Sentence examples for were defenceless from inspiring English sources

His victims were defenceless.

People came together to celebrate, they were defenceless.

Christians were defenceless against assaults by Isis, he said.

Chakwera, who is president of the Malawi Congress Party, formerly the Nyasaland African Congress, told reporters after visiting the families at Katswetswe village in Nkhata Bay: "When you look at the scenario where unarmed people that included pregnant women were being shot at knowing that they were defenceless, I think there is a case".

They are defenceless.

I'm defenceless.

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

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.

Standing on low ground facing the Arno, the library was 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").