How to Use unarmored in a Sentence

unarmored

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• The bomblets, each with the explosive power of a hand grenade, are deadly against ground troops and unarmored vehicles such as supply trucks.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2020
• The team reportedly was in unarmored trucks when the ambush occurred on a return route from the capital city of Niamey.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2018
• The Americans tried to take cover behind their unarmored SUV.
  — CBS News, 5 Mar. 2018
• Most of the French knights at Poitiers—heeding the lessons of Crécy, where their unarmored horses were felled by the enemy’s longbowmen—fought dismounted.
  — Stephen Brumwell, WSJ, 6 June 2018
• On May 19, about 60 officers and soldiers had boarded unarmored buses bound for Palmyra, with flak jackets but no weapons.
  — Anne Barnard and Hwaida Saad, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2016
• The tractor rig with an unarmored trailer reportedly left a Sacramento loading site about 7:30 on a rainy evening.
  — Cathy Locke, sacbee, 24 Aug. 2017
• This prioritized using the main gun against enemy tanks, while trucks, infantry, and other unarmored targets would be engaged by the tank’s machine guns.
  — Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2023
• The automaker claims the interior is as equally as luxurious as the unarmored S-Class, though the Guard does not sport the sliding sunroof for obvious reasons.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2021
• Now, Shelton feared, all those satellites overhead had become so many huge, unarmored, billion-dollar sitting ducks.
  — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 26 June 2018
• Several anti-fascist medics, dressed in black and wearing body armor, walked over and quietly put themselves between the unarmored counterprotesters and the Proud Boys.
  — Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2021
• That meant traveling dangerous roads in an unarmored S.U.V. to meet armed men with questionable allegiances.
  — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2019
• For one thing, these vehicles are completely unarmored and would not survive enemy artillery fire.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2018
• Elements of the aid may have other uses, and some parts, such as the MRAPs, may not be ideal for close combat because of their high silhouette and visibility, but are better than the alternative of unarmored trucks.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2022
• Elements of the aid may have other uses, and some parts, such as the MRAPs, may not be ideal for close combat because of their high silhouette and visibility, but are better than the alternative of unarmored trucks.
  — Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2022
• Supply vehicles were sometimes left on their own, even after the Ukrainian military advised citizens on social media to attack unarmored fuel trucks.
  — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2022
• The systems are unarmored, difficult to maneuver and often break down, exposing operators to risk of counterattack.
  — Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 1 July 2022
• That would explain why the Americans, who were traveling in unarmored vehicles with Nigerien counterparts, lacked access to medical support and had no immediate air cover, although Mattis said French aircraft were called to the scene quickly.
  — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024