How to Use weaponry in a Sentence
weaponry
noun- The army has developed some new high-tech weaponry.
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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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