unarmed
Example Sentences
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Many observers have professed confusion over how Good, an unarmed person, can somehow be seen as a mortal threat.
From Salon
U.S. cyber and intelligence can help with “leveling the battlefield for unarmed civilians facing an armed regime,” he writes.
Under state law, such weapons are not considered deadly, and a person carrying them is considered unarmed; but department officials argued that they are “visually indistinguishable from real firearms in rapidly escalating situations.”
From Los Angeles Times
Criticized by Yankee pacifists for resorting to violence, Clay replied, “how then can you ask me to go unarmed and yet manfully vindicate those doctrines which every where have been denounced with death?”
Troops were initially unarmed when they were sent to Washington and also weren’t permitted to have weapons in their vehicles.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
