How to Use ordnance in a Sentence

ordnance

noun
Definition of ordnancenext
Synonyms for ordnancenext
  • The company was outfitted with 50-millimeter ordnance.
  • And at home, the land became littered with ordnance, the sea with spills of heavy oil.
    — Damien Cave, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • As a rule of thumb, the U.N. assumes that ten per cent of ordnance fail to function.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
  • Her grandfather died that day, not from the ordnance but from the shock that followed.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Still the war ground on, and he was sent to Vietnam as an ordnance officer.
    — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
  • From there, the long-range planes have launched days-long flights to drop ordnance on Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
    — Scott Canon, kansascity, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Another change in the ordnance would have ended what’s known as gate fees.
    — Christopher Harress | [email protected], al.com, 17 June 2019
  • And the Sumy region in the north was hit with more than 100 pieces of ordnance Thursday night, according to the governor.
    — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The grenade in the shadow box was inert, but the other was believed to be a live military ordnance.
    — USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Both the rebels and the regime violated the terms of the truce, lobbing ordnance and explosive drones at each other.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The squadron’s ordnance handlers interpreted it to mean the cable should not be plugged in until the plane was parked on a flight deck.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2023
  • Even when combat ends in Ukraine's fields and towns, danger still lurks in the form of mines and unexploded ordnance.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The Neue Suedtiroler Tageszeitung identified the ordnance as an aerial bomb.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2019
  • In that time, more than eighteen million hours of labour produced some billion pounds of ordnance.
    — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019
  • She was concerned the ordnance maintainers would be rushed to complete the turnaround.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Most ordnance handlers understood that to mean it should not be plugged in until the plane was lined up on the catapult, ready to launch.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2023
  • And aid groups had warned that the jungles of Kayah were now littered with unexploded ordnance.
    — Yan Naing, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
  • On a visit on Thursday, ordnance whizzed, thumped and boomed in all directions.
    — New York Times, 5 May 2022
  • From the ground around the command post protruded the fins of unexploded ordnance.
    — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • For more than eight months, Zelenyi Hai, in Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv region, was close to the front line, and its potato and onion fields were sown with ordnance.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Before any of that can happen, the Army would need to clean up unexploded ordnance from its tests, which could be costly and take a while.
    — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 3 July 2018
  • As such, crews will need to safely clear the area of any unexploded ordnances before opening it up to the public.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
  • First responders weren't able to access the lot because there was still a significant amount of ordnance on the ground.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2021
  • In the following days, Japanese sorties rained ordnance on the port.
    — Peter Eisner, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
  • In the following days, Japanese sorties rained ordnance on the port.
    — Peter Eisner, Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Hikers are warned to stay on the trails in case unexploded ordnance remains.
    — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement that the episode was caused by the explosion of stockpiled ordnance for warplanes at the base.
    — Christiaan Triebert, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The bomb squad secured the ordnance in a containment vessel and disposed of it in a secure location.
    — Julian Gill, Houston Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Authorities are asking beachgoers to be careful; as many as 30 percent of the ordnances may still be live.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2024
  • Trevor Ball, who was a senior explosive ordnance disposal team member in the US Army, agreed that the images likely showed part of the fin of a small-diameter bomb.
    — Abeer Salman, CNN, 15 July 2024

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