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Example sentences for "munitions"

Lexicographically close words:
muniment; muniments; munire; munita; munition; munna; munnot; munny; munshi; munus
  1. Thanks to his activity and genius, the expedition was provided with bread, cloth, arms and munitions of war; the engineers with the exact tools of their trade; the surgeons with operating instruments.

  2. The disaster of Aboukir and the revolt of Cairo had caused the loss of the greater part of the instruments and munitions taken out by the French.

  3. A Federal writer from Murfreesboro estimated their loss in property and munitions at one million dollars.

  4. Forthwith, after the ratification of this Convention, as in the last preceding Article mentioned, all British troops in Transvaal territory will leave the same, and the mutual delivery of munitions of war will be carried out.

  5. Could you tell me how to get to the Whitewater Arms and Munitions Factory?

  6. In the many little villages there was much excitement and activity with troops, artillery, and munitions being rushed through to the front, and the consequent wild rumors of great attacks and victories.

  7. There are no stores of munitions or railway communications to be demolished.

  8. The army, in its expeditions against the hostile Indian tribes, always employed wagons in transporting its provisions and munitions of war, except in the mountains, where the faithful pack-mule was substituted.

  9. It will be remembered that he surrendered to the Confederate government the troops, the munitions of war, the forts, or posts as they were properly termed, and everything pertaining to the United States army under his control.

  10. The alliance for war was sworn to by both parties; they agreed upon a day for the execution of the plan which they meditated, and the Spaniards furnished the savages with all the munitions which they thought were needed.

  11. My first duty is to you, and were it to do again, I would do it.

  12. The sale of munitions to the Russian Government is enriching Japan, as our sales to the Allies are enriching us.

  13. A major munitions magazine opened at Point of Fork on the James River in Fluvanna County, and small iron furnaces appeared throughout the Piedmont and in the Valley areas.

  14. From there he sent Major John Simcoe on a raid against General Steuben and the major munitions center at Point of Fork on the James.

  15. When they found that ship-repairing and shipbuilding and the production of munitions were hampered and delayed by drunkenness, they adopted restrictions of various kinds.

  16. We must look at our population in a new light and see them not as makers of munitions but as sons of God.

  17. So all through the night, he interpreted the incessant bustle as the passing of vehicles filled with the wounded, with munitions and eatables, like those which had filed by in the afternoon.

  18. They served as a refuge to those off duty, and kept the munitions away from the enemy's shell.

  19. This victory was felt by us, because the enemy took from the patache a quantity of money, three thousand fanegas of rice, and other provisions and munitions belonging to his Majesty.

  20. In the first place, it maintains the war of Maluco and feeds it with troops, supplies, and munitions continually, a thing which Portuguese India could not do.

  21. There were no longer troops and their munitions to be moved double-quick to the seaboard; instead there was the rather leisurely return of the boys in khaki to their homes.

  22. The provisions and munitions of war were promptly landed and conveyed to Ucita.

  23. We have learned through the Great Eastern Railway Company, and through one or two shipping houses, of huge consignments of stores, and, I make very little doubt, of munitions of war.

  24. We know that men and horses, stores and munitions of war, were pouring steadily and continuously into East Anglia from Germany during this time, escorted by German cruisers and torpedo-boats, and uninterrupted by British ships.

  25. One thirty-two pounder was found in their works, about one thousand stand of arms, and a large quantity of munitions of war.

  26. A fresh cargo of munitions of war was awaiting the Let Her B, and a ship was ready to take to England the cotton she would bring.

  27. Before leaving Bermuda I had ordered a cargo of munitions of war sent to Turk's Island.

  28. So enormous were the profits arising from the exchange of munitions of war and medicines* (* Quinine sold in the South for one hundred dollars (Confederate) the ounce.

  29. We're a-makin' munitions now," he explained.

  30. The meeting of the three Finance Ministers in Paris was followed by the Councils of the allied generals, by the combined expedition to the Dardanelles, and by the nationalization of the manufacture of munitions in each of the allied countries.

  31. At any rate, it is no secret that from the latter half of the year 1915 Germany and Austria were far ahead of Great Britain, France, Russia, the United States and Japan combined in the amount of munitions they turned out every week.

  32. Give us waggons and we will execute all orders and supply the War Ministry," cried the munitions firms.

  33. Half of the shares of the celebrated Putiloff munitions factory are said to have belonged to the Austrian Skoda Works.

  34. The manufacture of munitions was confided to private firms and to the whims of dissatisfied workmen, and co-operation among the various sections of the population was left to private initiative.

  35. If this step deserved the fervent approval it met with, its efficacy was considerably impaired by imposing on the new Secretary the task of purveying munitions and other supplies, in addition to the multifarious duties of his office.

  36. Millions of dollars were expended in the United States in efforts to prevent the manufacture or the transport of munitions to the Allies.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "munitions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abundance; accumulation; apparatus; appliance; appointments; appurtenances; armament; backlog; budget; collection; commissary; conveniences; cornucopia; cumulation; defense; duffel; dump; equipage; equipment; facilities; facility; fitting; fixture; furnishings; furniture; gear; hardware; heap; hoard; impedimenta; installation; inventory; larder; machinery; mass; material; materiel; munitions; musketry; ordnance; outfit; paraphernalia; pile; plant; plenitude; plenty; plumbing; provision; rations; repertory; rick; rig; rigging; stack; stock; stockpile; supplies; tackle; things; treasure; treasury; utensil; weapon