weaponless

Example Sentences

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After all of his dominance this season, Djokovic seemed suddenly weaponless and defensive against Medvedev’s ability to consistently brush the lines with big rolling shots.

From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2021

Although currently weaponless, the Sea Hunter, which can navigate autonomously, is a “fighting ship,” Work said, part of the Navy’s future “human-machine collaborative battle fleet.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2018

“My thighs look as though they’ve been attacked by an enraged but weaponless toddler,” she writes after a day of garlic picking.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2012

Of all the ways I thought I might die in Baghdad, I thought, who knew it would be weaponless in the slowest car chase in history?

From Time • Oct. 11, 2010

Lord Asriel stood back to let it open, and then stepped in again, showing his open, weaponless hands, turning his head a little to let the moonlight fall clearly on his face.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman