How to Use short-range in a Sentence
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Around 10 red and green nuclear warheads were displayed alongside short-range ballistic missiles and long-range cruise missiles.
— Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2023 -
Wallace traces cellphones back to World War II battlefields, where soldiers relied on short-range mobile radios to relay messages from the trenches.
— Michelle Delgado, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023 -
Because the mountains evolved in isolation, conditions led to the origin of numerous short-range endemic species.
— Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024 -
Tehran supplied Shiite militias in Iraq with short-range and close-range ballistic missiles in 2019, Taleblu said, but they had not been used until November's attacks.
— Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 25 Jan. 2024
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