How to Use interceptor in a Sentence

interceptor

noun

• The interceptors are launched from the top of the tank.
  — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
• The agency plans to increase the fleet to 44 by year’s end by adding interceptors at Fort Greely.
  — David Willman, latimes.com, 30 May 2017
• It can’t be pumped up through the above-ground system – which flows one way -- and went through interceptor and into the repair trench.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 23 Aug. 2017
• Each Iron Dome launch unit is armed with up to 20 Tamir interceptor rockets.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2021
• Raytheon makes a version of that Iron Dome interceptor, and the Israelis may need more supply soon.
  — TIME, 8 Oct. 2023
• The Navy developed the A-7 attack plane and the F-14 interceptor.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• The fourth bomber group will be the invading force and the fourth interceptor command the defending force.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2021
• The video shows two high-speed passes by Su-27 interceptors.
  — The Editors, National Review, 17 Mar. 2023
• If the path looks like the rocket will land in a populated area, the interceptors are deployed.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2023
• The title comes from the fact that the action takes place on a nuclear missile interceptor base in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 29 May 2022
• The shooter then launches an interceptor, and the EKV steers itself into the warhead path.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Nov. 2020
• The total cost to Israel of firing all of its interceptors is around $48 million.
  — Iain Boyd, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
• Hundreds of rockets and interceptor strikes lighted up the night sky over Israel and Gaza.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2021
• Each side in Star Wars: Squadrons features four ships: a fighter, interceptor, bomber, and support ship.
  — Brittany Vincent, CNN Underscored, 1 Oct. 2020
• The plane likely will be similar to the F-102A interceptor.
  — Thomas E. Stimson, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2021
• Although the interceptor may hold up for years, or not, surgery is underway.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• The system uses radar and short-range interceptor missiles to detect, track, and shoot down artillery rounds in mid-flight.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2019
• The first interceptor went to work in Jakarta, Indonesia, to pull plastic from a waterway called the Cengkareng drain.
  — Christopher Dawson, CNN, 9 Oct. 2020
• The company’s Anvil interceptor drones can ram into hostile drones in the sky.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 29 May 2024
• The interceptor system has been in place since 2004, but it has never been used in combat or fully tested.
  — Robert Burns, The Seattle Times, 26 May 2017
• Jeremiah Beaman does just that as an interceptor on defense and a tight end on offense.
  — Mike Perrin | , al, 19 Aug. 2023
• There is a radar, there's a fire-control system or computer and there are interceptors.
  — Paul Gattis, AL.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Defenses around the city and at a nearby Israeli air base fired interceptors.
  — Majd Al-Waheidi, NPR, 5 May 2024
• Small missiles could also be put on UAVs as boost-phase interceptors, firing a minute or so after launch.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• What Israelis don’t see is the true heart of the system—not the interceptor missiles or the mobile batteries, but the mathematics.
  — Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 24 May 2021
• Each Iron Dome battery consists of three to four launchers that can each carry up to 20 Tamir interceptor missiles.
  — Melissa Gaffney, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2024
• Each Iron Dome battery consists of three to four launchers that can each carry up to 20 Tamir interceptor missiles.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2023
• And Iron Dome interceptor systems typically shoot down most of the rest.
  — Michael J. Armstrong, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
• The system includes an advanced radar that tracks incoming missiles and guides its 20-foot-long interceptors.
  — David Brennan, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2024
• Stocks of interceptor missiles are also fired by air defense launchers to take out an incoming threat.
  — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024