Below you will find example sentences with "conventional weapons". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Conventional Weapons in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: weapons
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 26.9 words

Words in this phrase

conventional weapons

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • conventional can mean: Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour. Frequent word
  • weapons can mean: plural of weapon Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 1 start, 7 middle, 12 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

and not conventional weapons is not 1× area of conventional weapons especially landmines 1× by a conventional weapons system either 1× chemical or conventional weapons relative to 1× civilians with conventional weapons 1× conflict with conventional weapons 1× continue developing conventional weapons even if 1× convention on conventional weapons 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

biological weapons allow 1× but to put 1× colangelo argued that 1× communities living around 1× definition chemical warfare 1× how many counties 1×

Common sentence endings:

with conventional weapons 3× of conventional weapons 2× anti tank missile 1× any explosive force 1× development and storage 1× in contemporary conflicts 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

nuclear 7× chemical 4× cost 3× use 2× loss 2× powerful 2× security 2× bombing 2× times 2× level 2× far 2× development 2×

Related phrases

nuclear weapons chemical weapons conventional wisdom

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around weapons:

nuclear weapons 20× chemical weapons 20×

Just before it in the phrase index:

convention centre convention center convenience stores controversy surrounding controversial plans controlled substances

Just after it in the phrase index:

conventional wisdom conversion rate conversion rates conversion therapy convert annually convert tall

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

conventional wisdom

Same ending:

nuclear weapons chemical weapons

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "conventional weapons" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 26.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and not conventional weapons is not, area of conventional weapons especially landmines, nuclear, chemical and cost stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, conventional wisdom, nuclear weapons and chemical weapons, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with conventional weapons

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Nuclear weapons are not just more powerful conventional weapons. (9 words)

The Russian imperial invasion ofUkraine is a real conflict with conventional weapons. (12 words)

How many counties has North Korea bombed with nuclear or conventional weapons in recent years? (15 words)

Longer example sentences

If you are not in a very thin-skinned vehicle, such as an MT-LB or BMP1 or some other kind of crap tin, it just immobilizes the vehicle and then it needs to be finished off by a conventional weapons system, either artillery or an anti tank missile. (49 words)

Israel properly has enacted laws to bar entry of BDS activists under the circumstances present here, and it has every right to protect its borders against those activists in the same manner as it would bar entrants with more conventional weapons. (41 words)

Communities living around the bases often experience high levels of rapes committed by foreign soldiers, violent crimes, loss of land or livelihood, and pollution and health hazards caused by the testing of conventional or non-conventional weapons. (37 words)

Question examples

How many counties has North Korea bombed with nuclear or conventional weapons in recent years? (15 words)

Example sentences (20)

Colangelo argued that whenever conventional weapons can be used instead of nuclear weapons, conventional weapons are the best alternative.

Definition Chemical warfare is different from the use of conventional weapons or nuclear weapons because the destructive effects of chemical weapons are not primarily due to any explosive force.

Communities living around the bases often experience high levels of rapes committed by foreign soldiers, violent crimes, loss of land or livelihood, and pollution and health hazards caused by the testing of conventional or non-conventional weapons.

Nuclear weapons are not just more powerful conventional weapons.

We reiterate that discussions on fundamental ethical, human rights, peace and security, proliferation and other concerns raised by autonomous weapons systems do not need to be limited to the confines of the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

In fact, really that was more of a revenge bombing, they firebombed that city and killed two or three times as many people with conventional weapons as they did with the atomic weapons.

Nuclear weapons, on the other hand, are easily a thousand times more powerful than conventional weapons.

For us, only mentioning the use of chemical weapons and not conventional weapons is not the right approach.

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Biological weapons allow for the potential to create a level of destruction and loss of life far in excess of nuclear, chemical or conventional weapons, relative to their mass and cost of development and storage.

It also promotes disarmament efforts in the area of conventional weapons, especially landmines and small arms, which are often the weapons of choice in contemporary conflicts.

The weapons that the player could obtain in the game ranged from near-future equivalents of present-day conventional weapons to experimental devices that required power in order to operate.

Ukraine ratified the treaty in 1994, and by 1996 the country became free of nuclear weapons. citation Ukraine took consistent steps toward reduction of conventional weapons.

If you are not in a very thin-skinned vehicle, such as an MT-LB or BMP1 or some other kind of crap tin, it just immobilizes the vehicle and then it needs to be finished off by a conventional weapons system, either artillery or an anti tank missile.

The Russian imperial invasion ofUkraine is a real conflict with conventional weapons.

But to put things in perspective, they had been bombing Tokyo, killing 100,000 civilians with conventional weapons.

In Bahrain, the level of sophistication for IED increased dramatically after 2013, when security forces started to intercept ships carrying readymade bomb components among supplies of conventional weapons.

Israel properly has enacted laws to bar entry of BDS activists under the circumstances present here, and it has every right to protect its borders against those activists in the same manner as it would bar entrants with more conventional weapons.

Sept. 4 (UPI) -- A pro-Pyongyang newspaper in Japan says North Korea is likely to continue developing conventional weapons even if it resumes denuclearization talks.

How many counties has North Korea bombed with nuclear or conventional weapons in recent years?

The capital and expertise necessary for such a development initiative would be substantial, but their cost would be far less than the trillions of dollars that a war would cost, even one fought with conventional weapons.

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