Example sentences for: artillery

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

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

  • Riding on helicopters, sleeping in foxholes within range of North Vietnamese artillery, and even playing basketball in villages near the base were all things Gore did that involved a degree of avoidable risk.

  • The Times Bosnia dispatch, by blue-chip foreign correspondent Chris Hedges, describes an increasingly serious situation: Thousands of Serbian police and troops backed by artillery and tanks pressing into the Albanian forces surrounding a Serbian pocket.

  • The Italian Army was the least well prepared of the combatants, lacking artillery, machine guns, trucks, and properly trained officers, but the infantry showed remarkable courage in the trenches.

  • 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.


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