ordnance
Example Sentences
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The rest of us would like to live tolerantly in some form or fashion without using nuclear ordnance on each other.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026
Landmines remain an ongoing risk to Cambodia, and more than a million people continue to work and live on land contaminated by mines and unexploded ordnance, according to the United Nations.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
The department received additional penalties for improperly documenting training, failing to identify and evaluate the hazards of transporting and storing the ordnance, and leaving explosives unattended.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
Instead, one of the men took the ordnance home and either left it in their truck overnight, or brought it into their house, the claim alleges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
Hereupon the president was contented the fort should be palisadoed, the ordnance mounted, his men armed and exercised.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
Vocabulary lists containing ordnance
The Things They Carried
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Life of Pi
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