How to Use arsenal in a Sentence

arsenal

noun
  • Doctors have a broad arsenal of medicines to choose from.
  • The city is home to a federal arsenal.
  • And from the start, methadone was one of the biggest weapons in his arsenal.
    Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Goon With the Spoon, a cookbook full of meals out of 40’s own arsenal.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2023
  • With the right pair of tights in your arsenal, gripes like tears and rolling waistbands will be things of the past.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Add the eye-catching flute to your arsenal to add flair to events all year.
    Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Add the eye-catching flute to your arsenal to add flair to events all year.
    Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 May 2024
  • Two pieces that the losing added to the team’s arsenal of assets.
    oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2022
  • South Korea would need to quit the NPT to build its own arsenal.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Forward guidance has been part of the Fed’s arsenal for most of the past two decades.
    Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 12 June 2022
  • The sizable garage on the port side can hold a full arsenal of water toys, too.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2023
  • At the very least, the primary arsenal of weapons is fun.
    Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Slow starts are nothing new for the defense, but for a third straight week, the Chiefs have yet to have the unit's full arsenal on the field.
    Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Jalen Hurts has a lot of his arsenal still and the defense is pretty well stocked too.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Still, though, there are a few items that every PC gamer will want to add to their arsenal.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 Dec. 2021
  • The Elect have a weapon in their arsenal that lends them outsize power.
    Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2021
  • But that’s not the only sun-safety tip that should be in your arsenal.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 6 May 2022
  • Public health agencies are quick to point out that at-home tests are a key weapon in the arsenal against Covid.
    Kathleen McLaughlin, STAT, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The best makeup brush sets take the guesswork out of building out your arsenal of tools.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Rounding out the Guardians’ arsenal is the group huddle.
    Brittany Vincent, BGR, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Gage is a bit of a one-trick pony to a degree with regards to his pitching arsenal.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Now, the time had come to roll out its biggest signing, the one star in its arsenal in a league of his own: David Beckham.
    Tariq Panja, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
  • With these three in his arsenal, your dude can whip up anything.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 2 Oct. 2024
  • For people who love to eat, the freezer has become not a crutch but an arsenal of taste.
    Meghan McCarron, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2025
  • It’s where the empire grew much of its food, built and kept many of its weapons, and stored a chunk of its nuclear arsenal.
    Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Some clubs didn’t view him as a first-rounder in ‘22 due to his limited arsenal and high risk.
    Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The Oak Forest Fire Department has a new weapon in its arsenal to fight fires: a new fire truck.
    Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2025
  • Trump brags that the United States has the strongest nuclear arsenal in the world.
    Greg Bluestein, ajc, 27 Mar. 2022
  • China has prepared to target those U.S. bases and stretched American supply lines by amassing an arsenal of long-range missiles.
    Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • These microscopic killers already claim millions of lives each year worldwide, and the world’s arsenal of effective antibiotics is dwindling.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Aug. 2025

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