vulnerable

Example Sentences

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Even cargo vessels under naval protection can be vulnerable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

London looks vulnerable, with its City airport already reducing flights.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

She typically acts unbothered, but on this vulnerable track, she sheds a little light on her lover girl personality as she romanticizes all the ways she wants to build a life with a new man.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Again, not a word about the coercive therapeutic context in which vulnerable minors will be subjected to those “ideas” and pressed to implement them.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

Mr. Richardson was suddenly keenly conscious of Mirabelle, of the immense weight of the complicated world on this one tiny, vulnerable person.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng