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weapon

[ UK /wˈɛpən/ ]
[ US /ˈwɛpən/ ]
NOUN
  1. any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting
    he was licensed to carry a weapon
  2. a means of persuading or arguing
    he used all his conversational weapons

How To Use weapon In A Sentence

  • One could argue that such a missile defence system would bring about the abandonment of ballistic missiles as strategic weapons.
  • On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
  • The first exhibit was a knife which the prosecution claimed was the murder weapon.
  • IS is said to have used chlorine gas in attacks and built up a substantial chemical weapons cache. The Sun
  • This scenario was as unsubstantial as most of the claims made by campaign groups about the potential danger that anthrax could be easily used as a bio-weapon.
  • A group of mums are using a secret weapon to encourage parents to walk their children to school - pester power.
  • Later it wants to follow up with the heavy stuff: tanks, helicopters, anti-tank weapons and armored personnel carriers.
  • You can upgrade your already present cannon or purchase new weapon types including plasma bolts, lasers, flame-throwers and grenades.
  • They also have abandoned past pledges and now threaten first use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states.
  • Champlain appears to be carrying a light arquebus that Paulin-Desormeaux calls a fusil de chasse, a hunting weapon; ibid., 1:184-93; for a more extended discussion, see below, chapter 12, and Appendix L. Champlain's Dream
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