projectiles

Example Sentences

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It still might not be the best idea to let people throw projectiles as the night goes on, though.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026

The projectiles, according to the report, struck an area of around 13 hectares—roughly the size of two dozen football fields.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

His organisation has tracked at least seven ships it says have been hit by projectiles and damaged in the war so far.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

Ships would be vulnerable to mines, and projectiles launched from shore.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

This was a reasonable view, since they were the only tools needed for Copernican astronomy and for Galileo’s two new sciences, the science of projectiles and the science of load-bearing structures.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton