How to Use munition in a Sentence
munition
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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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