How to Use armored in a Sentence

armored

adjective
  • Additional armored divisions were deployed to the eastern front.
  • Fighting has raged in the streets of the camp, and armored cars are seen patrolling.
    — Majdi Mohammed and Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Bosch, for seven seasons and most of his life, was armored in the power and the might of the state.
    — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2023
  • As the team gears up to rob an armored car, a detective and his partner plan to stop the group's crime.
    — Starr Savoy, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Stomping around in armored boots that sound like a mid-'90s Nine Inch Nails rhythm track?
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 23 May 2023
  • Deputies arrived to find a pair of armored car employees who’d come to pick up cash from the store.
    — Jeff Weiner, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Later, the man stands at the back of an armored vehicle while an officer cuts the back of the shirt from neck to waist.
    — Maryclaire Dale, Marc Levy, and Michael Rubinkam, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The armored vehicles were held hostage for about two months.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The Kenyans also want their own armored vehicles and do not want to have to share with Haitian cops.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 4 June 2024
  • On the roads along the way, tanks and armored vehicles were left abandoned, had crashed or had broken down.
    — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Eight armored Israeli vehicles drove through the street, the last one shooting from its rear port.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Rolling through downtown Port-au-Prince, the armored convoy came under intense fire in the dark.
    — Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The vehicle is lightly armored and weighs just 16 tons.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The Enchanted Knight appears to be an armored spellcaster, with garb akin to the Elite Knight set but less bulky.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • But Russia needs munitions, tanks and armored vehicles — which is where China could step in and change the course of the war.
    — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Bolton was parked nearby, in an armored vehicle known as a Bearcat.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The ankylosaurs were armored dinosaurs with large, bludgeon-like tails.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Thanks to climate change, the armored animals are making their way up north.
    — Oliver Milman, Wired, 20 Nov. 2021
  • The soldier wrote that most units have old armored vehicles that are of poor quality and break down.
    — Yuliya Chernova, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2022
  • The head is heavily armored, but the rear of the abdomen is a weak point for obvious reasons, there has to be an orifice there.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
  • On April 28 he was killed when a Russian tank scored a direct hit on his armored vehicle.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2022
  • Alexander led his armored warriors up a hill fending off a hail of arrows.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
  • Even a clean pass by a mine plow doesn’t guarantee safe passage for an armored column.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • McDonald’s left leg was vised between two plates of armored steel.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Ukrainians were told to keep away from Russian soldiers and their armored vehicles, to give them the right of way on the street, and to remain unarmed.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • Schwing: In his lab, Sikes opens a cabinet door and slides out a drawer filled with black and orange armored beetles.
    — Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Much of the country is mired in spring thaw, which turns fields and rural roads into a sea of mud — tough terrain even for armored vehicles.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • He was issued a Kalashnikov rifle, 120 bullets, an armored vest and a helmet for the assault.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The term was coined in the 1930s to describe the concentration of armored forces for a sudden, rapid advance which breaks through enemy lines and keeps going.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Last month, the State Department paused apparent plans for a $400 million contract for armored Tesla vehicles.
    — Nathaniel Minor, NPR, 12 Mar. 2025

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