How to Use armored in a Sentence

armored

adjective
  • Additional armored divisions were deployed to the eastern front.
  • The offensive was carried out by well-armed rebel troops manning tanks, armored vehicles, and trucks mounted with heavy weapons.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
  • For Northern Irish Catholics, who have their own cultural memory of armored cars and tanks and guns, the parallels are starker still.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Germany has been negotiating with Greece to transfer armored vehicles to Kyiv.
    Ian Lovett, WSJ, 6 June 2022
  • Far from being dinosaurian sideshows, armored dinosaurs were evolutionary success stories.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2022
  • Natalia Zinchenko, 70, had escaped with her 92-year-old mother-in-law, Nadia Dolupan, on the same armored bus.
    Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
  • Bosch, for seven seasons and most of his life, was armored in the power and the might of the state.
    Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2023
  • As the team gears up to rob an armored car, a detective and his partner plan to stop the group's crime.
    Starr Savoy, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Stomping around in armored boots that sound like a mid-'90s Nine Inch Nails rhythm track?
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 23 May 2023
  • Later, the man stands at the back of an armored vehicle while an officer cuts the back of the shirt from neck to waist.
    Maryclaire Dale, Marc Levy, and Michael Rubinkam, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The armored vehicles were held hostage for about two months.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The Kenyans also want their own armored vehicles and do not want to have to share with Haitian cops.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 4 June 2024
  • Eight armored Israeli vehicles drove through the street, the last one shooting from its rear port.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Rolling through downtown Port-au-Prince, the armored convoy came under intense fire in the dark.
    Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The vehicle is lightly armored and weighs just 16 tons.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2023
  • But Russia needs munitions, tanks and armored vehicles — which is where China could step in and change the course of the war.
    Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Bolton was parked nearby, in an armored vehicle known as a Bearcat.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The ankylosaurs were armored dinosaurs with large, bludgeon-like tails.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The soldier wrote that most units have old armored vehicles that are of poor quality and break down.
    Yuliya Chernova, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2022
  • The head is heavily armored, but the rear of the abdomen is a weak point for obvious reasons, there has to be an orifice there.
    Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
  • On April 28 he was killed when a Russian tank scored a direct hit on his armored vehicle.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2022
  • Alexander led his armored warriors up a hill fending off a hail of arrows.
    Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
  • Even a clean pass by a mine plow doesn’t guarantee safe passage for an armored column.
    David Axe, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • McDonald’s left leg was vised between two plates of armored steel.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Much of the country is mired in spring thaw, which turns fields and rural roads into a sea of mud — tough terrain even for armored vehicles.
    Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • He was issued a Kalashnikov rifle, 120 bullets, an armored vest and a helmet for the assault.
    Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Later that day, while breaking for lunch, McCarthy and Reichel watched a trio of armored trucks rumble past.
    Michael Rubinkam, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2023
  • In the videos detailed below, soldiers, armored vehicles and tanks are seen three miles inside Gaza from the north, and two miles inside Gaza from the east.
    Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Then, troops and armored vehicles will enter the city to capture and kill Hamas fighters as special forces units search for hostages.
    Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The attacks also seek to hobble Ukraine's defense industry that is now producing missiles, drones and armored vehicles, among other military assets.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Nov. 2024

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