ARTILLERY in a Sentence
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70 example sentences for ARTILLERY, such as:
1. This is a heavy artillery piece.
2. The manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer.
3. You are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery.
4. Enemy forces lobbed a series of artillery shells onto the city.
5. Prince Andrew glanced again at the artillery officer's small figure.
2. The manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer.
3. You are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery.
4. Enemy forces lobbed a series of artillery shells onto the city.
5. Prince Andrew glanced again at the artillery officer's small figure.
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Meanings and Examples of ARTILLERY
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artillery
n. an army unit that uses big guns
n. large but transportable armament
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1 At midday the Russian baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling through the town of Enns on both sides of the bridge.
2 Suddenly on the road at the top of the high ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen.
3 You are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery.
4 Prince Andrew glanced again at the artillery officer's small figure.
5 Before the guns an artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing.
6 Behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire.
7 His idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the dip.
8 The manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer.
9 Not far from the artillery campfire, in a hut that had been prepared for him, Prince Bagration sat at dinner, talking with some commanding officers who had gathered at his quarters.
10 Gentlemen, I thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically: infantry, cavalry, and artillery.
11 The whole army was extended in three lines: the cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the infantry.
12 Rostov saw the Cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then Generals Bagration and Dolgorukov ride past with their adjutants.
13 Having by a great effort got away to the left from that flood of men, Kutuzov, with his suite diminished by more than half, rode toward a sound of artillery fire near by.
14 He also saw French infantry soldiers who were seizing the artillery horses and turning the guns round.
15 He could also, by the gleam of bayonets visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow lines of artillery with green caissons.
Example Sentence:
1 The allies let loose an intensive artillery bombardment over the border.
2 This is a heavy artillery piece.
3 Enemy forces lobbed a series of artillery shells onto the city.
4 The aerial bombardments have neutralized the threat of artillery attacks on allied ground forces.
5 Our rocket artillery is simply a mass of rounds pointed at the general area of the enemy.
6 It might have seemed to him a waste of ammunition to kill a bug with a battery of artillery.
7 Civil war has chased Fatima Ghorab and her brood of some two dozen women and children across Syria in search of safe havens that keep disappearing in the booms of artillery shells.