materiel

Example Sentences

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Both sides made outsize investments in men and matériel to take and hold a relatively small and now-devastated city, which had a prewar population of more than 70,000.

From New York Times • May 24, 2023

He was not soliciting matériel for them, he added.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2022

The research team examined the Russian matériel in July at the invitation of the Ukrainian government.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2022

But both pieces of equipment have intricacies that are reminders of the complications that come from supplying a military with foreign matériel.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2022

His list of matériel liberated from the Union Army during the 1862 Shenandoah campaign included “six handkerchiefs, two and three quarter dozen neckties, and one bottle of red ink.”

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson