How to Use armory in a Sentence

armory

noun
  • The evening ends with ice cream and awards back inside the armory.
    — Mary Schneidau Sullivan, Laurel Leader, 7 June 2018
  • Just the gas of driving to the armory and back twice would take a bite out of that.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The big serve and punch might work on a good night, but the rallies test out all the armory.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • There, like a knight in a castle armory, you will be agog at the choices.
    — Air Mail, 9 May 2026
  • In the back and upstairs was an armory with more than 700 firearms.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 28 May 2021
  • The men busted into the prison armory, stole weapons and stormed out of the unit in a prison truck.
    — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 27 June 2018
  • The team had to practice on a small concrete floor in the local armory.
    — Matthew Vantryon, Indianapolis Star, 24 Apr. 2020
  • But the lunches, the enjoyment, the fun, were all part of his armory.
    — Henry Porter, The Hive, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Fuller has said the city can buy the armory for $1 from the state if the building is used for housing.
    — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Yes, there is a huge four seasons firework armory attached to the restaurant.
    — kansascity, 13 Dec. 2017
  • But a new class of variant-proof treatments could help restock the country’s armory.
    — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Our cottage’s private hot tub occupied a room at the base of the tower that once held the armory.
    — Sharon Boorstin, latimes.com, 30 June 2019
  • Over the next few days, the guard will begin hosting 20 new testing sites at armories across the state.
    — Tony Cook, Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2020
  • But the ward built this building to look like a National Guard armory.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
  • The medical unit lies beyond the armory and is painted green and yellow.
    — Katanga Johnson, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The police have replaced the officer in charge of the armory, but so far no arrests have been made in the theft.
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2018
  • There's a reason these have been made in people's backyards instead of coming from an armory.
    — Charlottegraham-McLay The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2025
  • This castle looks like that one former armory building in Crown Heights.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 2 July 2024
  • It will be staged inside an armory in Brooklyn with about 12 cameras.
    — Mark Kennedy, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • But for years, being a wrestler in Richmond meant going out of town to do small shows held in high school gyms or an armory.
    — Karri Peifer, Axios, 2 Apr. 2025
  • New legendary loot is being added, along with a welcome back bonus, and the ability to save and swap builds in the armory.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Anti-war activists attacked an armory.
    — Stacey Barchenger, AZCentral.com, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Since Hocus Pocus 2, the armory has been used in another film shoot.
    — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The Cat’s Cradle has training spaces, dorms, an armory, and quite a few secret rooms.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 2 July 2020
  • The structure on the Upper East Side was designed to look like the armory that was once on its site.
    — Jazmine Hughes, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The group has been working on ways to revitalize Pikesville and has high hopes for the armory property.
    — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • After being advised by Nichols not to go to the armory, the group remained for a while in a meeting room at the hotel.
    — The Courier-Journal, 14 May 2018
  • Although the group took the armory with little resistance, troops under the command of then-Lt.
    — Virginia Linn, Philly.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The Army said on Thursday that Guard members' weapons would remain in the armory to use if needed.
    — Brian Mann, NPR, 17 Aug. 2025
  • What all this boils down to is that even a laser weapon that's already shooting down hostile drones is streets away from one that's officially part of the armory.
    — New Atlas, 17 Jan. 2026

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