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projectiles

noun as in bullet

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noun as in weapon

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He is said to have thrown a bag of popcorn—popcorn being by volume, weight, and force one of the very least harmful projectiles.

Apparently there was concern that those female-hygiene products could be used as projectiles and thrown at state senators.

An electromagnetic shield could potentially halt incoming projectiles launched from Gaza, Tehran, or North Korea.

There is concern that these female-hygiene products could be used as projectiles and thrown at state senators.

First, the vast majority of projectiles from Gaza result in no injuries or deaths.

Left on a picket boat with Birdie to board my destroyer to an accompaniment of various denominations of projectiles.

Her plating was but pine wood to the steel projectiles, flying with almost the swiftness of a minnie bullet.

Except for a handful of projectiles fired off from the moon daily, there was almost no weapon in use against them.

Factories a long way under ground, behind the Soviet lines, factories that had once made atomic projectiles, now almost forgotten.

The projectiles, it was discovered later, came from mortars of a kind the existence of which had not been suspected.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to projectiles, such as: rocket, missile, and shell.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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