How to Use heavy artillery in a Sentence

heavy artillery

noun
  • And that’s what the Warriors were able to hit with their heavy artillery.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024
  • The two light heavyweights came out swinging heavy artillery.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Marcus is a gambling addict who keeps heavy artillery in his trunk.
    — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Prayer mats lie next to heavy artillery; smoke billows from parked whips; backstabbers get cut first.
    — Pitchfork, 10 Dec. 2025
  • But this can be settled without resorting to such heavy artillery.
    — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2025
  • They were met with heavy artillery and mortar fire and bogged down after several hours of fighting.
    — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2023
  • Denmark has no heavy artillery, submarines or air-defense systems.
    — Max Colchester, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023
  • As heavy artillery rained from the sky, militants went door-to-door to find targets and shoot at unarmed civilians.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • For the first live performance of Utopia, Scott went big and unleashed his heavy artillery.
    — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The army, lacking effective ground forces, responded with heavy artillery and air strikes.
    — Maggie Michael, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2024
  • The sound of heavy artillery exploding is a constant background to life in the villages beyond.
    — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Its front lines are close together and barraged with heavy artillery, and rotations from the front line are infrequent.
    — Text By Ellen Barry, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The Ukraine war has been fought largely on the ground in the past two years, with troops often locked in back-and-forth battles with heavy artillery and drone support.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Popovich, 34, said his unit was caught in heavy artillery fire a few weeks ago that lasted for two hours, but Ukrainian forces were unable to counter.
    — Daryna Mayer, NBC News, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Yet, even in the face of heavy artillery and indiscriminate air strikes, under-armed rebels have consistently been able to hold on to large swaths of cities.
    — Michael Jackson, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2016
  • This month, heavy artillery bombardments from across the border in Russia announced the latest attack.
    — Andrew E. Kramer Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • Walz specialized in heavy artillery and had proficiency ribbons in sharpshooting and hand grenades.
    — George Fabe Russell, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Russia was using an advantage in heavy artillery to grind down Ukrainian positions, inching forward a few feet at a time.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Video shared by Pakistani security officials showed flashes of light in the night from firing along the border and the sound of heavy artillery.
    — Reuters, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The ship also hosts several heavy artillery pieces, including a cannon on the bow with different types of rounds to combat different threats.
    — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • In late June, amid heavy artillery fire and intense urban fighting, Russia took the major city of Sievierodonetsk.
    — Hope Hodge Seck, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
  • These tools are the heavy artillery, the sophisticated devices painstakingly crafted to protect us from crooks, demagogues, and would-be tyrants.
    — Kermit Roosevelt Iii, TIME, 31 May 2024
  • All that said, feels like a couple dozen guys from Kansas City with heavy artillery could overtake this idyllic hamlet and ruin it incredibly quickly.
    — Kyle Orland & Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2023
  • To advance, Ukraine’s military has engaged in cat-and-mouse efforts to find openings and weak spots where smaller units can slip in, hit targets and roll out, while heavy artillery pops off from farther away.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
  • Russia has held a massive firepower advantage throughout the entire war, thanks in large part to its deep Soviet-era stocks of heavy artillery ammunition.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 26 May 2026
  • Other robots can lay down anti-tank mines, transport tons of materials for infantry on the front lines, or provide cover from the air under heavy artillery to exfiltrate injured soldiers.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Residents in Gaza City said the fighting intensified overnight into Wednesday, with gunfire, heavy artillery and airstrikes.
    — Josef Federman, arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Thailand will release Cambodian prisoners and Cambodia will begin withdrawing heavy artillery as part of the first phase of the deal.
    — Chris Megerian, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The Russians bombard Ukrainian positions with heavy artillery from miles away and send small bands of soldiers to try to infiltrate Ukrainian trenches in the dark of night.
    — Tyler Hicks Marc Santora, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
  • At 370 feet long with 80 crew members, the ship has a helicopter landing pad and hangar, two rib boats in the belly of the vessel, and heavy artillery, including a cannon.
    — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 25 June 2026

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