ORDNANCE in a Sentence

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1. This was a second piece of ordnance.
2. Shoes and clothing for the army were scarce, ordnance supplies and drugs were scarcer.
3. A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of the street behind the piece of ordnance.

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 Meanings and Examples of ORDNANCE
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ordnance
 n.  mounted guns; branch of government service dealing;
Classic Sentence:
1  Shoes and clothing for the army were scarce, ordnance supplies and drugs were scarcer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  The train bearing the wounded had already come in and the litter bearers were working swiftly in the hot sun, transferring wounded into ambulances and covered ordnance wagons.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of the street behind the piece of ordnance.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM...
4  This was a second piece of ordnance.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MIS...
5  The piece of ordnance referred to, was mounted in a separate fortress, constructed of lattice-work.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXV
6  Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford for its centre.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
7  A white church could be seen through the mist, and here and there the roofs of huts in Borodino as well as dense masses of soldiers, or green ammunition chests and ordnance.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXX
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