use ammunition
Frequency: 7.010.0 per million words
To expend ammunition by firing it.
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- The soldiers were instructed to use their ammunition sparingly.
- During the drill, we are only allowed to use blank ammunition.
- The heavy machine gun can use a variety of ammunition types.
- Historically, armies would often use all their ammunition in a single major battle.
- You will need to use special ammunition to penetrate that armor.
- Having used most of their ammunition, the squad had to fall back.
- The commander made the difficult decision to use the last of their artillery ammunition.
- Police were criticized for using live ammunition during the riot.
- How much ammunition was used in the training exercise yesterday?
- The rebels had used so much ammunition that their supplies were critically low.