How to Use armory in a Sentence

armory

noun
  • In fact, sanctions are only one weapon in a large armory.
    Matthew Levitt, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2017
  • The evening ends with ice cream and awards back inside the armory.
    Mary Schneidau Sullivan, Laurel Leader, 7 June 2018
  • It was built in 1856 to serve as the District’s armory.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2017
  • In the back and upstairs was an armory with more than 700 firearms.
    Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 28 May 2021
  • The men busted into the prison armory, stole weapons and stormed out of the unit in a prison truck.
    Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 27 June 2018
  • The training will be held in the lower level of the armory from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
    baltimoresun.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Fuller has said the city can buy the armory for $1 from the state if the building is used for housing.
    John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2020
  • But the lunches, the enjoyment, the fun, were all part of his armory.
    Henry Porter, The Hive, 13 Mar. 2017
  • The armory is an A-framed tent of plastic sheeting and tree trunks.
    Sam Kiley, CNN, 7 July 2021
  • And that was assuming Brown got out of the armory alive.
    Alexis Coe, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The team had to practice on a small concrete floor in the local armory.
    Matthew Vantryon, Indianapolis Star, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Now the big guns are ready to fire, and U.S. coach Bruce Arena summoned some of the biggest ones in the armory.
    Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 18 July 2017
  • The structure on the Upper East Side was designed to look like the armory that was once on its site.
    Jazmine Hughes, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Over the next few days, the guard will begin hosting 20 new testing sites at armories across the state.
    Tony Cook, Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The police have replaced the officer in charge of the armory, but so far no arrests have been made in the theft.
    Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2018
  • But the ward built this building to look like a National Guard armory.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Shea left the company, and Centre kept most of his armory.
    Zachary Mider, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Our cottage’s private hot tub occupied a room at the base of the tower that once held the armory.
    Sharon Boorstin, latimes.com, 30 June 2019
  • After being advised by Nichols not to go to the armory, the group remained for a while in a meeting room at the hotel.
    The Courier-Journal, 14 May 2018
  • John Brown led an attack on the federal armory in Harpers Ferry in 1859 in an attempt to free the slaves.
    John M. Crisp, Star Tribune, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Use of the armories as winter shelters in Orange County dates to 1987.
    Theresa Walker, Orange County Register, 20 Jan. 2017
  • Last May, Trump also expressed a desire to sell $110 billion worth of weapons and armory to the Saudis.
    Stavros Agorakis, Vox, 21 Nov. 2018
  • The Cat’s Cradle has training spaces, dorms, an armory, and quite a few secret rooms.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 2 July 2020
  • But a new class of variant-proof treatments could help restock the country’s armory.
    Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Yes, there is a huge four seasons firework armory attached to the restaurant.
    kansascity, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The medical unit lies beyond the armory and is painted green and yellow.
    Katanga Johnson, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Huawei is one part of the CCP’s armory in an asymmetric struggle in pursuit of its interests against those of the free world.
    Matthew Henderson, National Review, 1 May 2020
  • It will be staged inside an armory in Brooklyn with about 12 cameras.
    Mark Kennedy, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The group has been working on ways to revitalize Pikesville and has high hopes for the armory property.
    Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Locus Biosciences of North Carolina is adding the gene-editing tool Crispr to the phages’ armory to boost their killing ability.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2024

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