More than 200 pieces of artillery of large calibre, admirably served and well directed, played incessantly upon the hostile lines.
We arrived just in time to prevent the latter work from assuming most troublesome dimensions, for the casemates were ready for nine guns more, and the platforms indicated they would be of large calibre.
The same result will be experienced with the plain open-sight which comes on this favorite arm, as well as most of the other revolvers of American make, of large calibre.
A revolver, because a rifle of large calibre, to have produced such a wound, must have been discharged at considerable distance, for the bullet was losing its velocity when it found the victim.
We cannot get any clues at all, save that the man was killed by a bullet of large calibre in the hands of a good shot, as the distance from which it was fired would seem to show.
I interrupted: "The murder of Smith was considered to be due to a pistol ball of large calibre.
This small body of troops held a number of forts and batteries mounting eighty-eight guns, none of them of large calibre.
According to Leriche, explosion of large calibre shells or of a mine can produce cerebral or spinal symptoms, some of which are removed by lumbar puncture.
A Moroccan of the Seventh Tirailleurs was thrown to the ground by the explosion very near him of a large calibre shell, lost consciousness, and woke up with a slight contusion of the right side of the head.
The pieces of large calibre mounted on the cavaliers of the bastions of the work did not begin to fire on the mortar battery until daybreak, and silenced it about noon.
The garrison could not respond to the fire of the mortar batteries, as they had no more guns of large calibre.
They numbered six thousand men, and brought with them thirty pieces of ordnance, of which twelve were of large calibre.
The armament of the forts would consist of a hundred and sixty guns of large calibre, and that of the batteries of forty-five guns of long range.
The old name for a gun of large calibre used in the French navy, whence the term was adopted into ours.
Also, pieces of ordnance of large calibre, in form between the gun and the carronade.
Shorter and lighter than the common cannon, and having a chamber for the powder like a mortar, they are generally of large calibre, and carried on the upper works, as the poop and forecastle.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "large calibre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
