How to Use armament in a Sentence

armament

noun
  • The country's armament will take years.
  • The armaments each have a strength and weakness against certain blades.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • But when pols fund wars for partisan reward, armaments don’t come cheap.
    — John Baer, Philly.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The city turned out the soldiers, sailors and armaments that would help defeat fascism and, this time, to save the world.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2023
  • If armaments were found, the sub crew could sink the ship, after allowing its merchant crew to board lifeboats.
    — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2018
  • At the aid site, his friends say Obeid was killed by armaments dropped by an Israeli quadcopter.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
  • At present, drone armament consists mainly of explosive warheads or bombs, with a few net guns.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Parts of the system will be made in Poland, a boost for the country’s armaments industry.
    — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2018
  • This is a time when all the world is split into two vast, increasingly hostile armed camps—a time of a great armaments race.
    — Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Out of embargo and ready to bust foam darts, this year’s hottest Nerf armament, the Stampede!
    — John Baichtal, WIRED, 16 July 2010
  • The rebellion’s first target was a coastal fort, where Tacky’s forces shot a sentinel and seized a store of armaments.
    — Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Russia must decide whether to defend its refineries or its armaments plants.
    — Tatiana Mitrova, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Other armaments would include a rail gun, five-inch conventional guns, and a range of lasers and smaller guns.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Hartford Courant So much more money is spent on war and armaments compared to life-saving food aid.
    — William Lambers, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2025
  • There are no details yet on what armaments the Syrian Kurds will receive.
    — Fox News, 30 May 2017
  • Who controlled the armaments in the Tower of London?
    — Catherine Nicholson, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The frigate can carry some of the most modern armaments in Russia’s arsenal.
    — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 12 June 2024
  • Its armament allows the Songar to engage targets or put down suppressive fire in the event of an ambush.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • The ground squirrels never give up trying to get through the fence, digging test holes and looking for weaknesses in the armaments.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
  • These are specific to each armament, and if a gun is lost, broken beyond repair, or sold, so is everything strapped to it.
    — Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The West has long been home to the most capable and sophisticated armaments in the world.
    — Thomas G. Mahnken, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2024
  • Experts say the respite allowed the cartels to get stronger, both in terms of organization and armament.
    — Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2023
  • All three of the vehicles the Jaguar replaces are more than thirty years old with obsolete armament.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2018
  • The rocket armament may serve a similar purpose.
    — David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The ship – which had no armament or gun – would navigate a narrow channel through a huge minefield and dodge air attacks on its voyage south.
    — Gawon Bae, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Though porcupines have quills and some lizards lash their tails when threatened, neither animal has the bony armaments seen millions of years ago.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Then the system opens the missile doors under the fuselage and launches the armament at the exact instant when a kill is assured.
    — Thomas E. Stimson, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2021
  • End of carousel The Strip is becoming a toxic waste pit of armaments and debris, experts warn.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
  • In the course of the war, a lot of factories had been reoriented to produce armaments, which meant consumer goods were in short supply.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The speed and armament are what make the Abrams a formidable offensive weapon platform.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2022

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