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
  • 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 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
  • Cluster munitions are weapons that break apart and spread smaller bomblets over a large area.
    — Riley Rogerson, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • More than anything, the grinding Bakhmut combat ate up troops and munitions at an alarming rate for both sides.
    — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • Weapons experts told The Times that the vehicles had each been struck by small, precise munitions, most likely fired from a drone.
    — Aric Toler, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The new aid package, the 14th such package from Helsinki so far, also contains heavy weapons and munitions.
    — Karl Ritter, ajc, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Sometimes the State Department objected, as in the case of the cluster munitions.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Last week the Senate passed a foreign-aid bill including over $60 billion in weapons and munitions to be made in the U.S. and donated to Ukraine.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Prigozhin clapped back the next morning by posting the picture of the dead soldiers and a request for munitions address to Gerasimov dated Feb. 17.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
  • The vast majority of those munitions have come from Army stockpiles due to the nature of the conventional land war in Ukraine.
    — CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The move to secure further munitions is a vital one but not one that experts seem to think will yield the benefits Putin requires.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The slats might help mitigate strikes by drones and handheld anti-tank weapons, but heavier munitions should blast right through.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Human Rights Watch says both Moscow and Kyiv have used cluster munitions.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 16 July 2023
  • If Ukraine can maintain a steady flow of munitions and supplies, its gritty troops can continue to fight.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Last year, Ukraine largely fought the war with munitions produced before the start of Russia’s invasion.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • This was a war fought not only with munitions, but with information—both real and fake.
    — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
  • This munition weighs 21 ounces and produces a powerful blast, but no shrapnel.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
  • The drone is able to carry an array of payloads including munitions.
    — Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The Israeli air strikes aimed at Hamas commanders and fighters, tunnels and munitions supplies, were killing civilians, dozens at a time.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Hypersonic missiles are long-range munitions capable of reaching speeds of at least Mach 5 — five times the speed of sound, or more than a mile a second.
    — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • At 90 meters, that same munition could destroy a building.
    — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023

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