How to Use heavy artillery in a Sentence

heavy artillery

noun

• And that’s what the Warriors were able to hit with their heavy artillery.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024
• For the first live performance of Utopia, Scott went big and unleashed his heavy artillery.
  — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2023
• The Ukraine war has been fought largely on the ground in the past two years, with troops often locked in back-and-forth battles with heavy artillery and drone support.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• Popovich, 34, said his unit was caught in heavy artillery fire a few weeks ago that lasted for two hours, but Ukrainian forces were unable to counter.
  — Daryna Mayer, NBC News, 19 Feb. 2024
• The sound of heavy artillery exploding is a constant background to life in the villages beyond.
  — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• As heavy artillery rained from the sky, militants went door-to-door to find targets and shoot at unarmed civilians.
  — Cora Engelbrecht, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• They were met with heavy artillery and mortar fire and bogged down after several hours of fighting.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2023
• In late June, amid heavy artillery fire and intense urban fighting, Russia took the major city of Sievierodonetsk.
  — Hope Hodge Seck, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
• The army, lacking effective ground forces, responded with heavy artillery and air strikes.
  — Maggie Michael, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2024
• Yet, even in the face of heavy artillery and indiscriminate air strikes, under-armed rebels have consistently been able to hold on to large swaths of cities.
  — Michael Jackson, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2016
• Its front lines are close together and barraged with heavy artillery, and rotations from the front line are infrequent.
  — Text By Ellen Barry, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• This month, heavy artillery bombardments from across the border in Russia announced the latest attack.
  — Andrew E. Kramer Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• The Russians bombard Ukrainian positions with heavy artillery from miles away and send small bands of soldiers to try to infiltrate Ukrainian trenches in the dark of night.
  — Tyler Hicks Marc Santora, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
• Denmark has no heavy artillery, submarines or air-defense systems.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023
• To advance, Ukraine’s military has engaged in cat-and-mouse efforts to find openings and weak spots where smaller units can slip in, hit targets and roll out, while heavy artillery pops off from farther away.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
• Russia was using an advantage in heavy artillery to grind down Ukrainian positions, inching forward a few feet at a time.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
• France, the next biggest spender, has fewer than 90 heavy artillery pieces, equivalent to what Russia loses roughly every month on the Ukraine battlefield.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023
• These tools are the heavy artillery, the sophisticated devices painstakingly crafted to protect us from crooks, demagogues, and would-be tyrants.
  — Kermit Roosevelt Iii, TIME, 31 May 2024
• All that said, feels like a couple dozen guys from Kansas City with heavy artillery could overtake this idyllic hamlet and ruin it incredibly quickly.
  — Kyle Orland & Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2023
• Residents in Gaza City said the fighting intensified overnight into Wednesday, with gunfire, heavy artillery and airstrikes.
  — Josef Federman, arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2023
• Walz specialized in heavy artillery and had proficiency ribbons in sharpshooting and hand grenades.
  — George Fabe Russell, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2024
• YouTube footage shows marshals with heavy artillery and bulletproof vests taking positions around NoHo Printing and on nearby rooftops.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• And rather than withdraw, Russian forces held their positions even under heavy artillery bombardment, meaning the Ukrainians would have to engage in close combat with small arms to advance.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• One of the heavy artillery pieces in the battle to restore the separation of powers as designed by our Constitution is the nondelegation doctrine.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024
• As the ground battles intensified, heavy artillery like the M777 played an increasingly decisive role.
  — Hope Hodge Seck, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
• The Trump campaign brought out heavy artillery to try to discredit another female employee who filed a federal lawsuit in February 2019.
  — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 23 May 2024
• Also on Tuesday, at least three civilians were killed and 43 others were wounded by the latest Russian attacks involving drones, gliding bombs and heavy artillery, Ukraine’s presidential office said.
  — Hanna Arhirova, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
• Mark Kelly Ukraine’s troops are using both old-fashioned heavy artillery and commercial products such as drones with grenades attached to them, directed via Starlink’s satellite internet service.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2023
• Also Tuesday, at least three civilians were killed and 43 others were wounded by the latest Russian attacks involving drones, gliding bombs and heavy artillery, Ukraine’s presidential office said.
  — Hanna Arhirova, ajc, 29 Mar. 2023
• Residents said clashes involving heavy artillery began again around 11 a.m.
  — Hafiz Haroun, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024