How to Use unprotected in a Sentence

unprotected

adjective
  • They're planning to build roads over thousands of acres of unprotected land.
  • If your computer is unprotected, you're likely to get a virus.
  • In 2027, the Spurs have their own pick and an unprotected pick from the Hawks.
    Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 29 Jan. 2025
  • And the arms and head of those wearing the aprons goes unprotected.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 3 Nov. 2019
  • The garden is just a few blocks away from the street with the unprotected bike lane.
    Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 18 July 2024
  • What does this mean for the Pride players left unprotected for the draft?
    Mike Gramajo, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2021
  • In the meantime, as long as many of us are unprotected, none of us is safe.
    Susan Goldberg, National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2021
  • No one wants to walk alone at night and feel unprotected.
    Fox News, 18 Sep. 2021
  • And when Archie went to call for help, Eric left the unit unprotected.
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The unprotected gas tank that ruptured near the front door.
    The Courier-Journal, 14 May 2018
  • Would her unprotected feet leave a faint trail of blood across the dining-room floor for the cat to lap up with its clean, pink tongue?
    Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Hornung was one the Packers left unprotected and the Saints grabbed him.
    Rod Walker | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The knights are the epitome of the warrior class, the top of the line in terms of defending the realm, defending the unprotected.
    Nihal Kolur, SI.com, 21 May 2018
  • If they are left unprotected a a team could take them in the Rule 5 Draft in December.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2021
  • My wife rode it maybe fifty yards down the unprotected bike lane on our street in Brooklyn, went over a speed hump, and that was that.
    John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Adding insult to injury was the fact that the adults meant to mentor him left him unprotected and twisting in the wind.
    Angela Helm, The Root, 4 July 2018
  • With so many unprotected adults, the disease roared back in 2016.
    Laura Ungar, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The troops, who fought with the Kurds, had to leave them unprotected, and are now back under less safe conditions.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2019
  • That left her 10-year-old son the only one in the family who was unprotected.
    Sarah Hosseini, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The Suns last week sent an unprotected first-round pick in 2031 to the Utah Jazz in exchange for three first-round picks that likely will be in the bottom third of the first round.
    Barry Jackson and, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The Heat were required, by rule, to exercise the pick, with their 2021 unprotected first-round pick held by the Thunder.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The Mets brought him back for 1983, but left him unprotected on their off-season roster.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2020
  • This leaves him unprotected when the Ghoulies (whom Archie called the cops on during the drag race last season) jump him in the music room and steal his sneakers.
    Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 18 Oct. 2018
  • Bloom decided to leave Ward unprotected while keeping the likes of Kaleb Ort on the 40-man roster.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The deep sea is Earth’s largest habitat and the vast majority of it is unprotected.
    New York Times, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Each team can choose up to five players, and can only take one from any team’s unprotected list.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • That just slightly trails the statewide rate of 58.6% But that still leaves millions of Texans unprotected.
    Michael Williams, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • At stake is some of the last unprotected old-growth forest on the south end of Vancouver Island.
    Lynda V. Mapes, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2021
  • While their feet and ankles are stabilized in the ski boots, the area just above remains unprotected.
    Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 2 Dec. 2022
  • For the grand finale, Schmidt is at center stage against the Caps, who left him unprotected and then tried to reacquire him from Vegas.
    Greg Beacham, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2018

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