Thesaurus results for ARTILLERY

artillery

noun

är-ˈti-lə-rē

Definition of artillery

as in guns

large firearms (as cannons or rockets) during the brutal artillery attack families hid in their cellars

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Recent Examples of artillery According to the database, Germany also financed a transfer of 12 PzH-2000 155mm artillery guns from Qatar that were delivered in 2024 and 2025. — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 The factory’s signature device, meant to precisely stretch the steel for the artillery shells, instead often cracked it beyond repair. — Jesse Coburn, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2026 Three more people, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed by Russian drones and artillery in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, local authorities said. — CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026 North Korea has supplied Russia with millions of artillery and mortar rounds, ballistic ⁠missiles, long-range artillery and multiple-launch rocket systems, according to Ukrainian and independent assessments. — Reuters, NBC news, 9 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for artillery

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Multiple people fired guns into a home in the shooting, Krasner said.

— Joe Brandt, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
The law imposed a $200 tax on the manufacture and transfer of these guns and required owners to register those weapons.

— Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 17 Aug. 2026

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Such weapons are proving increasingly difficult for Kyiv to shoot down, with supplies of US Patriot interceptors – one of the few systems capable of taking down ballistic missiles pretty much exhausted.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Some still laden with weapons, the ships belonged to Nazi Germany's Black Sea fleet that was deliberately sunk near the end of the war as German troops retreated from Romania and Soviet forces advanced deeper into Europe.

— CBS News, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

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