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How to use armament in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Armament means a body of forces equipped for war. Example: “Premier Raymond Poincaré, ever an arch militarist, took full advantage of last week’s war scare in the Belgian Parliament to trumpet through the inspired Parisian press that France must drastically increase her armaments.”

Examples of armament by meaning

nounA body of forces equipped for war.

  • Premier Raymond Poincaré, ever an arch militarist, took full advantage of last week’s war scare in the Belgian Parliament to trumpet through the inspired Parisian press that France must drastically increase her armaments.1927 February 28, “FRANCE: Poincaré’s Week”, in TIME, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2025

More sentences with armament

  • Jerry's got a mass of stuff there—tanks, guns, lorries, every sort of heavy armament.2011 [1965], Olivia Manning, Friends And Heroes (The Balkan Trilogy), Random House, →ISBN. From the entry have kittens
  • There was no similar carrot and stick for use against the French land armaments.1928, Joseph Montague with George Young, Freedom of the Seas, page 159. From the entry carrot and stick
  • The armament consists of a torpedo tube, which is provided with five Whitehead torpedoes.1901 June 22, “Launch of the Submarine Torpedo Boat ‘Fulton’”, in Scientific American, volume 84, number 25, New York: Munn, page 388. From the entry torpedo tube
  • In addition to this armament, it contained two bombproofs.2014, Kevin Dougherty, Military Leadership Lessons of the Charleston Campaign, 1861-1865. From the entry bombproof
  • However, every smaller terrorist state has its own superwarheads, happily sold to them by the big powers' armament industries.1990, Christine Brooke-Rose, Verbivore, Carcanet, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47. From the entry superwarhead
  • This approach would contractualize the East's very large numerical advantages in most types of major armaments in the area.1977, American Foreign Policy Current Documents, page 460. From the entry contractualize
  • To attempt to remove the armaments before removing these substantive conflicts of interest is to put the cart before the horse.1957 December 2, “Corruption of the Mind”, in TIME, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2007. From the entry put the cart before the horse
  • Thus, the former three-hangared armaments factory sports a new layer of paint and a model hot-air balloon, beckoning spectators on a wondrous ride.2014, Atay Citron, Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, David Zerbib, Performance Studies in Motion. From the entry hangared
  • In his seminal work that made him the doyen of modern hoplology, Sir Richard Burton traces the spread of various arms and armaments of the world to ancient Egypt.2008, T. J. Desch Obi, Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Arts in the Atlantic World, University of South Carolina Press…. From the entry hoplology
  • Gaslark in his splendour on the golden stairs saying adieu to those three captains and their matchless armament foredoomed to dogs and crows on Salapanta Hills.1922, E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroborus. From the entry crow

Meaning of armament

  1. noun A body of forces equipped for war.
  2. noun All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
  3. noun Any equipment for resistance.

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Questions about armament in a sentence

How do you use armament in a sentence?
Armament is used as a noun. For example: “Premier Raymond Poincaré, ever an arch militarist, took full advantage of last week’s war scare in the Belgian Parliament to trumpet through the inspired Parisian press that France must drastically increase her armaments.”
What is a short sentence with armament?
“In addition to this armament, it contained two bombproofs.”
What does armament mean?
Armament means a body of forces equipped for war.

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