artillery - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • fire: Their brigade artillery fired on the German trenches with orders to land a shell every twenty yards.
  • pound: Allied artillery pounded German lines for a week beforehand, firing 1.6million shells.

Adjective modifier

  • long-range: Seoul, near the border, is vulnerable to long-range artillery.
  • divisional: With four artillery battalions under a divisional artillery HQ element, you basically had a regiment anyway!
  • heavy: For example his four fire missions of heavy artillery didn't managed to affect any of my stands!
  • Serb: NATO launched its air strikes in early September following the shelling of Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb artillery.
  • German: German medium artillery shelled the area during the relief.
  • coastal: Coastal artillery was already controlled from a plotting room inside the fort.

Modifies a noun

  • barrage: On July 18th 1917, a heavy artillery barrage was launched at the German lines.
  • bombardment: To pre-empt the attack, the Russians launched a massive artillery bombardment at 02.00 on July 5 th.
  • shell: During the bombing of Pearl Harbor a stray artillery shell exploded in a room full of students.
  • spammage: An alternative way to reduce the amount of artillery spammage could be to increase the time needed to recharge the Field Op's bar.
  • regiment: On the 1st of May 1849 he was promoted to Leutnant in the 5th artillery regiment taking over command of a battery.
  • fortification: He chose for its site an area in which English troops had built an artillery fortification during their occupation of the area in 1548.

Noun used with modifier

  • antiaircraft: Both locations have a history of Iraqi antiaircraft artillery firing on coalition jets.
  • antiaircraft: American antiaircraft artillery met the challenge by destroying more than 300 enemy aircraft.
  • anti-tank: These forts used anti-tank artillery and rifles to halt the tanks and machine gun fire to annihilate the accompanying infantry.
  • fortress: This could lend weight to the idea that the French Army had maintained some of the fortress artillery in the fifties.
  • siege: They were mounted on ships and used as coastal batteries and also siege artillery.
  • enemy: There was practically no enemy artillery fire; only an occasional shell from a long distance.

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