How to Use weapon in a Sentence

weapon

noun
  • The pitcher's slider is his most effective weapon.
  • The mayor's campaign unleashed its secret weapon.
  • Just then, Hudson and Ressler got out of the car and raised their weapons.
    Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
  • The motion lists out the full collection of the weapons cache over about 35 pages.
    Jean Casarez, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
  • So weapons like the F-16 longer range, a rocket fired artillery, that kind of thing.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The book suggests mass shootings stoked fears of weapons bans that led to greater gun sales.
    Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
  • North Korea claims the weapon can be deployed at any port.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Blaine Gabbert is starting in place of Patrick Mahomes, and the Chiefs don’t have a ton of weapons.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Though Epps and Sykes give the flashiest comedic performances, Fields is the show's secret weapon.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Shifflett fired his own weapon twice at the suspect, then tripped over some nearby brush and fell to the ground.
    Rashard Rose, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The woman then spoke with deputies, describing the vehicle and the weapon used.
    Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The Pentagon said Thursday that the weapons had arrived in Ukraine.
    Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
  • Firemen rescued the luggage of two guests that was filled with weapons and cash.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Police found no weapons at the scene, and no arrests were made, the department said.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The person fled with the employee’s weapon but was caught by police a few blocks away.
    Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Turns out, that addition might be the not-so-secret weapon that helped this one come out on top of the gooey heap.
    Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The second man fired a weapon, hitting the first man during the argument.
    Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The 6-foot-6-inch Waller is going to be a huge weapon for Jones in the red zone and could be in line for a career renaissance at 31.
    Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • When the weapon broke, Creech kicked and stomped Jensen’s throat and head against his cell’s concrete floor and bed frame, prosecutors said.
    Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Once the monk hands the weapon over to the lama, the film can finally reveal how this desperate leader intends to use it.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Oct. 2023
  • But remaining is the only real weapon the men of Ain Ebel are willing to wield.
    Matt Bradley, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • As his family begged him to let go of the weapon, Ordaz Jr. asked the deputies to summon a helicopter and a news chopper, the footage shows.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • But in this era before advanced weapons, the successful hunter may not have been human at all.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
  • This month, the UN human rights chief, Volker Turk, said the practice may amount to using starvation as a weapon of war.
    Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The mission quickly turns into the fight of his life, full of underground weapon dealers and intense stunts.
    Brooke Lamantia, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Apr. 2023
  • During the Cold War, though, this rocket was part of a dangerous class of nuclear weapons.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • He is also wanted on drugs and weapons charges in Arkansas, the sheriff's office said.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2023
  • His arrival gives the Hurricanes a big-time weapon at quarterback.
    Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
  • What were some of the most important advances in weapon development?
    Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Which is that: The real weapon being used here isn’t a cyberattack, a smart bomb, or sabotage.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2023

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