How to Use anti-tank in a Sentence

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• As an 88 mm anti-tank shell ripped through the air, Emile Mika bent over to pick up his medic kit and a candy bar.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Feb. 2023
• That was javelin anti-tank weapons and stinger anti-air systems.
  — ABC News, 26 Feb. 2023
• This is a fraction of the size of other anti-tank weapons like Javelin, but highly effective against a tank’s weak spots.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• On the right side of the turret there’s a launcher for two Spike LR fire-and-forget top-attack anti-tank missiles ranging up to three miles.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• Each time, the assault columns ran afoul of Ukrainian mines, artillery, anti-tank missiles and drones.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• The audits also showed that thousands of grenades and anti-tank charges were also missing, as well as 550 rockets and two missiles.
  — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
• Last year, an anti-tank mine exploded and killed three deminers and injured one in the northern province of Preah Vihear.
  — Time, 15 Aug. 2023
• The slats might help mitigate strikes by drones and handheld anti-tank weapons, but heavier munitions should blast right through.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• During the exchange, Israeli soldiers fired anti-tank missiles at the building, Colonel Hecht said.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• Rural roads are natural choke points that can be mined and covered with machines and anti-tank missile teams.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
• Light artillery, anti-tank guns, and mortars could also be transported in and even fired from the open compartment.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2023
• The Israeli military said its tanks fired back into Lebanon after an anti-tank missile was launched across the border.
  — Abby Sewell and Kareem Chehayeb The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
• My vehicle drove over an anti-tank mine, but everything was OK, the vehicle took the hit, and everyone was alive.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 1 Aug. 2023
• In the audio clip, the conspirators discuss weapons – such as a drone, mines, RPG rockets and anti-tank rockets – which the colonels claimed to have hidden away near the Odesa highway.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 7 May 2024
• Poppy with his fellow-soldiers of his anti-tank platoon near their positions in the Kharkiv region.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
• Ukrainians fight back with anti-tank weapons, grenade launchers and anti-aircraft missiles.
  — Roberto J. González, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
• The mines, anti-tank barriers, artillery and attack helicopters have slowed the advance of Ukrainian troops.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
• In addition, the heads of its anti-tank, air formation and naval formation were eliminated, the IDF said.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2023
• Already, Ukraine’s troops have managed to disable even T-90M tanks with anti-tank grenades dropped by overflying commercial drones.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
• Halo has carried out extensive surveys of anti-tank mines in the region surrounding Mykolaiv — about 60 miles northwest of the city of Kherson and 30 miles from the Dnieper River.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 9 June 2023
• In neither deployment did the tanks operate against an enemy armed with modern tanks or anti-tank weapons.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
• The Marders meanwhile would sweep along the flanks of the tank formation, dropping off infantry squads to suppress Russian anti-tank missileers and deflect any attempts by the Russians to get around and behind the Challenger 2s.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• While conducting a raid in Gaza, one Israeli soldier was killed and three others injured by an anti-tank missile, the Israeli military said.
  — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• An anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon into northern Israel killed an Israeli man, the emergency services said.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 8 Dec. 2023
• Peppered by artillery, popped by mines, pulverized by anti-tank missiles, the BMPs explode like firecrackers and burn like kindling.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• There's another restaurant named after Bayraktar, a type of Turkish drone, and cafe Javelin, named after an American anti-tank weapon.
  — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 2 June 2023
• Two were killed, and another seven wounded, before Derekh fired an anti-tank missile, blowing up the vehicle.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
• Russia has deployed older anti-tank and anti-personnel mines—of the kind the world has ample experience dealing with.
  — Justin Ling, WIRED, 19 Feb. 2024
• Since the operation started on Oct. 27, Hamas has attacked the Israeli army with explosive-laden drones, anti-tank missiles and high-impact rockets—the sorts of weapons that have transformed the battlefield in Ukraine.
  — WSJ, 5 Nov. 2023
• Ukrainian military officials said the Russian attacks had run afoul of minefields and been pummeled by artillery, kamikaze drones and anti-tank missiles.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024