Examples of weapon in a Sentence
Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024
Iran supports the Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad, and Israel says Tehran uses Syrian territory to ship missiles and other weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
—Peter Kenyon, NPR, 12 Apr. 2024
Police said after the main training drills on April 3, when officers unloaded their weapons to prepare them for cleaning, a pistol accidentally discharged into the ground.
—Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
The Quds Force is Iran’s unconventional warfare wing that has supported Tehran’s proxies and regional partners with money, weapons and equipment for decades.
—Javed Ali, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2024
Hiroto has killed all but one of the Turtles, as well as their mentor, Splinter; the remaining Turtle seeks revenge by wielding all four of their signature weapons.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 11 Apr. 2024
The Biden administration has approved the broadest expansion of federal background checks in decades in an attempt to regulate a fast-growing shadow market of weapons sold online that has contributed to gun violence.
—Erica L. Green, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
From 1982 to 1984 Postol served as the assistant for weapons technology to the chief of naval operations.
—Annie Jacobsen, TIME, 11 Apr. 2024
Both are eyeing regional threats from North Korea’s weapons testing and burgeoning relations with Russia to China’s aggression in the South China Sea and toward Taiwan.
—Junko Ogura, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
Katherine Itoh, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2024
And the Polish prime minister announced a halt to weapon exports to Ukraine.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
As a result, Russia has since been unable to send fighter jets or other aircraft over vast stretches of the country that weapons shipments traverse.
—Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
Fact check: Image shows aftermath of SpaceX launch, not weapon starting Hawaii fires
The U.S. has provided more than just military assistance as well.
—Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
Unlike a pocket knife or weapon someone might regularly carry, taking a knife from home would require advanced planning, prosecutors say.
—Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2023
Another officer had a taser ready, while the third officer had no taser or weapon out, Fields added.
—Alaa Elassar, CNN, 30 Sep. 2020
Recent reports, though, have claimed rubber bullets are still being used, and tracking which weapons individual police departments use is difficult.
—David Z. Morris, Fortune, 4 June 2020
Each crime fit the same modus operandi including the suspect’s build and weapon description, the report said.
—John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018
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Word History
Noun
Middle English wepen, from Old English wǣpen; akin to Old High German wāffan weapon, Old Norse vāpn
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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