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UK
/wˈɛpən/
]
[ US /ˈwɛpən/ ]
[ US /ˈwɛpən/ ]
NOUN
-
any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting
he was licensed to carry a weapon -
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