How to Use weaponry in a Sentence

weaponry

noun
  • The army has developed some new high-tech weaponry.
  • How else can the E.U. raise money for the war and weaponry?
    Monika Pronczuk, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The Javelin is the state-of-the-art in portable anti-tank weaponry.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • France has been slow to supply heavy weaponry to Ukraine.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • Houthi rebels there have for months choked the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden with unmanned weaponry, both in the sky and on the water.
    Colin Demarest, Axios, 19 July 2024
  • A lot of us want to stop the limitless flow of weaponry across this country.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • That’s putting stress on the makers of modern weaponry.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 3 Jan. 2023
  • But while the United States taught Ukraine how to use the weaponry, the Russians dug in and prepared for the coming fight.
    Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The Wa possess high-tech weaponry: artillery, drones, and missiles that can knock jets out of the sky.
    Patrick Winn, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Gangs are on the loose, guns are everywhere – heavy weaponry.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The sounds of heavy weaponry could be heard in several other videos.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Kay, Rain, Andy, and Tyler break out the weaponry, prepared to face the monsters together.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 July 2024
  • That weaponry has been sent to Ukraine’s military to help it in its fight against Russia.
    Greg Norman, Fox News, 4 May 2022
  • The fierce resistance has taken a toll on Ukraine’s weaponry.
    Eric Schmitt David Guttenfelder, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • And the Saudis are one of the leading importers (untold billions) of U.S. weaponry.
    Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2022
  • But only recently has Ukraine had the weaponry that can target the likes of Sevastopol.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Still, Ukraine, reliant on the West for weaponry and funding, faces short-term pressures that Russia does not.
    Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Western nations have promised systems that can shoot down drones but much of that weaponry has yet to arrive and could be months away.
    Sabra Ayres, Hanna Arhirova and Inna Varenytsia, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The last speaker was a technologist—who happened to grow up in Los Alamos, by the way—who talked about the inevitable growth of the use of AI in weaponry.
    WIRED, 20 June 2023
  • Their heaviest weaponry is a pair of mortars, the soldier claimed.
    David Axe, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Ukraine is readying another military push to roll back Russian forces with the help of weaponry that has poured in from the West.
    John Leicester, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • As more dangerous weaponry and tactics are deployed, the risks of a wider conflict grow.
    John Hudson, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The narrow passageways open up to larger rooms, which are used to store weaponry and house Hamas leaders.
    Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has, sadly, brought the specter of nuclear weaponry to the fore once again.
    WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Ukraine made few concrete gains on the ground last year even with massive amounts of Western support and advanced weaponry.
    Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2024
  • All Ukraine needs, Anton said, is for the world to supply the weaponry to push Russian forces back across the border, and soldiers like him will supply the spirit.
    Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
  • Countries have largely held back on supplying state-of-the-art weaponry to avoid having to train Ukrainian forces to use it.
    Alberto Nardelli, Bloomberg.com, 9 Apr. 2022
  • The war is far from over and the lack of heavy weaponry is still operationally critical.
    James Longman, ABC News, 23 May 2024
  • Speakers called for a ceasefire and an end to U.S. financial support for weaponry in the Middle East.
    Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The Fed, however, was fighting the last war, deploying outdated weaponry.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024

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