How to Use intercontinental in a Sentence

intercontinental

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• Jamie xx has announce a huge, intercontinental run of shows behind In Waves that will take him through to March 2025.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Five years ago, the Americans lost a two-leg intercontinental playoff for the final spot in Rio de Janeiro on a goal late in the second half.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2021
• The goal came about a day after the return leg of an intercontinental journey to obtain his visa.
  — Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 5 June 2020
• The other two parts of the triad were the strategic bomber, and the intercontinental ballistic missile.
  — Charles Tiefer, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
• That could suggest that the intercontinental crossing was not an easy path.
  — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2021
• 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
• During the Cold War, the substance was used in intercontinental missiles and submarines.
  — Amia Srinivasan, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
• 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
• The goal came about a day after Locadia completed the return leg of an intercontinental plane trip to retrieve his visa.
  — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 7 July 2020
• 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
• Reports make no mention of Kim delivering a speech at the event or the country’s intercontinental ballistic missiles that were unveiled to the world for the first time last year.
  — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
• As top-notch opposition comes to the United States, the intercontinental competition will function as a dress rehearsal of sorts for the 2026 World Cup on home soil.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
• 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
• At the same time, the first intercontinental telegraph wire was laid in 1858, connecting North America to Europe.
  — TIME, 18 Mar. 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
• Last week, North Korea test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile designed to attack the U.S. mainland for the first time in almost a year.
  — Hyung-Jin Kim and Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
• This is in contrast to intercontinental ballistic missiles that follow a predictable arc through the air after they are launched.
  — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 12 July 2024
• 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 fourth-place finisher will advance to an intercontinental playoff where another World Cup berth will be at stake.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2021
• In the kitchen, Luann is maintaining my favorite of her traits: her passion for intercontinental breakfast eggs.
  — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Some of this data was used to better control the flight of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2019
• 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
• North Korea test-launched a new model of intercontinental ballistic missile last week that was capable of traveling farther and longer than any previous model used by the regime.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024