artillery pieces

plural noun

: large guns that shoot over long distances

Examples of artillery pieces in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Since early in the war, analysts have attempted to work out at what point one side or the other would run out of vital supplies—armored vehicles, artillery pieces, shells, missiles, air defenses, and so on. —Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2025

Fortunately for the Ukrainians, the Kramatorsk factory is now one of the biggest howitzer-makers in the world, churning out new artillery pieces at a rate of dozens per month. —David Axe, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025

Rocket Trucks are highly mobile artillery pieces that can blanket an entire area with fire, though with very low accuracy. —Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025

Russian artillery pieces were rarely unattended or alone. —C.j. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024

Their compilations show the destruction of numerous artillery pieces, in one case knocking out 22 Russian howitzers in a week. —David Hambling, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024

Rhymes for artillery pieces

• caprices
• decreases
• eyepieces
• increases
• mouthpieces
• polices
• releases
• timepieces
• varices
• workpieces
• ceases
• creases