How to Use howitzer in a Sentence

howitzer

noun
  • Clam-shell doors open the back, where the jeeps and howitzers would once have driven in.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Luis Gomez was the quarterback, tall and with an arm like a howitzer.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2021
  • That doesn't just mean the employment of the howitzer, but the gunnery as well.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Jan. 2019
  • Two brass howitzers had been carried off a ship to a prairie near Fort Nisqually.
    — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2018
  • And his four-beat kick into the song's B section had the force of a howitzer salute.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 24 Aug. 2021
  • This 200-ton howitzer artillery gun is too heavy to transport in one piece.
    — smithsonianmag.com, 2 May 2017
  • This 200-ton howitzer artillery gun is too heavy to transport in one piece.
    — smithsonianmag.com, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Daniel Aguilar joined the Army a year ago and trained to operate a howitzer.
    — Washington Post, 7 June 2019
  • Soldiers threw on body armor and helmets, raced to their howitzer and set about firing.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Once that was accomplished, a howitzer could be parked on top of much lighter vehicles.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2017
  • But why does the histamine howitzer sometimes get trained on harmless sesame seeds or soybeans?
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Shortly after midnight, a huge howitzer on base starts pounding out its heavy shells.
    — jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Some have howitzers for an arm; others can barely throw it 50 yards downfield.
    — Steven Ruiz, For The Win, 18 Apr. 2018
  • They are used in howitzer systems, which are towed large guns with long barrels that can fire at various angles.
    — Tara Copp, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Three months later, the howitzers had been repaired and shipped to the staging center in Poland.
    — Lara Jakes, New York Times, 19 June 2023
  • The tennis world needs to see more of this version of the 6 foot 6 inch Hamburg howitzer.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • By then, his squad had already fired some 3,000 shells, all of them captured, through the howitzer.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Her rhetorical howitzer across the stage left even the moderators stumped on whom to turn to for a response.
    — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The strength of a laser isn't expressed in pounds like an aircraft bomb, or the diameter of a howitzer barrel.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2016
  • From time to time, a howitzer fires and the shell can be heard shrieking on its arc overhead before exploding on the other side.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Ukraine, for example, has been sent at least 17 different kinds of howitzers, not all of which use the same type of shell.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The Pentagon shipping more than half the howitzer long-range artillery guns pledged to Ukraine.
    — ABC News, 1 May 2022
  • At present, knocking out a howitzer with a small drone requires the skill of the elite pilots of Birds of Magyar.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The howitzer can fire roughly 40 kilometers (about 25 miles).
    — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • In the morning, Laurens and another soldier tried to set up the howitzer, but the British struck first.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2020
  • The most common howitzer provided to Ukraine, the M-777, can be towed by truck.
    — Patrick Galey, NBC News, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Hanwha has shipped howitzers to Egypt and ammunition to the UK.
    — Eli Joseph, Fortune Asia, 6 June 2024
  • As a result, Ukraine has begun using the 105 mm howitzer, which has a smaller payload and shorter range.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Wayne Rooney's howitzer beyond the sprawling David Seaman in 2002 is one of those.
    — SI.com, 7 July 2019
  • Abdul Jalal Jalal yelled, after a 122-millimeter howitzer shell hit a mud compound and a cloud of smoke rose.
    — Sharif Hassan, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2018

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