How to Use ammunition in a Sentence

ammunition

noun

• The troops were supplied with weapons and ammunition.
• A day earlier, a teacher had seen Ethan searching for ammunition on his phone.
  — Time, 24 Oct. 2022
• The other six were assessed to have hit an ammunition storage site in Karachev, the official said.
  — David Brennan, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2024
• The guns and a large amount of ammunition, magazines and firearm accessories were wrapped in thin plastic and tucked inside bales of alfalfa.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 27 Oct. 2022
• An officer removed an ammunition clip that was loaded with five bullets, rendering the weapon safe, the report said.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
• A day earlier, a teacher had seen Ethan Crumbley searching for ammunition on his phone.
  — Corey Williams and Mike Householder, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2022
• Harris also placed further magazines full of ammunition in hallways and stairways just prior to his attack.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2022
• Tomasi was ordered to forfeit his assault rifle, handgun, shotgun, gun magazines and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
  — Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 26 Nov. 2024
• To mitigate this problem, wildlife protection agencies have made regulations about the use of lead shot ammunition.
  — Jerry Butler, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2022
• Historically, lead was used in drinking water pipes, ammunition, gasoline and paint.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Nov. 2024
• Lithuania has previously supplied ammunition such as that to be manufactured in the plant to nearby Ukraine.
  — Joe Edwards, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
• Without the latter, multiple systems might fire at the target at the same time, using up ammunition inefficiently.
  — Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• His threat came as the Guard and other security forces have violently cracked down on demonstrations with live ammunition, anti-riot pellets and tear gas.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2022
• The safe was open on the bed next to an empty box of 9mm ammunition.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2023
• If passed, the bill would impose a use and sales tax on the retail sale of ammunition.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 12 Jan. 2024
• But the civilian sailors crewed the ships that carried the troops, the ammunition and the sinews of war across the Atlantic and Pacific.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Nov. 2022
• So why a tax on the makers and sellers of firearms and ammunition?
  — Eileen McCarron, The Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2024
• Six rounds of ammunition was found elsewhere in the car.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2022
• Nearly out of ammunition, Mr. Waugh was hit in the knee by machine-gun fire, and then in the foot and ankle.
  — Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
• The Western tanks could help open a new pipeline for ammunition to flow to Ukraine.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 Jan. 2023
• Emerging from the midterms, the anti-Trump wing has plenty of ammunition to make its case for a break.
  — Maya King, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
• Even if the box of ammunition is not full, the bullets must be in their original case.
  — Daily Times, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
• The team was also out of ammunition, except for a dozen hand grenades.
  — Matt Seyler, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2023
• Hanwha has shipped howitzers to Egypt and ammunition to the UK.
  — Eli Joseph, Fortune Asia, 6 June 2024
• Hutchins was killed with live ammunition, which was not supposed to be on set.
  — Ana Faguy, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• More weapons and ammunition were found in his car, the official said.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 7 May 2023
• Hunters and sport shooters will find ample ammunition for sale at the Bi-Mart display, billed as the biggest sale in the state.
  — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 10 Feb. 2023
• Ukrainian trucks would arrive at the airport to pick up the ammunition.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• Police said that there were several casings of ammunition on the ground next to him.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 20 Nov. 2024
• For each drone deployed, Ukraine must expend ammunition from its air defense systems to neutralize it.
  — Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024