How to Use armored in a Sentence

armored

adjective
  • Additional armored divisions were deployed to the eastern front.
  • Free of armored men and anchors, the ship slipped over the jagged rocks.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 22 June 2026
  • Snoop Dogg was riding around in an armored truck.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The man in the armored truck and the man guarding the door are not the same person.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 May 2025
  • One of our [armored vehicles] ran over him and killed him.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Fighting has raged in the streets of the camp, and armored cars are seen patrolling.
    — Majdi Mohammed and Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
  • There’s no need to pay for armored cars to haul currency back and forth from the parks.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Cut to an armored woman on horseback with her back to the camera.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 6 June 2026
  • More than mere armored knights, Paladins are forged as holy conduits.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Deputies arrived to find a pair of armored car employees who’d come to pick up cash from the store.
    — Jeff Weiner, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Alexander led his armored warriors up a hill fending off a hail of arrows.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
  • The ankylosaurs were armored dinosaurs with large, bludgeon-like tails.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Even a clean pass by a mine plow doesn’t guarantee safe passage for an armored column.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The armored Stegosaurus sported a flashy array of plates and three-foot-long spikes at the end of its tail.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2021
  • Bolton was parked nearby, in an armored vehicle known as a Bearcat.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Thanks to climate change, the armored animals are making their way up north.
    — Oliver Milman, Wired, 20 Nov. 2021
  • All afternoon and evening, two armored vehicles stood by the bank's front door.
    — Star Tribune, 6 May 2021
  • On the roads along the way, tanks and armored vehicles were left abandoned, had crashed or had broken down.
    — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • The armored inventory is broader than its tank force alone.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
  • 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 officers called for an armored vehicle to assist them at the scene.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2025
  • When the armored vehicle opened fire, everyone in the camps ducked into the holes.
    — Robert Forrant, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Word is that Varang was originally meant to ride an armored ikran instead.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 24 June 2026
  • 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 Army is set to field the first four lasers, mounted to armored vehicles, sometime next year.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Eight armored Israeli vehicles drove through the street, the last one shooting from its rear port.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The Ajax is the British Army’s first new armored vehicle in more than two decades.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2021
  • 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

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