Sentence examples for it is defenceless from inspiring English sources
Usually dignified, noble and Scottish, when August hits Edinburgh, it is defenceless.
It is defenceless against any excesses in the ideology of the centre.
The operator claims that it is defenceless against gangs hiding drugs behind false floors and in the moving parts of its trains because neither the Mexican nor the US authorities will allow the train company's staff to inspect cars before they become the responsibility of American border police.
In his book he writes that he had closed down emotionally since he was five, but "with Tops I was 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").
Despite all its history and the pleasure it had brought to millions over the course of 75 years, when it faced up to economic reality, Hollywood Park was defenceless.
"It's a super-stimulus and we really are defenceless.
His victims were defenceless.
