[
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
- IS is said to have used chlorine gas in attacks and built up a substantial chemical weapons cache. The Sun
- 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.
- A shame since it includes the weapons, sabotage devices and other inventions which undoubtedly frustrated the German forces.
- Frank will have access to 18 separate weapons, ranging from pistols and rifles to submachine guns and shotguns.
- He goes on to talk about the Pentagon's ongoing, undebated plans not only to keep bleeding our treasury in Iraq (and, I would add, Afghanistan), but also to keep spending billions to design and build Cold War-era weapons "that lack not only a current military need but even a plausible use in any foreseeable future. Robert Koehler: Cross of Irony
- 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.