Sentence examples for armoured like from inspiring English sources

The Times wrote of the "challenge of Islamism" in which "tiny numbers of terrorists are forcing western governments to flood their capitals with police armoured like stormtroopers" to fight terrorists who "derive their power from a global support network".

I brought it home and removed the sticky threads with tweezers, revealing its spectacular curved "rhino" horn tipped with a brush of golden hairs and mounted on a head armoured like that of a Triceratops dinosaur.

Armoured like Joan of Arc and her fiendish alter ego, they fling themselves around, smashing swords.

The terms of reference for the Committee were for a battleship capable of 21 kn with 12-inch guns and no intermediate calibres, capable of docking in existing drydocks; and a cruiser capable of 25.5 kn, also with 12-inch guns and no intermediate armament, armoured like, the most recent armoured cruiser, and also capable of using existing docks.

The role of the secondary battery was to damage the less well-armoured parts of an enemy battleship; while unable to penetrate the main armour belt, it might score hits on lightly armoured areas like the bridge, or start fires.

Hellfire missiles were originally designed to destroy and burn through heavy armoured vehicles like tanks.

: The skin of all sharks is armoured with dermal denticles – teeth-like structures coated in enamel.

Order Cingulata consists primarily of armoured armadillo-like animals, and the name refers to the girdlelike shell of present-day armadillos.

The first time you see them, they come charging at you like colossi – armoured up in shoulder pads and helmets for a game of American football.

He was adamant that the riot cops – suited up like heavily armoured, monochromatic Power Rangers – were protecting a government of "terrorists".

These clothes also felt modern, the pleat-skirted models marching out less like flappers and more like female centurions, armoured and attired to brave the modern world.