Sentence examples for the howitzers from inspiring English sources
noun
A cannon that combines certain characteristics of guns and mortars. The howitzer delivers projectiles with medium velocities, either by low or high trajectories.
But the howitzers' read-back was good.
"Send your fire mission," the howitzers repeated.
Fearing an ambush, I radioed the howitzers for a fire mission.
They were skilled enough to communicate these plans to the soldiers who would fire the howitzers.
However, once the howitzers had started their bellowing, proletarian internationalism had a marked tendency to evaporate.
As the clock strikes four, a flare goes up, and the howitzers unleash fiery death on the helpless Danes.
The steel barrels of the howitzer guns were visible as shadows, and the plywood door of the howitzer camp was illuminated as if it were bone.
The boys began surreptitiously packing the howitzer with a wadding of golf balls and grass.
They described, factoring in the permutation of variables, where the howitzer rounds might fall.
After a few rounds of this, the lieutenant in charge of the howitzer battery said, "Enough".
When we reached the door of the howitzer camp, he had to knock twice.
