How to Use armor in a Sentence

armor

noun
  • The shots penetrated the tank's armor.
  • The armadillo's armor consists of a series of small, bony plates.
  • The officers are required to wear bulletproof body armor.
  • After being gifted a set of armor, she was sent to Orléans.
    Tacita Quinn, CNN, 15 Oct. 2024
  • That’s assuming Riri Williams completes her first armor in the movie.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 10 Aug. 2022
  • It’s this armor of indifference, of not caring, of not having emotions that could be hurt.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 8 Aug. 2022
  • But, again, that wouldn’t have been a successful way to win, per Infinity War’s plot armor.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 9 Aug. 2022
  • In June of 1942, Biden, Sr., helped equip three vessels with plastic armor.
    Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Last week a man wearing body armor and armed with an assault rifle and a nail gun tried to breach the FBI's Cincinnati office.
    David Klepper, ajc, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Social media video from inside the area shows gangs using a bulldozer covered with steel plates to act as armor demolishing homes, presumably those of rivals.
    Nick Paton Walsh, Natalie Gallón, CNN, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Or perhaps Zendaya showing up to the 2018 Met Gala dressed in Versace armor rings a bell?
    Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2024
  • More glaive exotic armor interaction is coming, but no specifics like Wormgods or Winter’s Guile were promised.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The slightest crack in the door, the slightest chink in the armor.
    Danielle Pergament, Allure, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Then, the men walk around the tank, patting its chunky green armor.
    Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Like, that’s sort of her armor and her way to survive in life.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
  • The idea was to demonstrate the new system, called Kavach, or armor.
    Alex Travelli, New York Times, 4 June 2023
  • Sir, the police dog, was wearing body armor but was hit by the shot.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But the new silos will be closer to the surface and will have less armor.
    Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The next day, an armed man clad in body armor sought to breach the FBI's field office in Cincinnati.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
  • The next day, an armed man clad in body armor sought to breach the FBI’s field office in Cincinnati.
    Anchorage Daily News, 20 Aug. 2022
  • There are swords with their sheaths and small brass cannons and armor made with carabao horns.
    Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Black horse-braid knots ran up and down her arms like the suckers of a cephalopod, or spikes of armor.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
  • According to a statement from the Suns, the turquoise uniforms will serve as the team’s suit of armor.
    Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2022
  • And that this time, there will be no armed leftists in body armor to stop what happens.
    Will Carless, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The steel armor along its frontal arc is just 70 millimeters thick.
    David Axe, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • Everyone keeps looking for a hole in the Black and Gold armor, but there isn’t one.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Santana, whose game face is a thing of beauty and armor, makes her way toward the men.
    Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
  • But getting a laser to punch through the armor of a tank is a distinct and challenging task.
    Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 2 May 2023
  • Deputies discovered body armor, $5,000 in cash, nine guns of which some were stolen and drugs.
    Elizabeth Heckman, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Adorn a suit of armor and vanquish someone else dressed as a dragon, that sort of thing.
    Longreads, 16 Sep. 2022

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