How to Use projectile in a Sentence

projectile

noun

• The cannon fires a ten-pound projectile.
• Someone threw a projectile at her car.
• The bird seemingly wasn’t fazed by the wound or the projectile that caused it.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
• He was also shot in the ribs with a hard-foam projectile.
  — Kevin Rectorstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
• The officer who launched the projectile is with the Cactus Park precinct and has been on the force for one year.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 27 May 2023
• In the center of the shot, there will be four large projectiles that each deal 15 damage.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• The projectile collides with the object, causing a flare of fire and smoke.
  — Molly Stellino, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 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
• 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 video shows a projectile streaking through the darkened skies over Gaza and exploding in the air.
  — Christoph Koettl, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• Surgery on her left arm removed a fragment from the projectile.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2022
• In the Little Boy, a bullet-like projectile made of uranium-235 was fired at a core of the same substance to set off the chain reaction.
  — Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2023
• Place ping-pong balls or other small objects in the cups, then stomp or quickly press down on the free end of the yardstick to launch the projectiles across the room.
  — Rachelle Doorley, Parents, 16 Aug. 2023
• The projectile was believed to have landed in the Pacific Ocean.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2022
• Ukraine's air defense systems shot down 21 of the projectiles.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
• With only one month to turn his run-down Opel Manta into a projectile, the race against the clock begins.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
• One woman showed him a shopping bag brimming with the projectiles.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
• And boy, these deadly projectile points would have been useful.
  — WIRED, 10 Jan. 2023
• Setting my shutter speed at 1/500th of a second revealed just the right amount of motion blur to spot the projectile coming out of the barrel against the trees in the background.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2022
• The city’s head of legal medicine told CNN en Español that autopsies of the 17 dead civilians found wounds caused by firearm projectiles.
  — Tara John, CNN, 16 Feb. 2023
• Remember that items around the seat, like mirrors or toys, can become projectiles in a crash.
  — Jessica Booth, Parents, 11 July 2023
• The investigating officer found nine projectile strikes at the front of the apartment and nine shell casings in the street.
  — Daniel McFadin, arkansasonline.com, 5 Dec. 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
• It could have also been inflicted with a long-range projectile like a throwing spear or dart.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
• Alan Castellanos’ shooting was at least the eighth in the last two years in which groups of officers fired guns and weapons meant to avoid killing, such as projectile launchers or Tasers, at the same time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
• There are scenes with worms and maggots and projectile diarrhea.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Oct. 2022
• Otero was compelled to investigate the source of the mystery projectile.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
• Still, the sheer number of rockets has at times overwhelmed the Iron Dome, a state-of-the art system equipped with a radar to detect incoming projectiles and shoot them down.
  — Isabelle Chapman, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
• On December 17th, a projectile hit the children’s ward of Nasser.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
• Officers found a group of people one of whom had an air gun, which uses springs or compressed air to fire projectiles.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024