Example sentences for: artillery

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

  • Clark wanted to use his air assets to target tactical assets, such as tanks and artillery pieces in the field, while Short wanted to hit strategic targets, such as ministry buildings and power plants.

  • In the Battle of Orleans — fought in Chalmette down the river — General Sir Edward Packenham and his redcoats marched in proper formation across the battlefield like toy soldiers — straight into the American artillery.

  • The 1943 bombing, combined with artillery fire at the end of the war, left the tower with the broken stump of its spire — 63 m (206 ft) compared with its original 113 m (370 ft) — as a monumental ruin recalling the city’s destruction.

  • Live artillery shells, a dead sea turtle half the size of a Volkswagen Bettle, a drowned giraffe, antique crockery, pocketbooks, chemical sludge, raw sewage and about 5,000 cords of driftwood a year--the waters of New York Harbor yield a strage and eclectic bounty.

  • In 1921 the Germans placed their artillery here to defend the colonial port of Amoy, as Xiamen was known to Westerners.


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