How to Use munition in a Sentence

munition

noun
  • Many of the munitions used by both groups are believed to come from Tehran.
    Brad Lendon, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
  • This is deep water with a munitions dump at the bottom of it.
    Alex Morales, Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
  • The munition had likely been buried for more than 30 years.
    Anastasia Hufham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Smoke still filled the air when the green-tipped, 40 millimeter munition struck Killen.
    oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Those who were still alive climbed or were carried into the third car, which was struck by the third munition.
    Karl Vick, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
  • At the moment, both Russia and Ukraine are scouring the earth for more munitions.
    Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Go after their camps and munitions and boats, for sure.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Russia, which has been using cluster munitions in the war, the United States and Ukraine are not part of the treaty group.
    USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
  • The crew is also armed with cluster munitions that scatter mines on the ground.
    John Hudson and Anastacia Galouchka, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The munition exploded, killing his father and wounding the boy in the head.
    New York Times, 14 May 2022
  • The police shot the man after a less lethal munition was deployed, the LAPD statement said.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • What are cluster munitions, which Biden has sent to Ukraine?
    Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • Ukraine has warned its stocks of those munitions are running low.
    Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The day was saved by a munition developed six weeks flat.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Joe Biden is not sending munitions in the middle of a shooting war that's a war of survival.
    CBS News, 12 May 2024
  • Cluster munitions are weapons that break apart and spread smaller bomblets over a large area.
    Riley Rogerson, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
  • Behind just a single block of homes, eight bomblets from a cluster munition lay in a field.
    Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Weapons and warfare experts blame the extensive use of such heavy munitions for the huge death toll.
    Allegra Goodwin, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The video shows the initial explosion of the strike against the munitions facility.
    Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The Pentagon does not provide the amounts of munitions in most cases.
    Lolita C. Baldor and Matthew Lee, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The role of Walter and other women who joined the efforts was to arm the troops with munitions, warships and aircraft.
    Stephanie Toone, ajc, 6 Mar. 2020
  • In the early morning hours of July 25, he was fired on with some sort of impact munition.
    oregonlive, 31 July 2020
  • The fourth clip shows a munition chasing a speeding BMP from behind.
    Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Kim leads a county that's able to supply those munitions.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
  • The United Nations said at the end of March that there were at least two dozen cluster munition attacks on Ukraine since the start of the invasion.
    CNN, 12 May 2022
  • Ukrainians are highly aware of the threat posed by cluster munitions.
    John Hudson and Anastacia Galouchka, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The shipment was delayed for days out of Israeli concerns that it might be used to funnel weapons and munitions to Hamas.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Something – a large munition blew up right here and clearly sprayed this car with shrapnel.
    NBC News, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The funding will facilitate the supply of crucial munitions in 2025 and foster growth in the European defense sector.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • At the same time, Russia is using its still-massive advantage in heavy artillery to pound Ukrainian positions, and carrying out strikes far behind the lines with Lancet loitering munitions.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

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