How to Use heavy artillery in a Sentence

heavy artillery

noun
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  • For the first live performance of Utopia, Scott went big and unleashed his heavy artillery.
    — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The Ukraine war has been fought largely on the ground in the past two years, with troops often locked in back-and-forth battles with heavy artillery and drone support.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Popovich, 34, said his unit was caught in heavy artillery fire a few weeks ago that lasted for two hours, but Ukrainian forces were unable to counter.
    — Daryna Mayer, NBC News, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The sound of heavy artillery exploding is a constant background to life in the villages beyond.
    — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • As heavy artillery rained from the sky, militants went door-to-door to find targets and shoot at unarmed civilians.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • They were met with heavy artillery and mortar fire and bogged down after several hours of fighting.
    — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2023
  • In late June, amid heavy artillery fire and intense urban fighting, Russia took the major city of Sievierodonetsk.
    — Hope Hodge Seck, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Yet, even in the face of heavy artillery and indiscriminate air strikes, under-armed rebels have consistently been able to hold on to large swaths of cities.
    — Michael Jackson, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2016
  • Its front lines are close together and barraged with heavy artillery, and rotations from the front line are infrequent.
    — Text By Ellen Barry, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • This month, heavy artillery bombardments from across the border in Russia announced the latest attack.
    — Andrew E. Kramer Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • The Russians bombard Ukrainian positions with heavy artillery from miles away and send small bands of soldiers to try to infiltrate Ukrainian trenches in the dark of night.
    — Tyler Hicks Marc Santora, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Denmark has no heavy artillery, submarines or air-defense systems.
    — Max Colchester, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023
  • To advance, Ukraine’s military has engaged in cat-and-mouse efforts to find openings and weak spots where smaller units can slip in, hit targets and roll out, while heavy artillery pops off from farther away.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
  • Russia was using an advantage in heavy artillery to grind down Ukrainian positions, inching forward a few feet at a time.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
  • France, the next biggest spender, has fewer than 90 heavy artillery pieces, equivalent to what Russia loses roughly every month on the Ukraine battlefield.
    — Max Colchester, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023
  • These tools are the heavy artillery, the sophisticated devices painstakingly crafted to protect us from crooks, demagogues, and would-be tyrants.
    — Kermit Roosevelt Iii, TIME, 31 May 2024
  • All that said, feels like a couple dozen guys from Kansas City with heavy artillery could overtake this idyllic hamlet and ruin it incredibly quickly.
    — Kyle Orland & Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Residents in Gaza City said the fighting intensified overnight into Wednesday, with gunfire, heavy artillery and airstrikes.
    — Josef Federman, arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2023
  • YouTube footage shows marshals with heavy artillery and bulletproof vests taking positions around NoHo Printing and on nearby rooftops.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • And rather than withdraw, Russian forces held their positions even under heavy artillery bombardment, meaning the Ukrainians would have to engage in close combat with small arms to advance.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • One of the heavy artillery pieces in the battle to restore the separation of powers as designed by our Constitution is the nondelegation doctrine.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024
  • As the ground battles intensified, heavy artillery like the M777 played an increasingly decisive role.
    — Hope Hodge Seck, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The Trump campaign brought out heavy artillery to try to discredit another female employee who filed a federal lawsuit in February 2019.
    — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 23 May 2024
  • Also on Tuesday, at least three civilians were killed and 43 others were wounded by the latest Russian attacks involving drones, gliding bombs and heavy artillery, Ukraine’s presidential office said.
    — Hanna Arhirova, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Mark Kelly Ukraine’s troops are using both old-fashioned heavy artillery and commercial products such as drones with grenades attached to them, directed via Starlink’s satellite internet service.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Also Tuesday, at least three civilians were killed and 43 others were wounded by the latest Russian attacks involving drones, gliding bombs and heavy artillery, Ukraine’s presidential office said.
    — Hanna Arhirova, ajc, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Residents said clashes involving heavy artillery began again around 11 a.m.
    — Hafiz Haroun, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Accounts from Ukrainian soldiers fighting inside the city indicated that Russian troops had concentrated their efforts on advancing through the city center by using heavy artillery and aerial bombardment, demolishing resistance block by block.
    — Carlotta Gall, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023

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