How to Use munition in a Sentence

munition

noun
  • That means the munition has to be large.
    — Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Body parts and munitions rained down on.
    — Christopher Derose, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • Police fired both lethal and non-lethal munitions at the man.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 19 July 2019
  • Ukraine has warned its stocks of those munitions are running low.
    — Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Its dams and plants churned out vast amounts of munitions to help the war effort.
    — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
  • When the munitions were fired, the crowd dispersed.
    — Charlotte Observer, 27 Mar. 2026
  • This is deep water with a munitions dump at the bottom of it.
    — Alex Morales, Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
  • That strike marked the munition’s first combat use.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Many of the munitions used by both groups are believed to come from Tehran.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
  • These munitions were thought to be too toxic for marine life.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Their schooling had been canceled, and many were put to work in munitions plants.
    — Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Cluster munitions are weapons that break apart and spread smaller bomblets over a large area.
    — Riley Rogerson, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
  • The munitions, both about 40 mm, were dropped off in a grocery bag.
    — Rhiannon Saegert, Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2025
  • This was about a 40 foot boat that had just been hit with a massive piece of munitions.
    — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
  • This was about a 40-foot boat that had just been hit with a massive piece of munitions.
    — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Those who were still alive climbed or were carried into the third car, which was struck by the third munition.
    — Karl Vick, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Much of the gap is accounted for by munitions that have been used and need to be replaced.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Those munitions can also remain on fields and across towns long after the war.
    — Rachel Scully, The Hill, 24 Nov. 2024
  • The crew is also armed with cluster munitions that scatter mines on the ground.
    — John Hudson and Anastacia Galouchka, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Behind just a single block of homes, eight bomblets from a cluster munition lay in a field.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Something – a large munition blew up right here and clearly sprayed this car with shrapnel.
    — NBC News, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Ukrainians are highly aware of the threat posed by cluster munitions.
    — John Hudson and Anastacia Galouchka, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Israel does not have the munition or the bomber needed to deliver it.
    — Rob Gillies, Fortune, 17 June 2025
  • Weapons and warfare experts blame the extensive use of such heavy munitions for the huge death toll.
    — Allegra Goodwin, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Less lethal munitions can include rubber bullets and bean bags.
    — ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • But those are just the higher-risk, shallower sunken munitions.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Some are giving Russia the means to prolong the war—men and munitions.
    — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Israel says Iran may be rationing munitions gearing up for a long war.
    — Npr Staff, NPR, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The munition exploded, killing his father and wounding the boy in the head.
    — New York Times, 14 May 2022
  • At another house, the cluster munition came through the roof and into the kitchen.
    — Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 30 Mar. 2026

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