How to Use small arm in a Sentence

small arm

noun
  • Deep State,’ won’t that pit your small arms against its tanks and bombers?
    Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2018
  • Russian soldiers used small arms to fire at some of the drones.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Despite flying out of small arms range, the team was not yet out of danger.
    Matt Seyler, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The troops included 162 men equipped with small arms and artillery.
    Kate C. Lemay, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
  • This means Jaguar armor will protect the crew against the gamut of small arms fire and 155mm artillery shell shrapnel.
    Allison Barrie, Fox News, 18 June 2018
  • They were armed with small arms, machine guns, and a single-shot grenade launcher.
    NBC News, 8 May 2018
  • Civilians died in five attacks carried out by small arms and heavy weapons.
    Samy Magdy, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Most conflict deaths are caused by small arms, which tend to last longer and spread further than other weapons.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Enrique Mondragon of Texas was killed by small arms fire.
    Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2017
  • The earbuds themselves feature a sloped oval design, with a small arm that extends into the ear.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Joseph Maciel of South Gate, California, was shot by small arms fire and killed.
    Lolita C. Baldor, chicagotribune.com, 14 July 2018
  • Once the rover team has completed its cache and NASA has approved the plan, a small arm under the rover will begin to discharge the sample tubes.
    Byeric Hand, science.org, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Ask only for small arms or some ammunition, and chancers will try their luck.
    The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Much has changed since 1776, including, of course, the efficacy of small arms.
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 8 Oct. 2017
  • The earbuds themselves are small and circular, with a small arm that protrudes into your ears.
    Christian De Looper, BGR, 20 July 2021
  • Johnson was eventually pinned down by an ISIS truck armed with a machine gun and he was killed by small arms fire.
    Zachary Cohen and Ryan Browne, CNN, 10 May 2018
  • Over the past months, Palestinians have mainly fired small arms, flown flaming kites and attempted to cross the border in small groups.
    Felicia Schwartz and Dov Lieber, WSJ, 29 May 2018
  • According to the military's Africa command, the unit came under fire from mortars and small arms.
    Dennis Wagner, azcentral, 14 June 2018
  • The team came under small arms and explosives fire, leading the agency to delay its mission.
    Philip Issa, The Seattle Times, 21 Apr. 2018
  • But across the bridge that spans the small arm of the Senegal River, in the poorer neighborhoods on the Langue de Barbarie, coastal erosion is an immediate threat.
    Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 23 May 2018
  • Even in this case, where small arms fire is a major threat, the suits would offer barely more than minimal protection.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The sheer silence of the city was broken every few seconds by a boom or a rattle of small arms, coming from three directions, the north, east and south, just hundreds of yards away.
    Andrew E. Kramer Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Hours later, militants attacked the nearby C.I.A. base with mortars and small arms.
    Adam Goldman, New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • Officials said Celiz died Thursday of wounds from enemy small arms fire.
    Fox News, 13 July 2018
  • The video depicts seven American forces and four Nigeriens fleeing on foot, under heavy mortar and small arms fire.
    Washington Post, 18 May 2018
  • But what to do about that cache of small arms and munitions, B-35 bombers and Black Hawk helicopters, and other military equipment left behind?
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023
  • To be fair, even light armor has value protecting soldiers against shrapnel and small arms fire while transiting to the frontline.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Initial shipments of small arms and short-range defensive weapons kept Russian troops from taking the capital.
    Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • The armored cab for the five crew protected against small arms, lower-energy artillery fragments, and mines smaller than 14 pounds.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
  • Soldiers at the Pskov airport tried to shoot down the drones with small arms, according to Russian independent media, before a team of 65 firefighters was called to quell the fires.
    Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023

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