How to Use matériel in a Sentence

matériel

noun
  • There is a limit to the money and materiel the U.S. can send to Ukraine.
    Michael Kimmage, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Konashenkov said the weapons and materiel were to go to Ukrainian troops in the Donbas.
    Tribune News Service, al, 21 May 2022
  • But in the hands of Senate Democrats, this is one more bit of materiel flung at the other side.
    Abigail Shrier, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
  • The mountains of materiel may not reach storm survivors for days.
    Laura Blewitt, Bloomberg.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Lviv has also emerged as a supply hub for weapons and materiel that the West has ferried into Ukraine.
    Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Andrii had zoomed in on images of the Russian materiel when Olha’s text came through.
    Whitney Leaming, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The long fight for Bakhmut has been block-by-block, house-by-house savagery grinding up men, materiel and masonry.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Abu Anwar, a 30-year-old official with the new government, came with a team of rebels to inspect the site for materiel.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Abu Anwar, a 30-year-old official with the new government, came with a team of rebels to inspect the site for materiel.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The war in Ukraine has jacked the global arms trade, fueling a new appetite for materiel not just in Moscow and Kyiv but also around the world.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • But after 40 years of cash and materiel shortages, the regime has learned how to wage imperialism on the cheap.
    Reuel Marc Gerecht, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Just moving a few score men and their materiel to another part of the Middle East: Saudi Arabia.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 10 Oct. 2019
  • China would be willing to pay a steeper price for everything from medicine to war materiel.
    Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Dealerships had no new cars to sell for four years as factories focused on weapons and war materiel.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Dealerships had no new cars to sell for four years as factories focused on weapons and war materiel.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Dealerships had no new cars to sell for four years as factories focused on weapons and war materiel.
    Josh Boak, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Dealerships had no new cars to sell for four years as factories focused on weapons and war materiel.
    Josh Boak, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Dealerships had no new cars to sell for four years as factories focused on weapons and war materiel.
    Josh Boak, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Dealerships had no new cars to sell for four years as factories focused on weapons and war materiel.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Dealerships had no new cars to sell for four years as factories focused on weapons and war materiel.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 16 Nov. 2021
  • This is not achievable, given the materiel available to Ukraine or the time that its military needs to properly train its troops.
    Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Russia has more manpower and materiel than its opponent but isn’t putting them to good use.
    Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2023
  • The rising tensions over the plant come as Western support for Ukraine holds firm and Russia is struggling to replace losses of troops and materiel.
    Ian Lovett, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Churchill had to build public support for his decision to send war materiel to Russia when British troops still faced shortages.
    Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The data show that based on the wide range of items ordered, the program acts like a sort of big-box store for materiel that police departments might want but can’t always afford.
    Mike Carter, The Seattle Times, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Great powers such as the U.S. must maintain domestic sources of supply for vital war materiel, such as steel and jet aircraft.
    John Steele Gordon, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
  • Father Andrew, the youthful priest, sometimes changed out of his black cassock into street clothes and drove military materiel some 700 miles across Ukraine, to the front.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The company made cases for Howitzer shells and other materiel for the nation’s defense.
    Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2022
  • All that had to be done was to get Ukraine to back off its unrealistic demands for a return of all its territory, at which point Putin would seize the chance to buy time to repair his economy and replenish his troops and materiel.
    Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Several former Chinese fighters have described harsh conditions and subpar materiel at the front.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Apr. 2025

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