Example Sentences

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His battalion's attack on the German trench had started well according to Stephen Erskin, curator of the Green Howard's Museum in Richmond, with more than 140 prisoners and two machine-guns captured.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2016

Kobani's defenders, outgunned by the militants, are hoping the arrival of peshmerga forces from Iraqi Kurdistan with badly-needed weapons including cannon and truck-mounted machine-guns will help them turn the tide.

From Reuters • Oct. 31, 2014

If you have no heavy weaponry and face an enemy who has machine-guns, there are only three things you can do.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2014

Ash is equipped with a jet-pack which is also a drill, as well as an arsenal of over-the-top machine-guns, rockets, lasers which steadily grows as the game progresses.

From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2012

A regiment of hussars was 600 strong; and field-artillery, with fifty-six guns, besides machine-guns, extended about a mile and a half along one of the country roads.

From In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by Morse, John