armor

Example Sentences

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The oversize blazers conjured up armor for the streets, as in, we’re outside taking care of business.

From Los Angeles Times

So even when the 60-year-old chief of staff of Benin’s army came to in the back of an armored vehicle, he still wasn’t sure why all this was happening to him.

From The Wall Street Journal

Because producing it requires nitrogen and other minerals, thicker armor represents a larger resource investment for each individual ant.

From Science Daily

Mr. Gallagher served as an armored cavalry officer in Iraq and is the author of the novel “Daybreak.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Previously, Athenian military enterprise had depended on a small elite, men wealthy enough to provide horses to serve as cavalry or to equip themselves as hoplites, a type of armored infantry.

From The Wall Street Journal