Sentence examples for weapons ready from inspiring English sources

Terrified, with weapons ready, they waited.

"He was preparing to defend himself from this invasion, barricading his house and getting weapons ready".

They moved carefully, with weapons ready and at least five yards between each man, the soldiers who surprised them said.

But he stopped short of declaring that Iraq had weapons ready for use rather than just programs to develop them.

The soldiers, who are scattered along the highway with their weapons ready, said it was too dangerous to proceed farther.

All around him they crouched in the smoky darkness, weapons ready, waiting for orders or for more action against a government they consider already dead.

He orders American nuclear weapons readied in response.

The air commander aboard Ark Royal aware that the surviving Dorniers would report the location of the British ships ordered the aircraft to be secured and the anti-aircraft weapons readied.

The principle then lies about like a loaded weapon ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need.

And that "principle then lies about like a loaded weapon ready for the hand of any authority than can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need".

Justice Jackson wrote that validating such an action was like leaving behind a "loaded weapon, ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need".