ORDNANCE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for ORDNANCE, such as:
1. This was a second piece of ordnance.
2. Shoes and clothing for the army were scarce, ordnance supplies and drugs were scarcer.
3. A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of the street behind the piece of ordnance.
2. Shoes and clothing for the army were scarce, ordnance supplies and drugs were scarcer.
3. A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of the street behind the piece of ordnance.
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Meanings and Examples of ORDNANCE
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ordnance
n. mounted guns; branch of government service dealing;
Classic Sentence:
1 Shoes and clothing for the army were scarce, ordnance supplies and drugs were scarcer.
2 The train bearing the wounded had already come in and the litter bearers were working swiftly in the hot sun, transferring wounded into ambulances and covered ordnance wagons.
3 A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of the street behind the piece of ordnance.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM...
4 This was a second piece of ordnance.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MIS...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MIS...
5 The piece of ordnance referred to, was mounted in a separate fortress, constructed of lattice-work.
6 Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford for its centre.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
7 A white church could be seen through the mist, and here and there the roofs of huts in Borodino as well as dense masses of soldiers, or green ammunition chests and ordnance.
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