How to Use armed to the teeth in a Sentence

armed to the teeth

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  • These officers — and the rest of the force — were armed to the teeth.
    Dvora Meyers, Longreads, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The ones who are talking the most seriously about it are armed to the teeth.
    Win McCormack, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
  • When society is armed to the teeth, bad things are bound to happen.
    Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
  • There are no machetes, nor compounds ruled by strongmen armed to the teeth.
    Scott Winship, National Review, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Then, the terrorists can claim their caliphate: a bone-white ethnostate, armed to the teeth, that is by, for, and about the master race.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Hutchinson testified that Trump was informed that some of his supporters in Washington, D.C., were armed to the teeth.
    Amber Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2022
  • Trained law enforcement officers armed to the teeth -- people paid by taxpayers to be 'good guys with guns' -- failed at taking out a mass shooter.
    Richard Galant, CNN, 24 July 2022
  • The Ambassador still has his grandfather's diary describing how the Finnish citizens armed to the teeth waited in the forests to attack the invading Russian troops.
    Fox News, 16 May 2022
  • The real Stagecoach Mary was a legendary mail carrier who spent a decade traversing the treacherous Montana territory, armed to the teeth and never missing a day.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021

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