howitzer
Example Sentences
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European nations have supplied Ukraine with 11 different types of howitzer firing one caliber, the 155mm shell.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
It’s not a surprise that the M777 howitzer was featured in a celebration of the Marine Corps.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025
The demonstration was the largest in a decade in the continental US, the Marines said, and involved fighter jets, Navy vessels, helicopters and live fire from a towed howitzer.
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025
To the layman, a self-propelled howitzer looks like a tank, but it has a bigger, 155mm gun to fire at longer range.
From Salon • May 19, 2024
Behind me was an enormous cement mixer on wheels, its big howitzer revolving as it proceeded.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
