How to Use short-range in a Sentence

short-range

adjective

• United to within a goal at 2-1 with his short-range tap-in.
  — The Enquirer, 7 May 2023
• Some days, Hezbollah has fired up to 100 short-range rockets.
  — Isabel Kershner Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
• The short-range ballistic missile was fired off at around 11:05 a.m.
  — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
• South Korea describes the weapon as a short-range missile system.
  — Kim Tong-Hyung and Hyung-Jin Kim, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2023
• If confirmed, this would mark one of the first time Hezbollah has fired weapons outside of its short-range arsenal.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 22 Sep. 2024
• Performance is excellent, but the 6-GHz band is short-range.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
• Last May, the country test-launched a short-range ballistic missile from the same submarine.
  — Hyung-Jin Kim, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
• Each dome caps a thirty-five-foot-deep silo that formerly housed a short-range missile.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
• Those weapons are comparatively short-range and low-yield.
  — Lolita C. Baldor and Matthew Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• The cheap and widespread availability of quadcopters has changed how squads scout and fight, as hobbyist toys are turned by the tens of thousands into short-range eyes in the sky.
  — Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
• More than a year of war has depleted Russia’s stocks of cruise missiles and short-range ballistic missiles.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• North Korea has provided Russia with dozens of short-range missiles and as many as 5 million artillery shells to use against Ukraine.
  — Max Boot, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
• But that, in turn, exposed them to Wagner’s short-range missiles and heavy anti-aircraft machine guns.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2023
• The Iron Dome is a series of batteries that use radars to detect incoming short-range rockets and intercept them.
  — TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
• Iran has sent thousands of drones and short-range missiles to Russia and, according to US officials, built a drone factory there too.
  — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 15 Oct. 2024
• Initial shipments of small arms and short-range defensive weapons kept Russian troops from taking the capital.
  — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• But EVs still had their strengths, especially for the low-speed, short-range uses typical of urban centers.
  — Kevin A. Wilson, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2023
• The kind of ship Hurtigruten Norway plans to operate may work great for short-range cruises, but is not feasible for the kinds of deep-sea cruises many travelers take.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• In the Crossbar Challenge, Arsenal's players advanced first from the short-range first zone about 20 yards from goal where all three of their players successfully knocked the ball against the crossbar.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 20 July 2023
• The system is Israel's primary air defense system for short-range missiles and rocket fire.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2023
• The Iron Dome is a mobile all-weather missile defense system, designed to detect and shoot down short-range rockets fired into Israel.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2024
• Russia is running low on conventional weapons such as artillery shells and short-range ballistic missiles as its war in Ukraine drags on.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
• Meanwhile, North Korea was reported to have fired a barrage of short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Tuesday.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 5 Nov. 2024
• Since its June 15 launches of two short-range ballistic missiles, North Korea hasn’t performed any further public weapons tests.
  — Hyung-Jin Kim, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
• The Iron Dome's short-range defense system intercepts most rockets fired toward Israel.
  — NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• In another show of force that month Pyongyang launched two short-range ballistic missiles, which landed in the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
  — Larry Register, CNN, 6 Aug. 2023
• The Stinger is a portable surface-to-air defense system that can be carried and fired by troops or mounted onto a vehicle and used as short-range defense against aircraft.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 10 July 2024
• The likes of the Bingo and Seagull make the most of electric technology with their unpretentious utility for short-range use like the daily commute, shopping and school run, with no long-range claims.
  — Neil Winton, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• This is the first ballistic missile launch since Kim Jong Un’s regime fired off a simultaneous barrage of short-range ballistic missiles in late May.
  — Jon Herskovitz and Shinhye Kang / Bloomberg, TIME, 26 June 2024
• These systems are being integrated into their short-range air defense networks, with smaller systems being pushed out to small units at the front.
  — Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 12 Feb 2025