Sentence examples for is defenceless from inspiring English sources

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is defenceless

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Without defence; undefended.

  • Blind, deaf, and paralysed, the old man was defenceless

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And the world is defenceless against it.

Usually dignified, noble and Scottish, when August hits Edinburgh, it is defenceless.

An armed population is simply more difficult to exterminate than one that is defenceless.

Bull's less wordy version is smoother English and also better mimics the punch of Machiavelli's Italian: "So, as a prince is forced to know how to act like a beast, he must learn from the fox and the lion; because the lion is defenceless against traps and a fox is defenceless against wolves").

It is defenceless against any excesses in the ideology of the centre.

Abbes has a purpose and mission before which France is defenceless.

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They are defenceless.

His victims were defenceless.

I'm defenceless.

"It's a super-stimulus and we really are defenceless.

People came together to celebrate, they were defenceless.

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