unarmoured
IPA: ʌnˈɑrmɝd
adjective
- Without armour. Often used to describe people, things, or situations where armour would normally be encountered.
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Examples of "unarmoured" in Sentences
- Ask the maimed and crippled survivors of attacks on unarmoured Land Rovers in Afghanistan.
- William Marshal, for instance, did not stop being a knight when caught unarmoured and on foot.
- This chap and his mate armed with a Glock each, driving an unarmoured car, decided upon seeing this, that a tactical retreat was required and chose not to arrest.
- Yours flicks back up into his face ... not the most powerful cut in the world, but this style is unarmoured and a sharp edge in the cheek or jaw is going to leave more than a scar.
- Hermit crabs are unusual in that the abdomen is asymmetrical (to fit into the empty mollusc shell which is its house), and soft and unarmoured (because the mollusc shell provides protection).
- So we send our people to their deaths in unarmoured motor boats and then have the Secretary of State weep in his cups about "the sacrifice made by the brave men and women of our armed forces."
- Yeah, in defiance of the hoariest cliche in the Big Bumper Book of Onscreen Melodramatic Cliches, have your characters wander into the House of DeathFilled WithPossible Anomaly Monsters, unarmoured, unarmed etc etc.
- Furthermore, the bulk of soldiers over term have been killed while riding in unarmoured or lightly armoured vehicles, including three soldiers in British military Land Rovers (including the incident illustrated above).
- An ordinary draw weight bow say 50 lb or so will kill an animal or an unarmoured man; a bodkin point with the same can kill a man in mail; but when plate armour appears on the scene you need a much higher draw weight bow to penetrate it, and consequently more powerful bows and the archers to go with them are needed.
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