Example sentences for: ammunition

How can you use “ammunition” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The WP stuffs the story, but mentions early on that one of the protesters was apparently killed by a sniper using live ammunition, though the government claims only rubber bullets were used.

  • In targeting esoteric words used by lawyers in place of ordinary ones under the pretense of precision, it seems to me that the author is wasting ammunition on words like reasonable, substantial , and satisfactory . They are words of ordinary speech, with which juries are quite comfortable, and lawyers are as aware as everybody else that they are imprecise.

  • One Saudi reformer noted to us that the demonization of Saudi Arabia in the U.S. media gives ammunition to radicals, who accuse reformers of being U.S. lackeys.

  • Now the nations of the West can admit wrongdoing without the fear that they are giving ammunition to the enemies of freedom.

  • Quoting a military manual leaked to the Jakarta Post , the paper said platoon leaders have been authorized to use live ammunition "in self-defense to cripple rioters who are clearly threatening to kill others [or to] cause heavy material damage."


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