How to Use intercontinental in a Sentence

intercontinental

adjective

• 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
• The cemeteries’ location along the Silk Road bolsters the idea that intercontinental trade played a role in the dissemination of the plague during the Black Death.
  — Jen Pinkowski, Scientific American, 15 June 2022
• At least one of North Korea's tests this year was believed to be of an intercontinental ballistic missile that could hit the US mainland.
  — Samantha Beech, CNN, 26 May 2022
• The third-place finishers in each group advance to a 10-team intercontinental playoff.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 4 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• In April, Kim presided over the launch of a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-18.
  — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
• There is doubt that the North has yet built a reliable intercontinental ballistic missile that could target the United States.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
• The launches cap off a year in which the hermit state test-fired a record number of intercontinental ballistic missiles, including some that could also reach the United States.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 18 Dec. 2022
• The missile launches, which took place on Feb. 26 and March 4, could foreshadow a North Korean test of the missile at its full intercontinental range, an official said.
  — Gordon Lubold and Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• The top four teams from South America qualify directly for the tournament, which will be held in Qatar this winter, while the fifth-place team heads to an intercontinental playoff.
  — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• The latest launch came less than a month after North Korea resumed testing its intercontinental ballistic missiles for the first time since 2017.
  — Fox News, 16 Apr. 2022
• The launches came two days after the North claimed to have performed a key test needed to build a more mobile, powerful intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the US mainland.
  — Hyung-Jin Kim, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
• The launches came two days after the North claimed to have performed a key test needed to build a more mobile, powerful intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the U.S. mainland.
  — Time, 18 Dec. 2022
• The launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile came as no surprise (it was first tested in 2017), but its significance at the present moment was obvious.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
• That’s smaller than the nukes arming Russia’s intercontinental missiles but still 20 to 40 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.
  — Louis Mazzante, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2023
• What if, in the end, we are done in not by intercontinental ballistic missiles or climate change, not by microscopic pathogens or a mountain-size meteor, but by … text?
  — Matthew Kirschenbaum, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2023
• The fares include food; drinks including wines and spirits; many excursions; gratuities; round-trip flights in business class on intercontinental air travel from the U.S. and Canada; and more.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
• So, the plume of an intercontinental ballistic missile is pretty large.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
• The test was one of the most successful among the several intercontinental ballistic missile tests his country has conducted this year.
  — John Yoon, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2022
• Another test from the hermit state reportedly saw the use of an intercontinental ballistic missile that had the potential to reach the U.S. mainland.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 26 Nov. 2022
• It is believed to have built its first intercontinental ballistic missiles with black-market rockets from Ukraine.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• His work paved the way for both space exploration as well as the development of the intercontinental ballistic missile, capable of lofting nuclear weapons across the globe.
  — Nathan Hodge, CNN, 14 Sep. 2023
• The activity includes a full-range intercontinental ballistic-missile launch in March that showed again that Pyongyang possesses a weapon that can reach the U.S. mainland.
  — Timothy W. Martin, WSJ, 4 May 2022
• The weapon, which was first tested last year, is North Korea’s largest intercontinental ballistic missile, with the potential to reach the continental United States.
  — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• Silos that can house intercontinental ballistic missiles are located in Montana — and jet fighters were scrambled to be in a position to shoot the balloon down.
  — CBS News, 3 Feb. 2023
• The airline continues to push for intercontinental growth, but said the temporary nature of the Amsterdam slots mean that service to the Netherlands is not yet a realistic option.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
• That intercontinental background is felt on Fountain Baby, an eclectic album that mixes its modern African pop sound with moments of rap nostalgia and punk-rock squall.
  — David Renshaw, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2023
• The images of Kim and his daughter, published Saturday, showed them on the site of what Pyongyang announced as a successful launch of its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile to date.
  — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022
• North Korea has been testing various missiles at the same time, including the test of an intercontinental ballistic missile last week and the tests of smaller range missiles like the cruise missiles tested on Wednesday.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024