How to Use armor in a Sentence

armor

noun
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  • 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 idea was to demonstrate the new system, called Kavach, or armor.
    — Alex Travelli, New York Times, 4 June 2023
  • Sir, the police dog, was wearing body armor but was hit by the shot.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But the new silos will be closer to the surface and will have less armor.
    — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • 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 steel armor along its frontal arc is just 70 millimeters thick.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • Santana, whose game face is a thing of beauty and armor, makes her way toward the men.
    — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
  • But getting a laser to punch through the armor of a tank is a distinct and challenging task.
    — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 2 May 2023
  • Species like Ankylosaurus were covered from snout to tail in armor.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The armor stones were placed needed to prevent erosion as well.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • With IEDs, the weakness targeted was the thin armor and flat bottom of Humvees.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
  • While the musician shows no signs of surrender on the 17-track record, there are cracks in her armor.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The heavy metal aids in piercing tanks and other armor.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Israel has used the same type of armor on its vehicles.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Makeup and hair and all the things that us artists do to put ourselves together—that gives us our armor.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 27 June 2023
  • But Frank directs without the armor of such a mystique.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • In fact, things like tires, license plates, a fur coat, a chicken coop, and even a full suit of armor have been found in their stomachs!
    — Jennifer Earl, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Amazon The power armor didn't protect this Knight from this Yao Guai.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The agent was driving a blue Chevy Malibu, which contained the agent’s body armor and radio when it was stolen, sources said.
    — Jack Date, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The last one is important because players can only be hit a few times before the armor breaks and the next hit is a game over.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2024
  • And at the foot of the grand stairs are illuminated alcoves that shelter life-size suits of knights’ armor.
    — Jeastman, oregonlive, 7 July 2023
  • About 12 soldiers poured in, all clad in body armor and wearing headlamps.
    — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
  • The battle the heinous designs of Crimson Lord whose shards of his armor play havoc in the metropolis, and then Black Tiger.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 9 June 2023
  • There's a pocket for back armor too, but none is included.
    — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 17 July 2023
  • But there is not as much fluidity or movement with the armor.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 5 June 2023
  • The body armor, outfitted with laser sensors, would beep when its wearer was shot.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023

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