undefended
Example Sentences
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As the home team sprung forward from midfield, Gouri found Mason Greenwood racing through an undefended inside-right channel.
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
Nicias, the peacemaker of 421 B.C., first opposes raiding Sicily because it would leave Athens undefended.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
As the martian interior cooled, leading theories hold, its magnetic field died out, leaving the atmosphere undefended and ending this warm and wet period, when the planet might have hosted life.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 19, 2022
The arch was built a century ago, to commemorate the treaties ending the War of 1812, which established a peaceful, undefended border between the U.S. and Canada.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2021
Yet he could not simply flee the trap: to do so would be to break his trust with the islanders and to leave them to the imminent dragon, undefended.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
