How to Use weaponry in a Sentence

weaponry

noun
  • The army has developed some new high-tech weaponry.
  • Gangs are on the loose, guns are everywhere – heavy weaponry.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
  • With guns, swords, lasers, jetpacks, and all manner of sci-fi weaponry.
    George Yang, Space.com, 15 June 2026
  • A lot of us want to stop the limitless flow of weaponry across this country.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The men were young and in good shape and their bones reveal impacts from close and long-range weaponry.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Oct. 2019
  • There was enough weaponry on both sides to classify the event as a mini-gun show.
    Dallas News, 30 July 2020
  • The sounds of heavy weaponry could be heard in several other videos.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • His desk is covered with a wide range of modern weaponry next to photos of his children.
    Thomas Mutch, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2022
  • David was not so interested in the tech, the calibers or the weaponry.
    Jeff Leen, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Today, the enmity is just as intense, but the weaponry is more lethal.
    Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The Javelin is the state-of-the-art in portable anti-tank weaponry.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • But in the last three years, much of the new equipment and weaponry has already been going to Ukraine.
    Joshua Keating, Vox, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The fierce resistance has taken a toll on Ukraine’s weaponry.
    Eric Schmitt David Guttenfelder, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • Secondary weaponry appears to have comprised at least four machine guns.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But now you very well may be asked to provide more weaponry to Israel to defend itself.
    CBS News, 22 June 2025
  • Torpedoes are quite old and in many ways quite simple compared with more modern weaponry.
    James Dwyer, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The sale would be the largest and most significant sale of weaponry to Taiwan in decades.
    Fortune, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Western nations have promised systems that can shoot down drones but much of that weaponry has yet to arrive and could be months away.
    Sabra Ayres, Hanna Arhirova and Inna Varenytsia, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2022
  • That weaponry has been sent to Ukraine’s military to help it in its fight against Russia.
    Greg Norman, Fox News, 4 May 2022
  • In a clash of big pictures, the CBN’s heavy weaponry will likely come out on top.
    Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 24 Aug. 2021
  • These tanks featured lighter armor and weaponry and had a greater operational range.
    Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026
  • Cleveland will be missing much of its weaponry and DPJ has stepped up big time the last two games.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Many of the systems used to deploy such weaponry are small and easily transportable, so tracking them down is not easy.
    Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Kyiv had long clamored for permission to use long-range Western weaponry far across the border.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Kyiv had long clamored for permission to use long-range Western weaponry far across the border.
    Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Willis also needs to spend the next month developing better chemistry with his weaponry.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 12 June 2026
  • There was a table displaying weaponry, and propped at the edge of the nearby pond, there was a target in the shape of a human body.
    Lauren Groff, Harper's magazine, 1 Mar. 2020
  • But does Europe have enough economic weaponry to force the White House to think again?
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • It is bound by law to provide the island with the means to defend itself and supplies it with defensive weaponry.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Much of Hezbollah's weaponry is believed to come from Iran through Syria.
    Democrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 6 Oct. 2024

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