Example sentences for: stockpile

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

  • Since a 1992 moratorium on underground testing, the government has used computer and nonnuclear explosive tests to check America's nuclear stockpile.

  • --Inventory and related property may be revalued for such reasons as determination that the property is excess, obsolete, or unserviceable; that stockpile materials have decayed or been damaged; that a loss is estimated on commodity purchase agreements; or that a change has occurred in the net realizable value of commodities valued at the lower of cost or net realizable value.

  • The Wall Street Journal reports that military planners of possible airstrikes against Iraq have become less confident of the U.S. ability to bomb biological weapons sites in Iraq after a secret Air Force test in which a special bomb that was expected to incinerate a stockpile of anthrax-like germs instead spread them.

  • Toronto's Globe and Mail accused the Turkish government, which spends billions on armaments, of not having "the forethought to stockpile the heavy equipment needed to dig people out at quake sites."

  • USA Today goes with government investigators saying that the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons has become increasingly vulnerable to theft and sabotage.


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