weaponless

Example Sentences

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France’s great heroine, described as a liberator on the pedestal of her statue in Meridian Hill Park, has been rendered weaponless.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2018

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

This may be why James Agee, in his famous collaboration with Evans, “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” likened the camera “to unassisted and weaponless consciousness.”

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2017

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