6 sentences with 'launching'
Example sentences and phrases with the word launching and other words derived from it.
• « Behind the trenches were artillery batteries, capable of launching huge shells for miles, and further back still the command posts of senior officers futilely devising new variations on a constant theme: desperate assaults on the enemy's impregnable position. »
• « When the US government learned of the Soviet missiles, serious consideration was given to launching a full-scale assault on Cuba, something that could have led directly to nuclear war. »
• « Many US military leaders believed at the time in the possibility of a "limited nuclear war" in which the missile sites would be destroyed quickly enough to prevent the Soviets from launching counterattacks. »
• « These soldiers created far-right terrorist groups, launching attacks on prominent intellectuals who spoke out against the war (the leading French philosopher of the time, Jean-Paul Sartre, had his flat in Paris destroyed in a bomb attack). »
• « In September 1826, General Carlos de Alvear took command of the Republican Army and set about launching an offensive against the Brazilian forces. »
• « The skunk's defence mechanism consists of two glands located under its tail, capable of launching its pestilent musk at a distance of up to three metres, with extraordinary accuracy. »