radius of action
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
As oxytocin comes into sharper focus, its social radius of action turns out to have definite limits.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2011
Their limited radius of action makes them more like antiaircraft guns than intercepter airplanes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The carrying-loads of air vessels and their radius of action are also limited.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lightly armored, many of the cruisers sacrifice radius of action for speed as high as 40 knots for the light types.
From Time Magazine Archive
They had seen the ship through the waters within the radius of action of the German submarines.
From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
