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 says the Supreme Court's campaign contribution ruling "provides some legal ammunition" for efforts to curtail soft money.

  • 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.

  • (See my old Slate piece ".") The financial crisis of 1997-99 temporarily gave those who claim that globalization is bad for workers everywhere a bit of ammunition, but the crisis did not go on forever, and anyway the solution to future crises surely involves some policing of short-term capital movements rather than a retreat from globalization as a whole.

  • The WP goes bottom front with a dispatch about how the batch of appropriations bills currently on Congress' plate are salted with discreet little money plums for business: for auto companies, defense contractors, utilities, agribusiness, shipbuilders, chemical companies, and even an ammunition manufacturer.

  • Meeks was one of 50 black seamen accused of mutiny in 1944 when they refused to resume loading ammunition onto ships after a deadly explosion at Port Chicago.


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