How to Use unarmored in a Sentence

unarmored

adjective
  • 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
  • And because of this, there's a patchwork of armored and unarmored monitor lizards walking the Earth today.
    — New Atlas, 13 Jan. 2026
  • For one thing, these vehicles are completely unarmored and would not survive enemy artillery fire.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Compared to an unarmored, open-top golf-cart, the Ladoga is much better-suited for mechanized warfare.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Now, Shelton feared, all those satellites overhead had become so many huge, unarmored, billion-dollar sitting ducks.
    — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 26 June 2018
  • 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
  • Ukrainian drone strikes have taken a heavy toll of Russian armor, and are rapidly chewing up the supply of unarmored vehicles.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • This type of warhead is several times more effective against infantry and unarmored vehicles than one which detonates on impact.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The Americans tried to take cover behind their unarmored SUV.
    — CBS News, 5 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
  • When detonated, the bomb’s smooth skin shatters into razor-sharp fragments that can shred human bodies and unarmored vehicles alike.
    — John Ismay, New York Times, 11 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The systems are unarmored, difficult to maneuver and often break down, exposing operators to risk of counterattack.
    — Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 1 July 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 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
  • 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
  • The Russian 9x19mm 7N31 cartridge is specially engineered to defeat modern body armor while maintaining effectiveness against unarmored targets.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Soon after Kherson was liberated in the fall of 2022, Lee began driving to outlying villages in an unarmored Honda Sedan, knocking on doors and visiting health care centers to track down vulnerable residents.
    — Johanna Chisholm, WIRED, 13 July 2023

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