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Serpukhov is already occupied by an enemy detachment and Tula with its famous arsenal so indispensable to the army, is in danger.

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 Meanings and Examples of ARSENAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
arsenal
 n.  storage place for military equipment; stock of weapons
Classic Sentence:
1  They had come to America years before, after the discovery of a small arsenal of rifles buried under the O'Hara pigsty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Serpukhov is already occupied by an enemy detachment and Tula with its famous arsenal so indispensable to the army, is in danger.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III
3  Before the war there had been few cotton factories, woolen mills, arsenals and machine shops south of Maryland--a fact of which all Southerners were proud.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
5  Whether your choice be broad Hesperia, the fields of Saturn's dominion, or Eryx for your country and Acestes for your king, my escort shall speed you in safety, my arsenals supply your need.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
Example Sentence:
1  People are forbidden to smoke in the arsenal for fear that a stray spark might set off the munitions stored there.
2  The adjutant general may designate an officer to be in direct charge of each armory, arsenal, camp, base, or other facility.
3  The concept of an arsenal ship is rather simple.
4  The country has agreed to reduce its nuclear arsenal.
5  Procter & Gamble announced on Friday that it would cut as many as 100 brands from its arsenal to focus on others, like Tide, that made the company a powerhouse over the decades.
6  The army planned to attack enemy arsenals.
7  Russia and the other republics are committed to destroying most of their nuclear arsenals.
8  Personnel overseen by a team of international monitors took the first step on the road to dismantling what is believed to be one of the world's largest arsenals of the weapons of mass destruction.