How to Use unprotected in a Sentence

unprotected

adjective
  • They're planning to build roads over thousands of acres of unprotected land.
  • If your computer is unprotected, you're likely to get a virus.
  • The garden is just a few blocks away from the street with the unprotected bike lane.
    Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 18 July 2024
  • What does this mean for the Pride players left unprotected for the draft?
    Mike Gramajo, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2021
  • In the meantime, as long as many of us are unprotected, none of us is safe.
    Susan Goldberg, National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2021
  • No one wants to walk alone at night and feel unprotected.
    Fox News, 18 Sep. 2021
  • And when Archie went to call for help, Eric left the unit unprotected.
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Hornung was one the Packers left unprotected and the Saints grabbed him.
    Rod Walker | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • If they are left unprotected a a team could take them in the Rule 5 Draft in December.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2021
  • My wife rode it maybe fifty yards down the unprotected bike lane on our street in Brooklyn, went over a speed hump, and that was that.
    John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
  • That left her 10-year-old son the only one in the family who was unprotected.
    Sarah Hosseini, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The Heat were required, by rule, to exercise the pick, with their 2021 unprotected first-round pick held by the Thunder.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The Mets brought him back for 1983, but left him unprotected on their off-season roster.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Bloom decided to leave Ward unprotected while keeping the likes of Kaleb Ort on the 40-man roster.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The deep sea is Earth’s largest habitat and the vast majority of it is unprotected.
    New York Times, 22 Nov. 2021
  • That just slightly trails the statewide rate of 58.6% But that still leaves millions of Texans unprotected.
    Michael Williams, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • At stake is some of the last unprotected old-growth forest on the south end of Vancouver Island.
    Lynda V. Mapes, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2021
  • While their feet and ankles are stabilized in the ski boots, the area just above remains unprotected.
    Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 2 Dec. 2022
  • That comes down to this: Are the Heat in a position to give up three first-round picks, at least two unprotected, and mortgage their draft future?
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 July 2022
  • The same rule applies to hot items, like pots or pans—placing them unprotected on the wood surface can leave lasting burn marks.
    Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In other parts of the country, like the arid West, the rates of unprotected waterways are closer to 80% or 90%, Southerland said.
    Beth Burger, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2020
  • The Wolves pick does become unprotected in 2022, but the fact that the Wolves have gone on a mini-run at the end of this season will also damage the value of the pick on the trade market.
    Patrick Murray, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • At the next Hudson crossing, on the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, the view was impressive, but the busy bridge’s bike lane was entirely unprotected.
    New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The Knicks have struggled this season (12-15) so an unprotected pick could easily put you in the lottery but will the Knicks offer that?
    Nat Newell, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Some said another school would worsen traffic, the site was too small for the plan, and unprotected commuter rail tracks near the school posed a risk to students.
    Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2022
  • But at this rate, that could still leave hundreds of millions of Windows 10 PCs unprotected.
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Whitlock had Tommy John surgery later that month, didn’t pitch at all last year, and was left unprotected by the Yankees.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The district court concluded that his speech was unprotected by the First Amendment.
    Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Players with player or team options in their contracts were fair game to be left unprotected, too.
    Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The new advice is to test anyone with a significant bird flu exposure, such as an unprotected worker who’s been splashed in the face with raw milk on a dairy farm with known H5N1 infections in the herds.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024

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