human shield

noun

: a person whose body is used as a protection from harm by someone else

The thief tried to use a hostage as a human shield hoping the police would not shoot.

Examples of human shield in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The bad Santas take Sherry as a hostage, though, and use her as a human shield to get by the cops who’ve arrived on the scene. —Mark Meszoros, Twin Cities, 14 Mar. 2025

Trey Howard, who is in the fourth grade, used his body as a human shield to protect his younger sister from incoming debris, his father said. —Stephanie Ramos, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2025

The video, verified by NBC News, has been widely shared online, including by Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied territories, who accused the IDF of using the man as a human shield. —Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 23 June 2024

Statham harpoons you in the leg, snaps your neck, then uses you as a human shield. 10. —Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024

In the hallway, they were engulfed by their supporters, who embraced them, patting their shoulders and forming a kind of human shield to protect them from the eyes and questions of reporters and onlookers. —Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023

Celebrities had flown to Alabama to form a human shield around the marchers, the idea being that surely no one would take a shot at Harry Belafonte. —Michael Wilson, New York Times, 12 July 2023

Rhymes for human shield

• battlefield
• unconcealed
• unrepealed
• unrevealed
• afield
• airfield
• annealed
• appealed
• brownfield
• coalfield
• concealed
• congealed