materiel

Example Sentences

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Both sides made outsize investments in men and matériel to take and hold a relatively small and now-devastated city, which had a prewar population of more than 70,000.

From New York Times • May 24, 2023

But some of the cards may unintentionally tip the hand of states that have tried to be opaque about the matériel they are sending.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2023

Japan, which has forsworn combat since the end of World War II, had not sent military matériel to another country in the midst of fighting a war in more than 75 years.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2022

The amount of matériel arriving in Ukraine remains a secret, but officials say that the overall flow is very large and has made an enormous difference to the war.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2022

His list of matériel liberated from the Union Army during the 1862 Shenandoah campaign included “six handkerchiefs, two and three quarter dozen neckties, and one bottle of red ink.”

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson