Example Sentences

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So, if it boils down to a battle of wits between Cohen and Trump, I’d candidly say Trump comes into the battle only half-armed.

From Salon • May 13, 2024

Up to the present this war has been waged between a fully armed Germany and a quarter-or half-armed British Empire.

From Time Magazine Archive

What chance—what shadow of a chance—had those poor, untrained, half-armed farmers at Concord?

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

The rest of the ground was covered by thick masses of half-armed rustics who had flocked at Harold's summons to the fight with the stranger.

From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by Green, John Richard

The army was without cavalry, without waggons for carrying supplies, without an ambulance train--in fact, it was nothing but a half-armed mob.

From No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee by Wood, Stanley L.