How to Use armor in a Sentence

armor

noun
  • The shots penetrated the tank's armor.
  • The armadillo's armor consists of a series of small, bony plates.
  • The officers are required to wear bulletproof body armor.
  • The slightest crack in the door, the slightest chink in the armor.
    — Danielle Pergament, Allure, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Then, the men walk around the tank, patting its chunky green armor.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The blacksmith will craft new weapons and armor for you.
    — Aaron Zimmerman, Ars Technica, 6 May 2022
  • The chink the armor is the pitching staff at least numbers-wise.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Like, that’s sort of her armor and her way to survive in life.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
  • The idea was to demonstrate the new system, called Kavach, or armor.
    — Alex Travelli, New York Times, 4 June 2023
  • And the streets of Washington were not built to have tonnes of heavy armor rolling over them.
    — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • Some might have described it as a tank, but it’s not that sort of armor.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Sir, the police dog, was wearing body armor but was hit by the shot.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The courts will employ that armor until the last dog dies.
    — William W Bedsworth, Oc Register, 26 May 2025
  • And his Nike sneakers appear to have some kind of armor over where the laces are.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 May 2021
  • But the new silos will be closer to the surface and will have less armor.
    — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Mando leaves—with the Darksaber and a new piece of Beskar armor for his foundling, Grogu.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The deluxe edition nets you a few fancy skins and armor.
    — Jess Grey, Wired, 13 June 2021
  • Some of the agents were masked, wore armor and carried rifles.
    — Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2025
  • The next day, an armed man clad in body armor sought to breach the FBI’s field office in Cincinnati.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Aug. 2022
  • The next day, an armed man clad in body armor sought to breach the FBI's field office in Cincinnati.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Knives, guns in the form of pistols and rifles, bear spray, body armor, spears.
    — NBC News, 3 July 2022
  • There are swords with their sheaths and small brass cannons and armor made with carabao horns.
    — Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Black horse-braid knots ran up and down her arms like the suckers of a cephalopod, or spikes of armor.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The project aimed to stabilize the shoreline by burying large armor stones at the back of the beach and bottom of the bluff.
    — Eddie Morales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The sight of the car brings Schwarzenegger back to his old self, complete with a suit of armor and glowing blue eyes.
    — Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com, 13 Feb. 2022
  • According to a statement from the Suns, the turquoise uniforms will serve as the team’s suit of armor.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The other is made to resemble a knight’s armor, made out of a shiny satin.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 11 June 2021
  • My blazer and dress shoes felt like an old suit of armor in need of oiling.
    — Washington Post, 17 June 2021
  • Among the creatures unearthed at the site was also an ancient turtle with spike-like armor and shell, which at the same time was also present in Germany.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
  • Over the course of 12 episodes and a sequel special, viewers see the decimation of a kingdom at the hand of a flesh-eating virus, and survivors can only fend off the undead with armor, swords, bows, and arrows.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 26 June 2025

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