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
• Also, a slew of small arms from Libya penetrated the black market in the 2010s, experts say.
  — Isabelle Chapman, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Some Hamas fighters took this to an extreme, killing several civilians on the Al-Rashid coastal highway using small arms and machine guns.
  — Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024