AMMUNITION in a Sentence

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Presently few carried anything but their necessary clothing, blankets, haversacks, canteens, and arms and ammunition.

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 Meanings and Examples of AMMUNITION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ammunition
 n.  military stores or provisions; articles used in weapons, as powder, balls, shot, shells
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  To run away would only give them more ammunition.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Many of the men were totally unarmed, for the Confederacy had neither rifles nor ammunition to issue to them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  The pockets of his coat sagged heavily with ammunition.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  "That must be the last of the ammunition trains," Rhett said calmly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  The folks are starving and the railroads are torn up and there aren't any new rifles and the ammunition is giving out and there's no leather at all for shoes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  Even Heyward and David were furnished with weapons; nor was ammunition wanting to render them all effectual.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
7  Presently few carried anything but their necessary clothing, blankets, haversacks, canteens, and arms and ammunition.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  "The ammunition for the guns in position is exhausted, Your Majesty," said an adjutant who had come from the batteries that were firing at Augesd.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX
9  They said that had we held out a little longer Napoleon would have been done for, as his troops had neither provisions nor ammunition.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XXI
10  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
11  The man who had been ordered to go for ammunition stumbled against Pierre.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXI
12  The horse of an ammunition cart put its leg over a trace.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVI
13  Forty eight guns with ammunition have been sent him from here, and his Serene Highness says he will defend Moscow to the last drop of blood and is even ready to fight in the streets.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER X
14  Behind them came more carts, soldiers, wagons, soldiers, gun carriages, carriages, soldiers, ammunition carts, more soldiers, and now and then women.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIV
15  The insurgents did not reply to this musketry, in order to spare their ammunition The fusillade broke against the barricade; but the street, which it filled, was terrible.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND...
Example Sentence:
1  I will carry these two rifles myself; the ammunition is all there except that bag in the corner.
2  It might have seemed to him a waste of ammunition to kill a bug with a battery of artillery.
3  The soldiers expend all their ammunition in that fight.
4  I took all the coffee and sugar there was, and all the ammunition; I took the wadding; I took the bucket and gourd; I took a dipper and a tin cup, and my old saw and two blankets, and the skillet and the coffee-pot.
5  Half a million guns and more than 800 million rounds of ammunition were looted in 1997, when thousands of Albanians, furious over losing their life savings in fraudulent pyramid investment schemes, stormed army barracks.
6  The police also found a quantity of ammunition in the flat.
7  They had to meet the attack with very little ammunition.
8  In fact it is these abuses that have provided the ammunition to bring the entire concept of headship into disrepute.
9  He had only seven rounds of ammunition for the revolver.
10  We have shot away all our ammunition.