Sentence examples similar to it was defenceless from inspiring English sources
Usually dignified, noble and Scottish, when August hits Edinburgh, it is defenceless.
In his book he writes that he had closed down emotionally since he was five, but "with Tops I was 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.
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.
Standing on low ground facing the Arno, the library was defenceless.
"Today there's no satisfaction, or happiness, but we are glad to see jailed the killers who murdered my mother simply for defending natural resources at a moment when she was defenceless.
And the world is defenceless against it.
"It's a super-stimulus and we really are defenceless.
His victims were defenceless.
