ARMOR in a Sentence

Learn ARMOR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

12 example sentences for ARMOR, such as:

1. She would never again get through that armor.
2. The wrinkled water was like armor damascened and polished.
3. I saw an armored protective cylinder around a revolving gun turret on that warship.
4. For one night, he had had her at his mercy but now she knew the weakness of his armor.
5. Jurgis was destined to find that Elzbieta's armor was absolutely impervious to Socialism.

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 Meanings and Examples of ARMOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
armor
 n.  shield; defensive covering, as of metal, wood, or leather, worn to protect the body against weapons
Classic Sentence:
1  She would never again get through that armor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
2  For one night, he had had her at his mercy but now she knew the weakness of his armor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
3  In the car he affectionately patted her knee, and he was for a second the striding youth in armor; then he was Doc Kennicott of Gopher Prairie, and she was recaptured by Main Street.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  The wrinkled water was like armor damascened and polished.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
6  Jurgis was destined to find that Elzbieta's armor was absolutely impervious to Socialism.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
7  He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination, with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XII
8  They pillaged a factory of small-arms on the Boulevard Saint-Martin, and three armorers' shops, the first in the Rue Beaubourg, the second in the Rue Michel-le-Comte, the other in the Rue du Temple.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
9  There were about fifty workers on it; thirty were armed with guns; for, on their way, they had effected a wholesale loan from an armorer's shop.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP
Example Sentence:
1  Where we do see cracks in armor is in new-home construction, both in single-family sales and condos.
2  I saw an armored protective cylinder around a revolving gun turret on that warship.
3  The cases against three people accused of stealing $7.4 million from an Ohio armored car company were transferred to Ohio from West Virginia.