How to Use long-range in a Sentence

long-range

adjective
  • Don't think about just the short term, but think about long-range goals.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The long-range forecast calls for a high of 48 degrees and rain.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2024
  • And yet the authors of this campaign have long-range goals, not just short-term ones.
    The Editors, National Review, 8 May 2023
  • A lot of people want to be that long-range, thousand-yard sniper.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 7 May 2023
  • And the current Dodgers want to win every game, but not at the expense of long-range goals.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
  • Smart willingly pulled Capela from the hoop and fired away from long-range.
    Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • This is true even when the fighters also had long-range weapons.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But we are not done with the long-range implications of covid.
    Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • So far, long-range forecasts for March are looking wet and cold.
    Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Best Fit: The TarHunt is a long-range slayer for the accuracy snob.
    Tony Hansen, Outdoor Life, 22 June 2023
  • And the long-range version currently being sold has a range of 330 miles.
    Scott Burns, Dallas News, 18 May 2023
  • Some questions have been raised about Gill’s catch because of the duration of the long-range trip and the tackle used.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The Ukrainians want to go on the attack, either on the ground or with long-range strikes, with the hopes of seizing the world’s attention.
    Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Goicoechea converted a long-range shot with two seconds left in the third quarter for a 6-3 lead.
    Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2023
  • There is nothing in the public record to suggest that Trump does long-range planning.
    Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 26 July 2024
  • The weapon, the JCS said, was believed to be a long-range ballistic missile launched at a high angle.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The complaint showed photos of the suspect with a long-range rifle and a type of camouflage known as a ghillie suit.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • This vocalization is a long-range call that announces the presence of the turkey that sounds it out.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 2 May 2024
  • The other would have been for a larger, long-range drone in Ukraine to slip through Russian air defenses.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2023
  • Forecasters say most long-range models keep the system away from the U.S. due to fierce winds over the Gulf of Mexico.
    Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • While the hottest temperatures may have peaked over the weekend, the long-range outlook looks to remain quite warm for the Northwest.
    Jennifer Gray, CNN, 15 May 2023
  • Either way, long-range electric camping seems to have finally made its way to the US.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 15 May 2023
  • That number has since ballooned to 37.5 long-range tries this season, the most in NBA history and an increase for the third straight.
    Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2024
  • This long-range heating is apparent among its four Galilean moons.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • By the numbers: The growing urgency of Georgia can also be seen in the Trump campaign's long-range ad buys.
    Axios, 18 Aug. 2024
  • How does the Old Farmer's Almanac make long-range weather predictions?
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 30 July 2024
  • The People’s Park project, plus other housing outlined in the long-range plan, would double the number of on-campus beds.
    Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The new tags now collect the data daily and compress it into a 12-byte file before transmitting it back to the research team via a novel long-range network.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The aircraft can track targets at long range with enough accuracy to guide long-range antiair weapons, whether launched from fighter jets, ships or the ground, Sweetman said.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025

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