Sentence examples similar to referring to rocket from inspiring English sources

"Some of them kept running around, and they picked up something that looked like an R.P.G.," Sergeant Johnson said, referring to rocket-propelled grenades.

Now, the Americans avoid Falluja's main street because "it's been a little problematic recently with some RPG and small-arms attacks," said the team's leader, Phil French, referring to rocket-propelled grenades.

He was referring to rockets that have been fired from Gaza at the power station in Ashkelon.

Elon Musk tweeted that the company will have similar "rapid unscheduled disassemblies" — as the company refers to rocket explosions — in the future, but that it is making progress.

RPG refers to rocket-propelled grenades and IED is the term for improvised explosive devices, or homemade bombs the guerrillas assemble by drawing on unguarded caches of weapons or explosives they hid during the war.

Most important, the statement said, "the document specifically described the battle group's vulnerability to a terrorist attack, and provides specific examples on how the ships might be attacked (e.g., 'they have nothing to stop a small craft with RPG etc, except their Seals' stinger missiles')." The initials R.P.G. refer to rocket-propelled grenade, and Seals are naval Special Operations Forces.

"A rocket fell by our house in Rishon LeZion," said Anat Cohen, 34, a vacationer who works at a high-tech company, referring to a rocket fired by Palestinians from Gaza during an Israeli offensive there last November.

"The resignation is only due to the failure to prevent the attack; nothing of the past was in consideration," he said, referring to the rocket and mortar attack on the first day of the peace jirga in Kabul, when about 1,600 people were in attendance.

A commentator on Twitter noted that the whole thing is very "Tintin-esque," no doubt referring to the rocket flown by the beloved Belgian comic book hero in "Destination Moon" and "Explorers on the Moon".

Advertising the design of the company's rockets recently in El Segundo before military brass and assorted space bureaucrats, Musk, self-taught in aeronautics, deftly parried questions about "pintle injector geometry" (referring to the rocket engine's nozzle) and "Merlin turbo-pump assemblies" (fuel pumps).

I don't think we can say that about the Unha-3," Shin said, referring to the rocket launched on Dec. 12.