weapon
noun
any instrument or device for use in attack or defense in combat, fighting, or war, as a sword, rifle, or cannon.
weaponless
-
a word derived from
weapon.
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
“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
The cop wasn’t a security guard, the weaponless kind with the iron-on badges.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
