well-defended
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
These would be "a small number of conventionally-armed ballistic missiles over well-defended airspace... and they're quite inaccurate at very long ranges".
From BBC
This kind of conflict might also bring in a range of ‘softer’ and less well-defended targets than the nine U.S. military bases across the Middle East, which together hold an estimated 30,000-40,000 troops, as well as ‘Fortress Israel’.
From Barron's
This kind of conflict might also bring in a range of ‘softer’ and less well-defended targets than the nine U.S. military bases across the Middle East, which together hold an estimated 30,000-40,000 troops, as well as ‘Fortress Israel’.
From Barron's
It could muster only a missile barrage against a well-defended U.S. base in Qatar.
Yet hackers linked to its biggest adversary, Iran, have managed to pull off a series of successful breaches by using known vulnerabilities to attack institutions that aren’t as well-defended as the country’s critical infrastructure.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
