How to Use armored in a Sentence
armored
adjective- Additional armored divisions were deployed to the eastern front.
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Even armored vehicles do not protect against shock waves.
— Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 14 July 2022 -
On April 28 he was killed when a Russian tank scored a direct hit on his armored vehicle.
— Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2022 -
Millions of dollars worth of jewels stolen from armored truck in California.
— Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 18 July 2022 -
Several police cars and at least one armored vehicle were stationed outside, and journalists were being kept well away from the area.
— Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 5 July 2022 -
To ferry people to Bakhmut, the firefighters used a hulking armored vehicle that resembled an off-road bank truck.
— Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022 -
Chainmail was modernized into mesh, while armored metal was rendered into cutout leather paneling.
— Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 28 Oct. 2024 -
Helicopter video from several news stations showed employees and patrons being led out of the building and an armored vehicle in the parking lot.
— Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022 -
Later, officers broke the rear windshield with a wooden projectile fired from an armored vehicle in order to better communicate with him.
— Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel, 14 July 2022 -
On a visit to Pavlivka on Sunday, the commander walked through the wreckage of three Russian armored vehicles by the central square.
— New York Times, 21 July 2022 -
The ministry said these armored vehicles would, in part, replace the Soviet-era tanks that Poland has donated to Ukraine to use in its fight against Russia.
— Brad Lendon, CNN, 27 July 2022 -
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 -
Stomping around in armored boots that sound like a mid-'90s Nine Inch Nails rhythm track?
— Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 23 May 2023 -
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 armored vehicles were held hostage for about two months.
— Craig Hooper, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023 -
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 -
Eight armored Israeli vehicles drove through the street, the last one shooting from its rear port.
— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024 -
Rolling through downtown Port-au-Prince, the armored convoy came under intense fire in the dark.
— Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024 -
The vehicle is lightly armored and weighs just 16 tons.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2023 -
But Russia needs munitions, tanks and armored vehicles — which is where China could step in and change the course of the war.
— Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 21 Feb. 2023 -
Bolton was parked nearby, in an armored vehicle known as a Bearcat.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022 -
The ankylosaurs were armored dinosaurs with large, bludgeon-like tails.
— Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022 -
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 head is heavily armored, but the rear of the abdomen is a weak point for obvious reasons, there has to be an orifice there.
— Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024 -
Alexander led his armored warriors up a hill fending off a hail of arrows.
— Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024 -
Even a clean pass by a mine plow doesn’t guarantee safe passage for an armored column.
— David Axe, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023 -
McDonald’s left leg was vised between two plates of armored steel.
— Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023 -
Much of the country is mired in spring thaw, which turns fields and rural roads into a sea of mud — tough terrain even for armored vehicles.
— Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023 -
The package included rocket and tube artillery ammunition, armored vehicles and a variety of anti-tank weapons, according to a Pentagon press release.
— David Brennan, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2024
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