettyjohn, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The country has been developing a number of short-range ballistic missiles for many years.
    Iain Boyd, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Smaller, short-range drones are used by both sides on the battlefield and in areas close to the roughly 620-mile front line.
    Illia Novikov, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
  • Designed for drone-heavy threats DragonFire targets short-range threats such as drones and mortar rounds.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Apr. 2026
  • More than a year of war has depleted Russia’s stocks of cruise missiles and short-range ballistic missiles.
    Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • But that, in turn, exposed them to Wagner’s short-range missiles and heavy anti-aircraft machine guns.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2023
  • Avalanche beacons, or transceivers, are short-range radio transceivers worn by every member of a ski or backcountry party.
    Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Serbia has also purchased medium- and short-range surface-to-air missile systems from China.
    Chris Massaro, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The Texans scored on six of their first seven possessions, with four short-range field goals and a 30-yard, third-down scoring strike.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Thousands more were mounted on short-range aircraft and missile systems all over Europe, as well as on surface warships.
    Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The Broncos lined up for a short-range field goal, but holder Oscar Boyle, a junior punter, bobbled the snap.
    Idaho Statesman, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Initial shipments of small arms and short-range defensive weapons kept Russian troops from taking the capital.
    Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • Bluetooth is ideal for short-range connections up to 30 feet, so mostly when the two connected devices are in the same room.
    Shreyas Sen, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2026

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