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
  • 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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