Sample sentences for ORDNANCE - verbalworkout.com

(click/touch triangles for details)

Definition

military supplies — especially disposable items such as ammunition and bombs

A bomb hit the ordnance truck, sending it into the air in thousands of pieces.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

ordnance = military supplies

Men stood in a solemn circle around a couple of seats and twisted metal, all that was left of the ordnance truck.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

ordnance = military supplies

Three men crawled under the ordnance truck; another flung himself into a garbage pit.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

ordnance = military supplies

Herman Scearce, Deasy's radioman, leapt into a trench next to an ordnance truck, joining five of his crew-mates.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

ordnance = military supplies

Martin Cohn, an ordnance officer on Oahu, was once in a radar shack as a lost plane, unequipped with radar, tried to find the island.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

ordnance = military supplies

] [Exeunt, bearing off the dead bodies; after the which a peal of ordnance is shot off.
William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
It had been a long time since I had heard the Bear in top form, using his spectacular voice like a weapon requisitioned from ordnance.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
Another blast as the ordnance in the magazine continues to detonate.
Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
But when I was a corporal, I was assistant to the Ordnance & Armor sergeant.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford for its centre.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The shield was heavier than I would have liked, but do soldiers ever get to choose their ordnance?
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
The skimmer lurched sideways, struck an escalator with a dozen cowering civilians on it, and tumbled in a mass of twisting metal and exploding ordnance.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
He had mounted Doramin's old ordnance on the top of that hill; two rusty iron 7-pounders, a lot of small brass cannon—currency cannon.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
They haven't passed out ordnance.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
Now the crater briefly came alive with ordnance.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
They were all proper Ordnance Survey maps.
Mal Peet -- Tamar
The piece of ordnance referred to, was mounted in a separate fortress, constructed of lattice-work.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
Shoes and clothing for the army were scarce, ordnance supplies and drugs were scarcer.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
Have I not heard great ordnance in the field, And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies?
William Shakespeare -- The Taming of the Shrew
Distant grumbling of thunder or ordnance or both.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See

Dictionary / pronunciation — Google^®Dictionary list — Onelook.com^®

Search for other examples by interest

Interest — Source