8 sentences with 'batteries'
Example sentences and phrases with the word batteries and other words derived from it.
• « Behind the trenches were artillery batteries, capable of launching huge shells for miles, and further back still the command posts of senior officers futilely devising new variations on a constant theme: desperate assaults on the enemy's impregnable position. »
• « In addition to the British Royal Air Force, the British had numerous anti-aircraft gun batteries that inflicted significant losses on the Luftwaffe. »
• « As a result, Castro and Nikita Khrushchev agreed to install missile batteries in Cuba, both to deter a possible future US invasion and to redress the superiority of US missile deployments. »
• « Nikita Khrushchev was eager to establish a military presence in the Western Hemisphere, especially since the US had already installed missile batteries in its allied nations of Italy and Turkey within striking distance of the USSR. »
• « "We go for days without telephone service, electricity, radio batteries, heat or water. Don't ask me how we get the paper out in these conditions," he says. »
• « Only one of the torches he had was working, but he left it off so as not to waste the batteries. »
• « The batteries are mounted on rails that allow them to be moved according to the balance requirements of this tourist submarine. »