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 bad news was that it wrenched out of my hand when the giant turned, and I was thrown across the arena, weaponless.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan