How to Use armored in a Sentence

armored

adjective

• Additional armored divisions were deployed to the eastern front.
• Fighting has raged in the streets of the camp, and armored cars are seen patrolling.
  — Majdi Mohammed and Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
• 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
• On the roads along the way, tanks and armored vehicles were left abandoned, had crashed or had broken down.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Ukrainians were told to keep away from Russian soldiers and their armored vehicles, to give them the right of way on the street, and to remain unarmed.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
• 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
• He was issued a Kalashnikov rifle, 120 bullets, an armored vest and a helmet for the assault.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
• Later that day, while breaking for lunch, McCarthy and Reichel watched a trio of armored trucks rumble past.
  — Michael Rubinkam, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2023
• In the videos detailed below, soldiers, armored vehicles and tanks are seen three miles inside Gaza from the north, and two miles inside Gaza from the east.
  — Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2023
• Then, troops and armored vehicles will enter the city to capture and kill Hamas fighters as special forces units search for hostages.
  — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
• Until now, the solution to the tank and armored vehicle threat was the Javelin missile; The solution to the aerial threat was the Stinger missile.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Oct. 2022
• The news agency also showed heavily armed men flanked by armored vehicles shooting what appeared to be tear gas into the the streets.
  — NBC News, 30 Jan. 2025
• The ambivalence of the troubled poet watching an armored column pass over fresh graves is illustrated by a later, lighter anecdote.
  — Robert Pinsky, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2025