How to Use weaponry in a Sentence

weaponry

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The fierce resistance has taken a toll on Ukraine’s weaponry.
    — Eric Schmitt David Guttenfelder, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Once one of the world’s top 10 arms importers, Vietnam has long depended on Russian weaponry.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The sale is relatively minor in size and does not include weaponry.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The least difficult is his demand for more advanced U.S. weaponry.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The superhero, whose origins go back to 1940, is known for having wings and her mastery of archaic weaponry such as swords, spears and maces.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 12 July 2023
  • Europe at present cannot supply the amount of more advanced weaponry that Ukraine has said is essential to turning the tide against Russian forces.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Most of the weaponry Armenia has ordered so far is defensive.
    — Paul Iddon, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Basha used its full display of offensive weaponry from the opening kickoff and never looked back.
    — Azcentral Sports, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The result is a company that’s become more focused on weaponry.
    — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • About $175 million of the total will be in the form of weaponry to be provided from Pentagon stockpiles, the official said.
    — Samya Kullab, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Arranged on the table just inside Zdarsky’s front door was an impressive display of weaponry.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Battles are rarely fought with fists, but with military weaponry and skills that can be mastered equally by all genders.
    — Deborah Bonello, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The easy access to efficient lethal weaponry is certainly a major means.
    — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Their supply operations rival those of most NATO armies, and the larger cartels have the weaponry, the manpower, the money, and the will to defend what’s theirs.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023

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