How to Use warhead in a Sentence

warhead

noun
  • Its nose contains a warhead and can be equipped with a camera.
    — William Neff, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
  • This warhead is a dense three pounds and fits completely in my hand.
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • Unlike a warhead, a laser needs time on target.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The drones are equipped with a javelin anti-tank warhead to hit armored tanks.
    — David Martin, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2022
  • And that can be put into a warhead or it can even be put into a suitcase.
    — ABC News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Not timing of a nuclear warhead [or a] stock trade kind of thing.
    — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2020
  • When the tripwires are disturbed, the mine ejects a small warhead that explodes.
    — John Ismay, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2024
  • There is no free lunch and in fact most of the energy put into the warhead is wasted.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The missile was not armed with a nuclear warhead during the test.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The men load the warheads carefully into the bodies of the drones.
    — Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Those weapons could include hypersonic warheads that can fly faster than the speed of sound.
    — Lee Roop, AL.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • But also keeping in mind that nuclear warhead is still there.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • From now on, no missiles will be launched with warheads lighter than one ton, Majid Mousavi said.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Such a warhead could knock out large sections of any Golden Dome system in space.
    — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 20 May 2025
  • By the end of the nineteen-sixties, the five nations had almost forty thousand warheads.
    — Robin Wright, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The warheads burst open at high altitudes, scattering dozens of smaller bomblets across a wide area.
    — Melanie Lidman, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The warheads burst open at high altitudes, scattering dozens of smaller bomblets across a wide area.
    — Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The warheads provide a rare hard substrate where animals can attach and thrive.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Trump has authorized a new nuclear warhead, the first in 34 years.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 2 Feb. 2018
  • When attacking an armored tank, the Javelin's flight can form an arc that drops the warhead on tanks less-armored top.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2018
  • 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
  • There are actually fewer warheads now than there were at the height of the Cold War.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 16 Nov. 2025
  • These will include live warhead demonstrations.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Between them, the two countries have about 87% of the world’s nuclear warheads.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The bombs’ nuclear warheads weren’t armed, but their plutonium cores were.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Apr. 2026
  • But Russia is believed to have more, with 5,459 warheads.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The new study focused on the Bay of Lübeck, where V-1 flying bomb warheads lie on the seafloor.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025

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