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Submunitions in a sentence
Submunitions meaning
plural of submunition
Using Submunitions
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of submunition
- In the example corpus, submunitions often appears in combinations such as: submunitions over, multiple submunitions, of submunitions.
Context around Submunitions
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Submunitions
- In this selection, "submunitions" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, multiple, contain and small stand out and add context to how "submunitions" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include bombs contain submunitions and are and carry multiple submunitions each capable. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "submunitions" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with submunitions
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Cluster munitions burst mid-flight, scattering explosive submunitions over a wide area. (12 words)
The detonations of multiple submunitions also started a fire that destroyed three cars. (13 words)
Such bombs contain submunitions and are designed as anti-personnel weapons meant to scatter small submunitions over a large area. (20 words)
She said that a number of submunitions did not explode and that people in the neighborhood covered them with sand from the children’s playground until emergency responders came the next day to secure and remove them. (37 words)
In addition, the weapon must fit in a 155-millimeter artillery projectile, with the eventual goal of shrinking the weapon’s size so that a single shell can carry multiple submunitions, each capable of creating electronic havoc. (37 words)
In the 1950s and early 1960s, chemical artillery rockets and cluster bombs contained a multitude of submunitions, so that a large number of small clouds of the chemical agent would form directly on the target. (35 words)
Example sentences (9)
Such bombs contain submunitions and are designed as anti-personnel weapons meant to scatter small submunitions over a large area.
Cluster munitions burst mid-flight, scattering explosive submunitions over a wide area.
Scattered submunitions often strike shepherds and scrap metal collectors, a common post-conflict source of livelihood, said Loren Persi, one of the editors of the Cluster Munition Coalition’s annual report.
The detonations of multiple submunitions also started a fire that destroyed three cars.
Delivered by artillery, rockets, missiles, and aircraft, cluster munitions open in mid-air to disperse multiple submunitions over an area the size of several city blocks.
Human Rights Watch observed hundreds of the distinctive impacts of M095 submunitions as well as remnants of the pink-colored nylon stabilization ribbons in three neighborhoods in Stepanakert.
She said that a number of submunitions did not explode and that people in the neighborhood covered them with sand from the children’s playground until emergency responders came the next day to secure and remove them.
In addition, the weapon must fit in a 155-millimeter artillery projectile, with the eventual goal of shrinking the weapon’s size so that a single shell can carry multiple submunitions, each capable of creating electronic havoc.
In the 1950s and early 1960s, chemical artillery rockets and cluster bombs contained a multitude of submunitions, so that a large number of small clouds of the chemical agent would form directly on the target.
Common combinations with submunitions
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- submunitions over 3×
- multiple submunitions 3×
- of submunitions 3×