armor

Example Sentences

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The oversize blazers conjured up armor for the streets, as in, we’re outside taking care of business.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

In other words, colonies that invest less in thick armor may be able to support more workers, potentially allowing them to grow larger and diversify more successfully.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

Even Maekar’s political analysis cracks when confronted with the visual of Baelor standing in the mud with borrowed armor, fighting off Duncan’s foes, and of the assembled commons cheering for the hedge knight.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

Kathleen Coleman, renowned Harvard classicist, points to the words of the Roman poet Martial, who makes reference to Mars and Venus both in armor and women in the arena.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

It was wearing a shredded rubakha, dingy and rusty and matted to the thing’s body with some kind of metallic bands like frail armor.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack