How to Use launcher in a Sentence

launcher

noun
  • All of them work just like the in-game version of the rocket launcher.
    WIRED, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The man has a rocket launcher for a leg and golden pipes for opera singing.
    Daniel Kohn, Spin, 6 Sep. 2023
  • One, the Vampire, can take down drones with a launcher attached to a pickup truck.
    Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The army said four of the launchers discovered had rockets inside them and were ready to be fired.
    WSJ, 17 Oct. 2023
  • It is equipped with a 30 mm gun, a machine gun and/or a grenade launcher, and can travel up to 60 miles per hour.
    Arkansas Online, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Kids can tinker with the design of their plane and the height of the launcher to see how those factors impact the height and distance of the flight.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Crews are having to climb the launcher using stairs until that is fixed.
    Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Which, of course, might be why the Ukrainians were able to hit the thermobaric launcher.
    David Axe, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2023
  • There are planes, choppers, rocket launchers, AA units, and much more.
    Brittany Vincent, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Last year, Rocket Lab launched 10 flights of its light-class Electron launcher.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In early August, if things stay on schedule, the launcher will be moved to an airlock.
    al, 15 July 2022
  • Each one can carry four PAC-3 missiles, for a total of 16 rounds on each launcher.
    Alex Horton, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The music swells, all is forgiven, and Dennis Reynolds has a grenade launcher.
    Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2022
  • On Target Quick and easy fun, these launchers require no set-up or learning curve.
    Maya Polton, Parents, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The best rocket launcher out of all these here, especially the adept NF version.
    Dan Heching, CNN, 15 May 2023
  • The soldier knelt in the snow, aimed a rocket launcher and fired in the direction of Russian troops positioned about a mile away.
    Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Wuthrich had initially grabbed her 9mm handgun but went back to DeLong’s car to get a 40mm less-lethal launcher.
    oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2023
  • One of the troopers radioed to ask that a pepper ball launcher be brought in, and while waiting on that continued to tell Paez Terán to come out.
    CBS News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • In fan Chloe Donovan’s video of the incident, Wallen doesn’t miss a beat and keeps singing, but looks in the direction of the liquid launcher and gives them a sideways glance.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The lego set comes with a Batman and Penguin figurine as well as Batarang and rocket launcher accessories.
    Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
  • One strike was against a mobile missile launcher and the other against an unmanned aerial system, the sources said.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Last week Poland announced a $2.3 billion deal to buy missiles and missile launchers from the U.K. for its air-defense systems.
    The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 3 May 2023
  • The three men found guilty—two Russians and one Ukrainian—were involved in the deployment of the Buk antiaircraft missile launcher used to shoot down the jet, the court said.
    Isabel Coles, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
  • For $25 a month, your kid can build (among other things) a disc launcher and drawing machine, and enter to win a trip to Rober's CrunchLabs in person.
    People Staff, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Saturday's strikes marked the third time the U.S. and Britain had conducted a large joint operation to strike Houthi weapon launchers, radar sites and drones.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 4 Feb. 2024
  • This money will be used, in part, for the development of the larger Tianlong-3 launcher and its rocket engines.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The mission was supposed to show that its launcher can operate from any airport in the world with a runway long enough to handle a Boeing 747.
    Benjamin Katz, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2023
  • At one point, police shot him with a 40-millimeter foam tip launcher, sending Torres tumbling to the ground.
    Libor Janystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
  • One officer pointed a grenade or tear gas launcher at the rioters’ heads.
    Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • With minimal effort, a motivated dog will learn to use the launcher in no time.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 6 Oct. 2022

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