How to Use short-range in a Sentence

short-range

adjective
  • United to within a goal at 2-1 with his short-range tap-in.
    — The Enquirer, 7 May 2023
  • Graf’s first goal came on a short-range one-timer and his second came on the power play.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
  • This tri-band middle child adds the 6-GHz band for rapid and stable short-range Wi-Fi.
    — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Some days, Hezbollah has fired up to 100 short-range rockets.
    — Isabel Kershner Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
  • With 4:55 to play, King finished on a driving short-range goal from seven yards out.
    — Clark Fahrenthold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2025
  • The short-range ballistic missile was fired off at around 11:05 a.m.
    — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
  • South Korea describes the weapon as a short-range missile system.
    — Kim Tong-Hyung and Hyung-Jin Kim, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2023
  • If confirmed, this would mark one of the first time Hezbollah has fired weapons outside of its short-range arsenal.
    — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Performance is excellent, but the 6-GHz band is short-range.
    — Simon Hill, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Some of that has been the result of a welcome trade of pull-ups 2s for pull-up 3s, but he’s also been much more effective on short-range pull-ups and paint shots.
    — John Hollinger, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Last May, the country test-launched a short-range ballistic missile from the same submarine.
    — Hyung-Jin Kim, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Each dome caps a thirty-five-foot-deep silo that formerly housed a short-range missile.
    — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
  • The car behind was a Nissan Leaf decked out with fifteen cameras, four long-range lidar sensors, and two short-range ones, plus a radar behind the grille.
    — Carlton Reid, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Those weapons are comparatively short-range and low-yield.
    — Lolita C. Baldor and Matthew Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The cheap and widespread availability of quadcopters has changed how squads scout and fight, as hobbyist toys are turned by the tens of thousands into short-range eyes in the sky.
    — Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
  • More than a year of war has depleted Russia’s stocks of cruise missiles and short-range ballistic missiles.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • North Korea has provided Russia with dozens of short-range missiles and as many as 5 million artillery shells to use against Ukraine.
    — Max Boot, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
  • The Department of Defense said the attacks were from short-range and medium-range ballistic missiles.
    — Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 23 June 2025
  • But that, in turn, exposed them to Wagner’s short-range missiles and heavy anti-aircraft machine guns.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2023
  • The Iron Dome is a series of batteries that use radars to detect incoming short-range rockets and intercept them.
    — TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The Iron Dome, which the U.S. had a hand in developing, fends off short-range rockets, rather than barrages of long-range, very fast-traveling missiles early on in their flight.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
  • Iran has sent thousands of drones and short-range missiles to Russia and, according to US officials, built a drone factory there too.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Initial shipments of small arms and short-range defensive weapons kept Russian troops from taking the capital.
    — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • But EVs still had their strengths, especially for the low-speed, short-range uses typical of urban centers.
    — Kevin A. Wilson, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The kind of ship Hurtigruten Norway plans to operate may work great for short-range cruises, but is not feasible for the kinds of deep-sea cruises many travelers take.
    — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
  • In the Crossbar Challenge, Arsenal's players advanced first from the short-range first zone about 20 yards from goal where all three of their players successfully knocked the ball against the crossbar.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 20 July 2023
  • American short-range fighter aircraft can drop bombs and take out enemy planes and surface-to-air missiles.
    — Stacie L. Pettyjohn, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The system is Israel's primary air defense system for short-range missiles and rocket fire.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Iran has many short-range ballistic missiles that can reach American bases and American assets in the region.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
  • The Iron Dome is a mobile all-weather missile defense system, designed to detect and shoot down short-range rockets fired into Israel.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2024

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