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The phrase "armed only with" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone has limited resources or tools at their disposal, often implying a sense of vulnerability or determination.
Example: "He entered the competition armed only with his passion for music and a guitar."
Alternatives: "equipped solely with" or "having just".
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The Kurds, armed only with light weapons, have been overwhelmed by much more heavily armed Isis fighters.
According to many reports, the hijackers of the airplanes were armed only with knives and boxcutters.
To use weapons against those armed only with humor was the work of madmen.
But not to worry — they were armed only with laptop computers, not scalpels.
Less so now that its troops are killing children armed only with stones.
Copaken takes on the vast Navy bureaucracy, armed only with arcane provisions of environmental law.
Perhaps the men, armed only with kitchen knives, attacked a military patrol.
He marched to Aldermaston against Britain's bomb in 1958, armed only with sandwiches.
So far they are armed only with staves, stones and homemade mortars.
Members of that group, Ms. Dorival said, "are armed only with a radio".
Armed only with a light weapon, the bodyguard "was running there to protect him".
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