How to Use cruise missile in a Sentence

cruise missile

noun

• The bombers offer the option of launching long-range cruise missiles far from Iran's air defenses.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 20 June 2019
• Raytheon, which makes Tomahawk cruise missiles and other advanced...
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 June 2019
• Russia isn’t alone in developing new cruise missiles and hypersonic weapons.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2019
• France, on the other hand, has been building submarines and equipping some of its Rafale fighter bombers with medium-range nuclear cruise missiles.
  — Taylor Dinerman, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
• Raytheon makes the Patriot missile-defense system and the Tomahawk cruise missile.
  — Alex Johnson, NBC News, 10 June 2019
• Houthi rebels also claimed responsibility for a cruise missile attack last week that wounded 26 people on the same airport.
  — Washington Post, 19 June 2019
• Many existing air defense missiles, designed to shoot aircraft and cruise missiles, are likely unable to intercept hypersonic weapons.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 June 2019
• So, does the Air Force need its new stealth cruise missile?
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2021
• Note the drone and cruise missile kill markings on the turret.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023
• The Houthis unveiled the new cruise missiles this past July and claimed to have new longer-range drones as well.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2019
• That’s nearly as much as a cruise missile with a range of hundreds of miles.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• An hour before that, at least one cruise missile was seen flying north of the city.
  — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2022
• The Air Force released a new video of a B-1 bomber carrying a cruise missile on the outside.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Nov. 2020
• Of those, Ukraine downed 18 cruise missiles and 25 drones, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
  — Aurora Almendral, NBC News, 24 Mar. 2024
• The missile was once banned under the INF treaty and looks like a tomahawk cruise missile.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Aug. 2019
• The ministry said seven cruise missiles were shot down, and all sea drones were destroyed.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• Gremlins could also be used as a low-cost cruise missile.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Jan. 2020
• More than five thousand troops in Iraq were basically in lockdown by the time the cruise missiles hit the two bases.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2020
• Britain also led the way in being the first Western country to supply long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine.
  — Garret Martin, The Conversation, 6 June 2023
• The Houthis fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward a U.S. Navy destroyer over the weekend, but the ship shot it down.
  — Tara Copp, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
• Two weeks ago, Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 43 cruise missiles at targets across the country.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
• In the post, Inbar said there was a huge sail with room for several ballistic and cruise missiles.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2023
• Yet a cruise missile attack on his compound in Afghanistan missed him by an hour, and two other planned attacks were called off at the last minute.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2022
• Just hours after the strike Russia sent two warships armed with cruise missiles to the eastern Mediterranean.
  — The Economist, 28 Feb. 2020
• Specifically, Europe can and should give far more middle- and long-range cruise missiles to Kyiv.
  — Norbert Röttgen, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023
• The cruise missiles and supersonics leap forward as the swarms line up behind.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 7 Aug. 2024
• The Ukrainian air force said Russia fired 39 cruise missiles Wednesday.
  — John Hudson, Robyn Dixon and David L. Stern, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
• In the maneuvers, a missile boat fired anti-ship cruise missiles at a mock target.
  — Felipe Dana, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
• Air defenses in Ukraine destroyed at least nine ballistic and 13 cruise missiles, the government group said.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2024
• An Israeli defense official claimed to Axios that hundreds of cruise missiles were destroyed, and that Hezbollah would struggle to respond because many of its missiles had been knocked out.
  — Barak Ravid, Axios, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024