How to Use howitzer in a Sentence

howitzer

noun

• Clam-shell doors open the back, where the jeeps and howitzers would once have driven in.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2018
• 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
• This 200-ton howitzer artillery gun is too heavy to transport in one piece.
  — smithsonianmag.com, 2 May 2017
• This 200-ton howitzer artillery gun is too heavy to transport in one piece.
  — smithsonianmag.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Hanwha has shipped howitzers to Egypt and ammunition to the UK.
  — Eli Joseph, Fortune Asia, 6 June 2024
• 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
• The strength of a laser isn't expressed in pounds like an aircraft bomb, or the diameter of a howitzer barrel.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2016
• Soldiers threw on body armor and helmets, raced to their howitzer and set about firing.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Once that was accomplished, a howitzer could be parked on top of much lighter vehicles.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Some have howitzers for an arm; others can barely throw it 50 yards downfield.
  — Steven Ruiz, For The Win, 18 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Abdul Jalal Jalal yelled, after a 122-millimeter howitzer shell hit a mud compound and a cloud of smoke rose.
  — Sharif Hassan, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024