How to Use ammo in a Sentence

ammo

noun

• The soldiers ran out of ammo.
• McGinnis said this meant the Glock with the ammo weighed over twice as much as the Taser.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
• Tear gas started a fire, and the fire blew up some of the thousands of rounds of ammo the SLA had cached in the house.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
• First being not to have real ammo on the set, or on the truck.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 23 Oct. 2021
• Two picks would give them more ammo in the honeypot of the draft.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
• There’s even a braai kit with the MadKon ammo box grill.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 25 Nov. 2020
• The gas stations sell live bait, and the hardware stores sell ammo.
  — Max B. Sawicky, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2021
• And this is a bizarre time to remove ammo the Fed is using to fight the crisis.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 20 Nov. 2020
• Not all shootings are such a boon for gun and ammo stocks.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 25 May 2022
• True strength doesn’t need to drape itself in long guns and ammo belts.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
• Joel shoots his revolver at one of the Clickers but runs out of ammo and has to reload.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
• Inside an air shaft, in the area that leads to the slide, there are eight Nerf guns with 1,000 rounds of Nerf gun ammo.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
• There’s no need for live ammo or even blanks onset in this day and age.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 22 Oct. 2021
• The last bit of the game is more all-out action mechs, hordes of enemies and loads of ammo.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2021
• But at least some U.S.-made ammo is heading out of the country.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2021
• Your ammo is almost, but not quite, right for your gun.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 24 Sep. 2020
• Many of the rebels were in their 60s and 70s, with deep creases etched into their brows and ammo belts wrapped around their waist.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• It has never been made clear how live ammo made it onto the set.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 6 Mar. 2024
• The Rangers and Rays stockpiled ammo for the postseason.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• Still, the extra ammo will not change the overall dynamics of the war.
  — Simon Shuster, TIME, 8 July 2024
• The crooks are going into text, call and email exchanges with a lot of ammo.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 19 July 2024
• The gun, filled with a type of buckshot, was designed to send the ammo flying if triggered.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
• The lawmaker doesn’t want to add his bans on workable guns and live ammo to the penal code.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• The officer did take the gun and ammo, which were going to be destroyed.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 23 Mar. 2022
• The drugs, money and ammo were taken from Williamson and his stash houses.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 11 Aug. 2022
• Brian’s father passed along his love of the sport, along with plenty of ammo.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2021
• Keller noted that to compensate for the changes, the auto-reload of Lifeweaver’s thorn ammo will be slowed down.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Is this providing Sarah with more ammo to take out Tyson?
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2022
• There were four backpacks with ammo; if two popped, two more popped, so the rest of the backpacks were already without ammo.
  — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
• The back-to-back ammo dump raids signal a shift in Ukraine’s campaign of deep strikes targeting strategic targets inside Russia.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024