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Example sentences for "warhead"

Lexicographically close words:
wareroom; warerooms; wares; warf; warfare; warheads; warie; wariest; warily; wariness
  1. I sent a single dummy-warhead missile at each one.

  2. I fired one dummy warhead at each target-ship.

  3. The Isis could have sent down a missile with a limited-yield warhead if its only purpose had been to kill or to destroy.

  4. Test purposes, probably, to check the firing mechanism before the warhead was installed.

  5. The warhead had a delay relay on it," West explained.

  6. The atomic warhead was already in place, waiting for the day of launching, otherwise the task would have been impossible.

  7. Warhead due in less than four minutes," he called into his mike.

  8. But they would have to hurry if they were to get all their supplies and gear moved from Bandit before the warhead struck.

  9. It was designed to protect them from the dangers of meteorite dust, but would it withstand the rain of hell to come when the warhead struck?

  10. If the warhead doesn't get us," Crag reminded him.

  11. He said fretfully, "I doubt if they could put a warhead down on Arzachel.

  12. While he weighed the problem, one part of his mind told him a warhead was scorching down from the sides.

  13. Besides, there's no profit in wasting a warhead on a drone.

  14. If Gotch's figures were right the warhead would strike in four minutes.

  15. Thought of the warhead stirred him to action.

  16. When the cruiser launched an atomic warhead he'd know about it--rather, he wouldn't know.

  17. A single atomic warhead could blow the Station apart.

  18. The shell we used has an atomic bomb warhead and is on proximity guide.

  19. He twisted the dial in the warhead and, while Burl held the aim, shoved in the rocket shell.

  20. Warhead following, and I meeting her but once!

  21. Old Schwartz is a very faithful servant,' said I, thinking that she resembled the old Warhead in visage.

  22. The missile with its deadly warhead exploded in the Pacific Ocean as planned, the physicists and the military men went home to study their notes, and the world shivered once more over the approaching war and tried to forget about it.

  23. The versatile Atlas can be used either for launching man into space or to carry a nuclear warhead as far as 9,000 miles.

  24. Firing on the enemy warhead at this range was not much different from playing Russian Roulette with a fully-loaded revolver.

  25. There was no reason to suppose that the warhead had been temperature-controlled during the pre-launch countdown.

  26. He decided that the most likely event was that the warhead was hidden by one of the other fragments.

  27. No ground-controlled intercept scheme had any hope of selecting the warhead from among that deceptive cloud and destroying it.

  28. Had the enemy camouflaged the warhead so that it looked like a section of the missile's skin?

  29. It was his human judgment and his ability to react correctly in an unpredictable situation which were needed to locate the warhead from among the cluster of decoys and destroy it.

  30. He had destroyed the enemy warhead without setting it off.

  31. The only remaining possibility, then, was that the warhead was being hidden from him by the jammer itself.

  32. The Windstorm carried a K12, a fifteen meter-diameter warhead capable of destroying a natural minor satellite or a large populated colony.

  33. I am overtaking the warhead and will try to neutralize.

  34. Barely beyond the fatal radiation zone the now distant warhead detonated.

  35. Hold and orbit slowly, nose close to the warhead so that I can scope the surface.

  36. Forcing a change in warhead direction with my ship is not possible; the warhead's mass and guidance system exceeds by far any pressure my fighter can exert.

  37. Firing at the warhead won't help, even at close range.

  38. The warhead was less than a hundred meters ahead, and closing.

  39. At this extremely close range the concentrations of laser-quads and explosive decompress energy by both of us at a single point might disable some part of the warhead or set it off.

  40. The thermonuclear warhead launched at the enemy fleet had been faulty or sabotaged into premature detonation.

  41. The warhead is the forward portion of the torpedo and contains usually wet gun-cotton, which is a safe high explosive and can be exploded only by a detonating charge of the more sensitive explosives.

  42. Could they have built an ICBM with a thermonuclear warhead in secret?

  43. In a moment, now, the rocket, a hundred miles overhead, would be nosing down, and then the warhead would open and the magnetic field inside would alter and the mass of negamatter would be ejected.

  44. The projectile is loaded with 250 pounds of guncotton or TNT but the warhead is not loaded at all.

  45. The next thing to do is to fix one end of the rubber strands to the screw-eye in the warhead and the other end to the eye of the propeller-shaft.


    46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "warhead" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bird; blast; charge; load; missile; rocket; torpedo