How to Use howitzer in a Sentence

howitzer

noun

• And his four-beat kick into the song's B section had the force of a howitzer salute.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 24 Aug. 2021
• That doesn't just mean the employment of the howitzer, but the gunnery as well.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Jan. 2019
• Daniel Aguilar joined the Army a year ago and trained to operate a howitzer.
  — Washington Post, 7 June 2019
• Two brass howitzers had been carried off a ship to a prairie near Fort Nisqually.
  — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2018
• Luis Gomez was the quarterback, tall and with an arm like a howitzer.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2021
• The most common howitzer provided to Ukraine, the M-777, can be towed by truck.
  — Patrick Galey, NBC News, 29 Apr. 2022
• By then, his squad had already fired some 3,000 shells, all of them captured, through the howitzer.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2023
• Three months later, the howitzers had been repaired and shipped to the staging center in Poland.
  — Lara Jakes, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• Aside from those gifts, Richardson has a howitzer strapped to his shoulder.
  — Evan Frank, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Apr. 2023
• In the morning, Laurens and another soldier tried to set up the howitzer, but the British struck first.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2020
• Wayne Rooney's howitzer beyond the sprawling David Seaman in 2002 is one of those.
  — SI.com, 7 July 2019
• The Pentagon shipping more than half the howitzer long-range artillery guns pledged to Ukraine.
  — ABC News, 1 May 2022
• It’s one thing to get a large howitzer or tank or thousands of artillery shells to Ukraine’s western borders.
  — New York Times, 15 June 2022
• Her rhetorical howitzer across the stage left even the moderators stumped on whom to turn to for a response.
  — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
• From time to time, a howitzer fires and the shell can be heard shrieking on its arc overhead before exploding on the other side.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
• While the selection process for a new howitzer gets underway, the army could get a few new-ish guns to bridge the gap between the AS-90s and whatever comes next.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• But why does the histamine howitzer sometimes get trained on harmless sesame seeds or soybeans?
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• These nights did not happen to the 2019 Ravens, who were blessed with good health and hit unsuspecting opponents like they were shot out of a howitzer.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 16 Nov. 2020
• The early stages of the training focused on specific weapons systems supplied by the United States, such as the howitzer.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 23 June 2023
• As a result, Ukraine has begun using the 105 mm howitzer, which has a smaller payload and shorter range.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 23 Oct. 2022
• Shortly after midnight, a huge howitzer on base starts pounding out its heavy shells.
  — jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• Tears of the Kingdom gives you the freedom to build your own bizarre solutions to problems, from airships to giant robots that will blow the poor Moblins apart with howitzers.
  — Steven T. Wright, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
• Then, with just three minutes remaining, Brad Guden blasted a howitzer from the point that found its way through net-front traffic and found the back of the net for a tying goal.
  — Mike Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023
• It’s painted a gray/green hue almost as if to nestle into the machine shed alongside jerry cans and a howitzer.
  — Matt Bean, Sunset Magazine, 25 Aug. 2020
• Overshadowed by high-tech killing tools and the blunt power of howitzers and mortars, Ukraine’s snipers are part of a more rudimentary force: the infantry.
  — Natalia Yermak David Guttenfelder, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• The 6-inch French howitzer shell, complete with fuse, still contained gunpowder.
  — Fox News, 19 July 2019
• Britain is also sending hundreds of drones and 18 howitzer artillery guns.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 15 Oct. 2022
• Any howitzer fires farther than 2.2 miles, of course, so a Leopard 1A5’s ability to see and shoot at long range—for a tank, that is—won’t save it from an artillery barrage.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• And more than a few spectators jumped as the first of 19 howitzer cannon blasts rang out into the air, each new blast further unfurling a thick cloud of smoke across the common.
  — Ivy Scott, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
• Paper cuts can’t stand up to a howitzer, and the Raiders’ keep-every-thing-in-front defense didn’t function when the Chiefs used their speed and Mahomes’ video-game arm to simply throw it over the defense’s head.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024