How to Use ammunition in a Sentence

ammunition

noun

• The troops were supplied with weapons and ammunition.
• The drones broke the roof and dropped the ammunition inside.
  — Gaëlle Girbes, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
• The safe was open on the bed next to an empty box of 9mm ammunition.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2023
• If passed, the bill would impose a use and sales tax on the retail sale of ammunition.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 12 Jan. 2024
• There's … some 12-gauge and some 22-caliber loose ammunition in the bottom of the bag.
  — CBS News, 24 Sep. 2022
• Her job was to look at the ammunition and put in the dummy round or the blank round, and there wasn’t supposed to be any live rounds on the set.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2022
• But the civilian sailors crewed the ships that carried the troops, the ammunition and the sinews of war across the Atlantic and Pacific.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Nov. 2022
• So why a tax on the makers and sellers of firearms and ammunition?
  — Eileen McCarron, The Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2024
• Gi-hun and Jung-bae run out of hope and ammunition, and surrender the fight.
  — Esther Kang, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
• Six rounds of ammunition was found elsewhere in the car.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2022
• Nearly out of ammunition, Mr. Waugh was hit in the knee by machine-gun fire, and then in the foot and ankle.
  — Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
• The Western tanks could help open a new pipeline for ammunition to flow to Ukraine.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 Jan. 2023
• Emerging from the midterms, the anti-Trump wing has plenty of ammunition to make its case for a break.
  — Maya King, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
• Even if the box of ammunition is not full, the bullets must be in their original case.
  — Daily Times, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
• The team was also out of ammunition, except for a dozen hand grenades.
  — Matt Seyler, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2023
• Hanwha has shipped howitzers to Egypt and ammunition to the UK.
  — Eli Joseph, Fortune Asia, 6 June 2024
• Hutchins was killed with live ammunition, which was not supposed to be on set.
  — Ana Faguy, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• More weapons and ammunition were found in his car, the official said.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 7 May 2023
• Safety Bulletin #1 deals with the use of firearms and blank ammunition on sets.
  — Anousha Sakouistaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2022
• Hunters and sport shooters will find ample ammunition for sale at the Bi-Mart display, billed as the biggest sale in the state.
  — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 10 Feb. 2023
• Among the ammunition seized from the film location were live rounds found on a cart and in the holster that was in the building where the shooting happened.
  — CBS News, 16 Aug. 2022
• Ukrainian trucks would arrive at the airport to pick up the ammunition.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• Both sides have run low on ammunition, heavy equipment and skilled troops.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2023
• The war has become, in the eyes of some Western officials, a battle over who has the most ammunition.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2022
• The ammunition and safety features of the JR-15 also differ from the AR-15.
  — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2023
• Even if the box of ammunition is not full, bullets must be in their original case.
  — Lexi Harpster, Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 2025
• But the decision is likely to be used as ammunition as Trump’s lawyers seek a dismissal of the election case as well.
  — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2024
• The slow pace needed a jolt and ammunition to sustain it in the long term, say military experts.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2023
• Despite their best efforts and ammunition low, In-ho took two other men to meet up with Gi-hun and Jung-bae with more rounds.
  — Esther Kang, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
• He was sentenced in November to three years and two months in prison for illegally possessing firearms and ammunition.
  — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2025