How to Use weapon in a Sentence

weapon

1 of 2 noun
  • The pitcher's slider is his most effective weapon.
  • The mayor's campaign unleashed its secret weapon.
  • Our weapons of choice will be words.
    Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Let those with weapons lay them down.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 5 Apr. 2026
  • No weapon was found at the scene.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 27 May 2026
  • Let those who have weapons lay them down!
    Jane Tyska, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Love would give them an all-around weapon.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The true heart of the weapon, the thing that gives it life.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Police found a box for the weapon in his truck.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • But drones were not his only weapons against these two.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The weapon was cleared, and the scene declared safe.
    Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • No weapons, firearms, or fireworks.
    Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 17 June 2026
  • Deputies did not find a weapon, Linhardt added.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
  • One of my secret weapons for staying on top of it all?
    Averi Baudler, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • He is not seen wielding a weapon in bystander video.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 25 Jan. 2026
  • This is when at least one officer fired their weapon.
    Brandon Downs, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Williams declined to say what type of weapon the suspect had.
    Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The chatbot has since been fixed and no longer provides weapon recipes.
    Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • My only weapon is, just stay funny.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
  • No live nuclear weapons are used.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025
  • There will be weapons, sanctions, and pushback.
    Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The suspect was armed but did not pull his weapon at first, police sources said.
    Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The book suggests mass shootings stoked fears of weapons bans that led to greater gun sales.
    Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The drug charges each are a 20-year felony; the weapons charges each are a two-year felony.
    Paula Wethington, CBS News, 23 June 2026
  • Dianne Wiest should get to hold weapons more often.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
  • These are all weapons that are used to humiliate the artist.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 19 May 2026
  • As both sides expand their use of these weapons, glide bombs are poised to shape the next phase of the war.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Kim gives them an interesting weapon off the bench with his speed.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Iran denies seeking such weapons.
    Reuters, NBC news, 15 Feb. 2026

weapon

2 of 2 verb
  • The ghost can't speak, and can only confirm whether a player has guessed the right person, place, or weapon with a knock.
    WIRED, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The deputy had her pepper spray, Taser and weapon on her as Ruffin escaped and was able to fire three shots at him.
    Katherine Itoh, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Another officer had a taser ready, while the third officer had no taser or weapon out, Fields added.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Three other males were charged with felony murder, as party to a crime, in addition to weapon and carjacking charges as well.
    Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 29 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nor would second-tier nuclear powers need to match China, Russia, and the United States weapon for weapon.
    Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr., Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The products therefore become a good talking point for the sales associates and weapon to help fight the conversion challenge, according to Vuchot.
    Jennifer Weil, WWD, 15 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • This interoperability unifies the fragmented gaming ecosystem, enabling a character or weapon to move seamlessly from one game.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Mohammed eventually pleaded to weapon possession and was sentenced to five years probation in November 2020, authorities said.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 18 May 2024
  • Simultaneously, Israeli airstrikes destroyed multiple military installations, including fighter jets and weapon caches across Syria.
    Hadeel Al-Shalchi, NPR, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The former Rocky Flats weapons plant, which produced plutonium triggers for nuclear bombs, drew thousands of protesters for years to the site north of Denver, including such prominent activists as Daniel Ellsberg and Beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
    Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025

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