Vocabulary Word
Word: arsenal
Definition: storage place for military equipment
Definition: storage place for military equipment
Sentences Containing 'arsenal'
These are the Government workshops; for the Rock Island establishment is a national armory and arsenal.
As they drew near the island seemed to lift from the sea, and the air was so clear that they could already distinguish the rocks heaped on one another, like cannon balls in an arsenal, with green bushes and trees growing in the crevices.
``Doubtless, but not in the same way; every one has not black slaves, a princely retinue, an arsenal of weapons that would do credit to an Arabian fortress, horses that cost six thousand francs apiece, and Greek mistresses.''
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