How to Use antimissile in a Sentence

antimissile

adjective
  • The sale of antimissile systems to stop Houthi missile attacks would be allowed under the bill.
    — Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2018
  • Many more and better air-defense systems, such as Patriot antimissile batteries, should be sent as well.
    — Robert Zubrin, National Review, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Taiwan’s antimissile defense system ranks among the most sophisticated in the world.
    — Michelle Kuo, The Dial, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The main purpose of this unusual delivery method seems to be bypassing any possible antimissile defences.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 25 Nov. 2015
  • Korean car makers were similarly hit when the country decided to install an antimissile defense system.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 19 June 2018
  • China fears the antimissile system, meant as protection against North Korea, threatens its own security.
    — Jane Perlez, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Iron Dome antimissile system, which intercepted thousands of Hamas rockets fired toward Israeli cities.
    — Michael Crowley, New York Times, 14 June 2021
  • China has a stranglehold on the world’s supply of rare-earth metals—elements vital to every aspect of modern technology from display screens to antimissile systems.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 27 July 2019
  • Recently, however, Moscow has signed contracts to supply its southern neighbor with more natural gas, a nuclear power plant and an advanced antimissile shield.
    — David Gauthier-Villars, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2018
  • And key research and development centers, including one used to jam the Israeli antimissile defense system, were destroyed, according to several officers.
    — New York Times, 21 May 2021
  • More than 1,000 rockets had been fired from Gaza by Wednesday night, most of them intercepted by an antimissile defense system, the Israeli military said.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2021
  • For example, support for nuclear armament and an American antimissile defense system in South Korea continues to grow.
    — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The Pentagon is considering sending Patriot antimissile batteries to Ukraine amid the bombardment of cities by Russian missiles and drones.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Israel considers the use of drones by its enemies, especially Iran, as a major threat to its security because drones can evade Israel’s advanced antimissile systems like the Iron Dome.
    — Ronen Bergman, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022
  • China has long combined its economic and political priorities, using trade as a weapon in recent years in territorial disputes with Japan and the Philippines and to protest South Korea’s installation of an antimissile system.
    — Ben Dooley, New York Times, 15 July 2019

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