How to Use warhead in a Sentence

warhead

noun

• But in 2019, the bond market has looked more like the tip of a warhead aimed at their portfolios.
  — Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2019
• The drones are equipped with a javelin anti-tank warhead to hit armored tanks.
  — David Martin, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2022
• Its nose contains a warhead and can be equipped with a camera.
  — William Neff, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
• It was not equipped with a warhead and had no rocket fuel.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• The missile was not armed with a nuclear warhead during the test.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• In a flash, a warhead flattened the home, killing the snipers, al-Layla and his wife, and their daughter, who was downstairs.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• Then the warheads have free flight through the edge of space and only reenter the atmosphere near their target.
  — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023
• Not timing of a nuclear warhead [or a] stock trade kind of thing.
  — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2020
• Some experts believe that same warhead was part of the tests conducted on Feb. 26 and March 4.
  — David E. Sanger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• Its frontal armor can easily shrug off a hit from the type of RPG warhead carried by a Ghoul.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• It’s one thing to design a missile with a seeker and warhead that work equally well against targets in the air and on the surface.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• In 2017, the U.S. and South Korean governments agreed to lift the limit on warhead weight.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 24 May 2021
• The Hwasong-15 has a range that could deliver a nuclear warhead to all of the U.S. mainland, weapons experts have said.
  — Jeong-Ho Lee, Bloomberg.com, 29 Mar. 2022
• But the Army was in the process of introducing a new and improved weapon: the Nike Hercules, each equipped with a nuclear warhead.
  — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2021
• From Tunnels to Silo Fields China is not only on a quest for more warheads.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• The Shahed-136 is an inexpensive kamikaze drone loaded with a warhead that weighs around sixty to eighty pounds.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2022
• The rocket and spacecraft would have to be moved to free up room for the missile carrying a nuclear warhead.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2022
• Flagg tells his people how the Trashcan Man is bringing fire in the form of a warhead to a plane that Flagg will fly to Boulder, killing their enemies.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2021
• The original version was about six feet long and weighed eighty pounds with an eighteen pounds warhead, but only had a range of two miles.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• The weapon instead slammed into the nearby concrete, its warhead shredding more than a dozen floor’s worth of of windows down the building’s side.
  — Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• The drones were designed for reconnaissance but can be fitted with a warhead.
  — Karina Zaiets, USA Today, 7 Dec. 2022
• The warhead is believed to carry 11 kilograms of high explosives, IHS Jane's said.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 18 May 2021
• The United States and Russia between them hold nearly 90% of the world’s nuclear warheads, enough to destroy the planet many times over.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 23 Jan. 2024
• Los Alamos has made 11 development pits so far this year, but none of them are destined for warheads.
  — Time, 24 July 2023
• The option of launching without the warhead could in turn be leveraged to considerably boost range.
  — Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• Such a weapon would have a range of thousands of miles, reach its target in minutes, and likely carry a nuclear warhead.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2020
• The inert warhead simply smashed into the satellite at blinding speed.
  — William J. Broad, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2021
• Trump did not elaborate, but the weapon is probably the new W76-2 low-yield nuclear warhead.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2020
• There are obviously problems with using nuclear warheads in space.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
• But Iran carried out that attack largely with slower-moving drones, which were much easier intercepts for the fighter jets than the ballistic warheads falling vertically on targets in Israel.
  — Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024