How to Use undefended in a Sentence

undefended

adjective
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  • Eller drove to the net undefended, and scored his first goal of the season, at 12:53.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2021
  • All of the above have moments of grief that come in stealthily for the undefended parts of the reader.
    — Riza Cruz, ELLE, 20 June 2023
  • Wennberg when to the top of the crease and stickhandled the puck to his forehand — still undefended — and beat Bernier.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2021
  • And for the rest of the Thirty Years’ War, Rothenburg lay wide-open, undefended.
    — Rick Steves, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2021
  • Yeimar Gómez came back in the 69th minute with a header off an undefended cross.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
  • But this fall, the pool of undefended kids is larger than usual.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2022
  • An undefended toilet next to a urinal is not an ideal place for a trans man to take a leak, but Ben was confident — and had to go.
    — New York Times, 10 May 2022
  • If a bout dragged on for hours, the boxers could agree to exchange undefended blows—a pugilistic equivalent of sudden death.
    — Nick Romeo, National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2016
  • That alignment left the entire left side of the infield unoccupied and undefended for any ground ball.
    — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Athletic had good looks at the net early on, including a rather undefended Mads Jorgensen shot just two minutes into the game that flew wide right of the net.
    — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 23 Sep. 2020
  • In every one of these enclaves, just as in Nagraogo, villagers were undefended and left to be slaughtered.
    — Nick Turse, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
  • One woman invoked the riots that rocked the city in 1992, saying that the same neighborhood had been left undefended by police during the unrest.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, latimes.com, 22 May 2018
  • His face is handsome, at odds with itself: martial black eyebrows over the undefended gaze of dark-blue eyes, the mouth curiously tight, the lower jaw thrust forward.
    — Joan Juliet Buck, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Aug. 2013
  • Will the words ultimately be remembered for how the U.S. left its loyal friends undefended?
    — WSJ, 2 Jan. 2019
  • 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.
    — David Gutman, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2021
  • And a growing number of lawmakers, residents and business groups on both sides of the world’s longest undefended border are out of patience.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
  • On the one hand, Canadians share the world’s longest undefended border with the U.S., voraciously consume their pop culture, and speak with (almost) the same accent.
    — Saif Alnuweiri, New Republic, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Her Teresa speaks of having no soul, of being empty, undefended, a vessel waiting hopelessly to be filled.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
  • But along the world’s largest undefended boundary, where notions of two open countries have persisted even after the strictures put in place after 9/11, the closure has felt even more baffling and unimaginable.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2020
  • Anyone who has worked in a hospital or nursing home knows the sickening sound of an old person falling: a faint cry, the scrape of a grasped nightstand, the horrible thwack of failing limbs and an undefended skull meeting hard floor.
    — Ben Moor, STAT, 27 Jan. 2021
  • In the turtle nests, the Orchid Island kukrisnakes have found the mother of all food sources – a big, tightly clustered, immobile and undefended hoard of nutrients, which will last for weeks without going off.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2011
  • Bianca Andreescu opted out of the competition and over a week after 2019 men's champ Rafael Nadal pulled out due to the coronavirus — leaving both of the Open's singles titles undefended this year.
    — Danielle Garrand, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Athletics shortstop Marcus Semien then singled into an undefended center field for a 6-5 A’s win.
    — John Hickey, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The victors then attacked the undefended town, torching it and slaughtering its inhabitants.
    — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
  • But Trump isn’t letting his position in North Carolina go undefended.
    — Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 24 Aug. 2020
  • This helped the Allied forces gain a crucial foothold into relatively undefended Sicily.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 11 May 2022
  • The Russian military's collapse that led to the loss of Izyum can largely be attributed to one simple fact: Russian forces left their flanks undefended, perhaps because of growing troop shortages, exhausted conscripts and low morale.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2022
  • There are no easy answers to improve the longstanding security dumpster fire created by cheap, undefended internet of things devices in homes and businesses around the world.
    — WIRED, 23 Oct. 2022
  • But those feelings of brotherhood have long been evident between America and Canada itself—as neighbours, friends and allies who share the world’s longest undefended border.
    — The Economist, 25 July 2019
  • The Russian military’s collapse that led to the loss of Izium can largely be attributed to one simple fact: Russian forces left their flanks undefended, perhaps because of growing troop shortages, exhausted conscripts and low morale.
    — Marc Santora, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2022

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