materiel

Example Sentences

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In testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, he said, “I am very confident that we have delivered the matériel that they need and we’ll continue a pipeline to sustain their operations as well.”

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023

Those wars have often turned, perhaps more than any other factor, on industrial attrition, as each side strains to maintain the flow of matériel like tanks and antiaircraft munitions that keep it in the fight.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2023

He was not soliciting matériel for them, he added.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2022

Russia has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into its military, producing under the State Armament Program a stream of new airplanes, tanks, helicopters and other matériel.

From New York Times • May 16, 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