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How to use ammo in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun, verb

Ammo means ammunition. Example: “Under fire when this magazine is emptied you shout for “ammo” but perhaps No. 2, the ammo carrier, is lying in the rear with a bullet through his napper.”

Examples of ammo by meaning

nounAmmunition.

  • Under fire when this magazine is emptied you shout for “ammo” but perhaps No. 2, the ammo carrier, is lying in the rear with a bullet through his napper.1917, Arthur Guy Empey, “Lewis Gun”, in Over the Top, G. P. Putnam's, page 297
  • I been expectin' you an' I got plenty ammo.'1954, Ian Fleming, “Midnight Among The Worms”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 161
  • We walked onto the racecourse like a pair of Wyatt Earps, cashed up and plenty of ammo and we walked off like a pair of Elmer Fudds, out of `buwwets'.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 110

verbTo load up on ammunition.

  • "Harry and Hassan are getting the car re-ammoed; they dropped me off here.2001, H. Beam Piper, Uller Uprising

More sentences with ammo

  • The crate of supplies soft-landed in the drop zone under its parachute, allowing the soldiers to replenish their food and ammo for the next few days of fighting.From the entry soft-land
  • Emerging crewmen hoisted boxes of ammo, firearms, radio sets and life vests on deck.2018 November 5, John J. Tkacik, Jr., “Stars and Stripes over Pratas Island”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2020. From the entry Tungsha
  • Also found gun paper, a machine gun stock and a bunch of empty ammo boxes.2014, James J. Dunn, Kidnapping the Prince of Albany: John O'Connell Kidnapping, →ISBN. From the entry gun paper
  • The NRA, with its fearless commitment to unlimited ammo, going after a game called Bulletstorm?2012 December 21, Richard Whittaker, “NRA: Don't Blame Guns, Blame Kung Lao”, in The Austin Chronicle. From the entry gun-centric
  • It took longer to gob up the ammo but in Obadi's words it was “more satisfying”.2008, Stephan Ray Swimmer, Changing of Seasons, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry gob up
  • Anderson came over to me and I noticed his ammo bandoliers were full of Marlboro hardpacks.2005, Shane A. Bernskoetter, Surviving Twilight. From the entry hardpack
  • The battlemaster will remind participants to conserve their ammo during remainder of scenario.1992 September, Data Tables From Combat Vehicle Command and Control Battalion-Level Preliminary Evaluation, United States Army, Research…. From the entry battlemaster
  • Police up your extra ammo and frags, don't leave nothing for the dinks.1986, Oliver Stone, Platoon, spoken by Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe). From the entry frag
  • ELIAS: Police up your extra ammo and frags, don't leave nothing for the dinks.1986, Oliver Stone, Platoon (film script). From the entry police
  • No parkas, no shoepaks, no ammo, no nothing.2014, David Webster, Parachute Infantry: The book that inspired Band of Brothers, →ISBN. From the entry shoepak
  • Lots of girls are doing war work, making guns and ammo, driving trams and trains, nursing, that sort of thing.2013, James Riordan, When The Guns Fall Silent, →ISBN. From the entry war work
  • You start off with just seven clips of ammo and five grenades — so all you autofire merchants are in trouble.1988, Operation Wolf (review), Crash issue 59 (December 1988). From the entry autofire
  • When it did not match their miscellaneous firearms, they were ingenious at reconverting the ammo to the weapon.1963, Margaret Bourke-White, chapter 28, in Portrait of Myself, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 338. From the entry reconvert
  • The smiths and metalwrights were good, but there was only so much they could do, and making modern ammo was beyond their capabilities.2009, Patrice Sarath, Red Gold Bridge, New York, N.Y.: Ace, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry metalwright
  • Laden with mortars, ammo, and a Browning .50-caliber heavy machine gun, the heavy weaponsmen lumbered after the two to the position Gunnar had chosen.1990, John Lansing, Nguy-Hiem War Zone, page 57. From the entry weaponsman
  • But there are also French “survivalists” who – at least until about a decade ago – shared the drawbridge mentality of the Americans stocking up on peanut butter and ammo.2020 October 11, Laura Spinney, “‘Humans weren’t always here. We could disappear’: meet the collapsologists”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry survivalist

Meaning of ammo

  1. noun Ammunition.
  2. noun Chips or money, usually at a casino.
  3. verb To load up on ammunition.

Full definition of ammo

Questions about ammo in a sentence

How do you use ammo in a sentence?
Ammo is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Under fire when this magazine is emptied you shout for “ammo” but perhaps No. 2, the ammo carrier, is lying in the rear with a bullet through his napper.”
What is a short sentence with ammo?
“No parkas, no shoepaks, no ammo, no nothing.”
What does ammo mean?
Ammo means ammunition.

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