How to Use ballistic missile in a Sentence

ballistic missile

noun

• Indeed, there hasn't been a long-range ballistic missile launch since 2017.
  — Aaron David Miller, CNN, 23 Dec. 2021
• The flight path suggests North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile.
  — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022
• The use of an intermediate range ballistic missile with conventional warheads was a world first.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
• Hwasong-8 is a short-range ballistic missile fitted with a maneuverable reentry vehicle.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2022
• North Korea last conducted a weapons test on Oct.19, when the nuclear-armed country fired a short-range ballistic missile from a submarine.
  — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2022
• Since then, Russian forces have used Belarusian territory to launch ballistic missiles into Ukraine.
  — David Brennan, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
• The Russian military, in response, fired a new, intermediate-range ballistic missile at Ukraine.
  — Tara Suter, The Hill, 28 Nov. 2024
• The last time North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan was in 2017.
  — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
• The third missile was a short-range ballistic missile (SRBM).
  — Fox News, 5 June 2022
• The Defense Ministry said the market was hit by a ballistic missile.
  — Samya Kullab, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
• North Korea in October launched a ballistic missile that flew over Japan – the first in five years.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2023
• Of course, Cadillac didn’t just shove a ballistic missile into the Escalade’s engine bay and call it a day.
  — Bradley Iger, Robb Report, 17 Nov. 2022
• North Korea’s ballistic missile launches Thursday were the sixth round of weapons tests launched in less than two weeks.
  — Fox News, 7 Oct. 2022
• The lighter and smaller Ford felt more toy-like, where the Ram behaved like a ballistic missile, per Connor Hoffman.
  — Carlos Lago, Car and Driver, 30 June 2022
• And on Thursday, the Houthis fired an anti-ship ballistic missile into the Gulf of Aden, which was seen by a commercial ship but did not hit the ship.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
• Here are some of the top headlines: North Korea earlier today fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2022
• Iran has over 3,000 ballistic missiles in its stockpiles, the largest arsenal in the Middle East.
  — Paul Iddon, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan and into the sea Tuesday.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2022
• Unlike ballistic missiles, drones can fly low and slow.
  — Daha Litinova and Emma Burrows, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2023
• On Feb 27, the ministry reported that an oil depot in the city Vasylkiv was hit by a ballistic missile.
  — Anna Conkling, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2022
• North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile on Saturday -- the second test that week alone, and the 14th missile test so far this year.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 10 May 2022
• Japan's coast guard said in a statement on Sunday that North Korea appeared to have fired a ballistic missile.
  — Cynthia Kim, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2022
• But the strikes in Lebanon and the ballistic missile attack on Israel drove home the fundamental fact that had been overlooked for almost a year: the crux of the matter is Iran.
  — Ari Shavit, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2024
• On my second day, North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan.
  — David Qu, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• The official said a pair of ballistic missile tests on Feb. 26 and March 4 were actually meant to try out parts of the new system ahead of its full launch, the Post reports.
  — The Week, 10 Mar. 2022
• For more than a decade, Iran depended on its ballistic missiles to deter U.S. and Israeli airstrikes.
  — Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2024
• This was the first ballistic missile launch by North Korea in two months, local news reported.
  — Zenith Wong, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
• October 4 - North Korea fires a ballistic missile without warning over Japan for the first time in five years.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
• The two ships will protect Japan from ballistic missile attacks from China and North Korea.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Sep. 2022
• Past bases have included ballistic missile bases and drone bases.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024