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.
• And the arms and head of those wearing the aprons goes unprotected.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• That comes down to this: Are the Heat in a position to give up three first-round picks, at least two unprotected, and mortgage their draft future?
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 July 2022
• An out of position child is an unprotected child and can be ejected from the seat during a crash.
  — Daniela Porat, ProPublica, 6 Feb. 2020
• The same rule applies to hot items, like pots or pans—placing them unprotected on the wood surface can leave lasting burn marks.
  — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 22 Feb. 2023
• In other parts of the country, like the arid West, the rates of unprotected waterways are closer to 80% or 90%, Southerland said.
  — Beth Burger, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2020
• There is no cure for polio, and someone who’s unprotected could be left paralyzed for the rest of their life.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
• Right now, teachers are unprotected, and that’s not a good feeling.
  — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2020
• That stretch now has four lanes for cars, two parking lanes, two unprotected bike lanes and a median strip.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024
• As the drones streamed video, the 19-ton Stryker accelerated across the field, turning sharply to line up on Russian soldiers caught unprotected in the snow.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 27 Jan 2025