How to Use ordnance in a Sentence

ordnance

noun

• The company was outfitted with 50-millimeter ordnance.
• And at home, the land became littered with ordnance, the sea with spills of heavy oil.
  — Damien Cave, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• As a rule of thumb, the U.N. assumes that ten per cent of ordnance fail to function.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
• Her grandfather died that day, not from the ordnance but from the shock that followed.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022
• Still the war ground on, and he was sent to Vietnam as an ordnance officer.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
• From there, the long-range planes have launched days-long flights to drop ordnance on Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
  — Scott Canon, kansascity, 10 Aug. 2017
• Another change in the ordnance would have ended what’s known as gate fees.
  — Christopher Harress | [e-mail], al.com, 17 June 2019
• And the Sumy region in the north was hit with more than 100 pieces of ordnance Thursday night, according to the governor.
  — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• The grenade in the shadow box was inert, but the other was believed to be a live military ordnance.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2019
• Both the rebels and the regime violated the terms of the truce, lobbing ordnance and explosive drones at each other.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• The squadron’s ordnance handlers interpreted it to mean the cable should not be plugged in until the plane was parked on a flight deck.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2023
• Even when combat ends in Ukraine's fields and towns, danger still lurks in the form of mines and unexploded ordnance.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2022
• The Neue Suedtiroler Tageszeitung identified the ordnance as an aerial bomb.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2019
• In that time, more than eighteen million hours of labour produced some billion pounds of ordnance.
  — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019
• She was concerned the ordnance maintainers would be rushed to complete the turnaround.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2019
• Most ordnance handlers understood that to mean it should not be plugged in until the plane was lined up on the catapult, ready to launch.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2023
• And aid groups had warned that the jungles of Kayah were now littered with unexploded ordnance.
  — Yan Naing, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• On a visit on Thursday, ordnance whizzed, thumped and boomed in all directions.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2022
• From the ground around the command post protruded the fins of unexploded ordnance.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• For more than eight months, Zelenyi Hai, in Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv region, was close to the front line, and its potato and onion fields were sown with ordnance.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
• Before any of that can happen, the Army would need to clean up unexploded ordnance from its tests, which could be costly and take a while.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 3 July 2018
• As such, crews will need to safely clear the area of any unexploded ordnances before opening it up to the public.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• First responders weren't able to access the lot because there was still a significant amount of ordnance on the ground.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2021
• In the following days, Japanese sorties rained ordnance on the port.
  — Peter Eisner, Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2017
• In the following days, Japanese sorties rained ordnance on the port.
  — Peter Eisner, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
• Hikers are warned to stay on the trails in case unexploded ordnance remains.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
• Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement that the episode was caused by the explosion of stockpiled ordnance for warplanes at the base.
  — Christiaan Triebert, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2022
• The bomb squad secured the ordnance in a containment vessel and disposed of it in a secure location.
  — Julian Gill, Houston Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2019
• Up to 10 percent of those ordnances did not explode, leaving them to be discovered decades later.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2024
• Authorities are asking beachgoers to be careful; as many as 30 percent of the ordnances may still be live.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024