How to Use gunnery in a Sentence

gunnery

noun
  • As luck would have it, Fort Moore’s tankers were going through their own gunnery exercises at the end of the year.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Athens sent its own warships in, and Ankara has responded by staging live-fire gunnery exercises in the area this week.
    — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2020
  • UAVs were also long used as targets for gunnery and missile-firing practice and testing.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
  • At just 19, he was commissioned as a gunnery officer and shipped off to the Pacific Theater.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Instead, France’s airborne troops were more interested in sound tactics and precision gunnery than the pure majesty of perilously setting off the weapon on the open road.
    — Cory Graff, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2020
  • At Pile’s request, British gunnery instructors had been indoctrinated with the basics of the device.
    — Jamie Holmes, Wired, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Eberle was flying gunnery exercises in a single-seater fighter plane with B-29 bombers from Randolph.
    — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Sober, almost austere, courageous under fire but famously reluctant to disclose his thinking, the admiral was a master of gunnery, signaling and the handling of ships under sail.
    — Nick Bunker, Washington Post, 22 May 2026
  • Her design emphasized improved armor distribution and gunnery control over earlier classes.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Typically, there will be a display tent with armor that onlookers can try on, a fiber arts display tent with medieval children’s clothing, a gunnery display tent, and a kitchen tent, in addition to the tents the performers sleep in, Caton said.
    — Bailey Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2022
  • There, the Navy and Marine Corps train in all aspects of warfare, including gunnery, bombardment, air defense, and anti-sub and electronic warfare, according to the military.
    — Julia Marnin, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Currently used as aerial targets, these expendable drones enable naval units to conduct more frequent and realistic gunnery and missile defense training at reduced cost, improving readiness without the need for recovery operations.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The Indiana Air National Guard currently uses about 1,000 acres adjacent to the refuge for aerial gunnery exercises.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2026
  • According to Pyongyang's Rodong Sinmun news site, the competition consisted of tank crews competing in a variety of events, including driving, gunnery, and navigating obstacles.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2017
  • The sprawling property just north of the Ohio River was formerly known as Jefferson Proving Grounds, and was used as an air-to-ground gunnery range during World War II and for several decades afterward.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2026
  • The relevant, realistic training program includes gunnery, missile, anti-submarine and air defense exercises, as well as amphibious, counter-piracy, mine clearance operations, explosive ordnance disposal and diving and salvage operations.
    — Hartford Courant, 25 July 2022

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