How to Use matériel in a Sentence

matériel

noun
  • The mountains of materiel may not reach storm survivors for days.
    — Laura Blewitt, Bloomberg.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Konashenkov said the weapons and materiel were to go to Ukrainian troops in the Donbas.
    — Tribune News Service, al, 21 May 2022
  • But in the hands of Senate Democrats, this is one more bit of materiel flung at the other side.
    — Abigail Shrier, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
  • China would be willing to pay a steeper price for everything from medicine to war materiel.
    — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Dealerships had no new cars to sell for four years as factories focused on weapons and war materiel.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Dealerships had no new cars to sell for four years as factories focused on weapons and war materiel.
    — Josh Boak, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Russia has more manpower and materiel than its opponent but isn’t putting them to good use.
    — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2023
  • But better training would not diminish Kyiv’s need for materiel.
    — Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The long fight for Bakhmut has been block-by-block, house-by-house savagery grinding up men, materiel and masonry.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Andrii had zoomed in on images of the Russian materiel when Olha’s text came through.
    — Whitney Leaming, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Lviv has also emerged as a supply hub for weapons and materiel that the West has ferried into Ukraine.
    — Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
  • But after 40 years of cash and materiel shortages, the regime has learned how to wage imperialism on the cheap.
    — Reuel Marc Gerecht, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Most wars have been wars of attrition, settled by which side had more staying power through the ability to apply men and materiel.
    — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
  • This is not achievable, given the materiel available to Ukraine or the time that its military needs to properly train its troops.
    — Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Churchill had to build public support for his decision to send war materiel to Russia when British troops still faced shortages.
    — Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The company made cases for Howitzer shells and other materiel for the nation’s defense.
    — Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Abu Anwar, a 30-year-old official with the new government, came with a team of rebels to inspect the site for materiel.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The Pentagon has positioned stocks of materiel in strategic locations around the world.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Both sides had heavily reinforced the front lines with thousands of new forces and increasingly advanced materiel.
    — Liam Karr, Time, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The data show that based on the wide range of items ordered, the program acts like a sort of big-box store for materiel that police departments might want but can’t always afford.
    — Mike Carter, The Seattle Times, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Lyman is but a small corner of what experts say will be an epic, decades-long task of clearing Ukraine of land mines and other unexploded war materiel.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The war has consumed so much Russian manpower and materiel that Moscow will need years to rebuild its military.
    — Michael Kimmage and Hanna Notte, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2023
  • There are six cargo elevators for moving materiel and supplies from the cargo holds, as well as two aircraft elevators.
    — Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • The military said Hamas fighters there and elsewhere had fled before Israeli troops arrived and taken materiel with them.
    — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Russia’s economy has been struggling and its battlefield progress has ground to a halt, while Ukraine faces a manpower and materiel shortage.
    — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 16 June 2026
  • The war in Ukraine has jacked the global arms trade, fueling a new appetite for materiel not just in Moscow and Kyiv but also around the world.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • But while some of the weapons and materiel are advanced, much of it also remains less sophisticated than the weapons in Russia's arsenal.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Besides the materiel provided to Ukraine, Taiwan too is waiting on its $19 billion in weapons orders.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2023
  • The rising tensions over the plant come as Western support for Ukraine holds firm and Russia is struggling to replace losses of troops and materiel.
    — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
  • And Borrell’s announcement — which came in response to a question about how the materiel was going to get into Ukraine, not in his prepared remarks — was a surprise.
    — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2022

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