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Example sentences for "disarmed"

Lexicographically close words:
disapproves; disapproving; disapprovingly; disarm; disarmament; disarming; disarms; disarrange; disarranged; disarrangement
  1. Officers who chanced to be in the way of the crowds were disarmed and some of them killed.

  2. The Government most thoughtlessly bound itself by a promise, given in its first declaration, that "the troops which had taken part in the revolutionary movement should not be either disarmed or moved from Petrograd.

  3. The units of the Army that have taken part in the Revolutionary movement are not to be disarmed or removed from Petrograd.

  4. St. John had disarmed him, and put him in the wrong.

  5. There was still a slight exuberance in the carnation in his buttonhole and the immense size of the cigar he drew out of his case; but the case itself was simple, and there was a simplicity about his whole bearing which disarmed criticism.

  6. The simplicity of his plea disarmed her again, and the hotel being reached at that moment she allowed him to take her on his arm up the steps after the fashion of the day.

  7. The injustice of their neighbour stimulated him to revenge, and he had been prepared for resisting force by force; but the command of the anxious father, unwilling to expose his son to danger, had disarmed him.

  8. But the Saracens were less inhuman victors than the conquered could have expected; they disarmed their three prisoners of war, and did them no bodily harm whatever.

  9. I burst out sobbing, and went back home at once, for I did not want to meet any more disarmed French soldiers.

  10. He had sworn to retrieve the general's neglect, and remained deaf to the entreaties of his disarmed fellow-citizens as well as to the commands of Caesar and the superior officers.

  11. Bewildered, as if seeking deliverance from treachery at the hands of the traitor, Sabinus requested a conference with Ambiorix; it was granted, and he and the officers accompanying him were first disarmed and then slain.

  12. The mutinous spirit of these troops appeared to be in concert with the movements of the French forces on the frontiers; so much so, that they were disarmed and sent to the rear.

  13. The courtliness of his manner disarmed hostility; but when he sat down to the piano, ran his fingers over the keys, and sang a few bars, the exquisite voice found its way to every heart.

  14. When Delsarte had finished his studies, he entered the world unaided and alone; disarmed by the hostilities which could not fail to await him, by his very superiority, and by that honesty which refuses to lend itself to certain transactions.

  15. In as little time as it takes me to record it, they were disarmed and ranged against the wall behind those guards and others that had come to their support--to be dealt with by Ramiro after he had dealt with me.

  16. If the prevailing excellence of Mr. Bryant’s work had not disarmed us, we should be disposed to protest against the repetition of an error, as well as against the presumption of national ignorance, by which it is excused.

  17. Those who are armed should respect a disarmed enemy.

  18. Ella did not speak; but her gentle look might have disarmed animosity, as she turned her soft eyes almost appealingly towards her irate visitor.

  19. That cool matter-of-fact way staggered and disarmed Charley.

  20. Still no answer--only a pitiful, almost imploring look that ought to have disarmed the most wrathful.

  21. When he learned that he had disarmed Elbegast (Alberich), the notorious highwayman, he promised to let him go free if he would only help him steal something that night.

  22. A duel was arranged, and the butler, disarmed by Tristan, confessed his lie.

  23. We cannot suppose that the Russians found them in such a defenceless state; it is more probable that, for their own security, they have disarmed them.

  24. His temper might, perhaps, have been justly blamed, as subject to hastiness and passion, had not these been disarmed by a disposition the most benevolent and humane.

  25. In making such concessions he would establish a position of fairness and honesty, and often disarmed his opponent by leaving the impression that he had accidentally "given away his case.

  26. That disarmed the leaders of the Whig party and made the rank and file indifferent.

  27. Mr. Perceval thinks he has disarmed the Irish: he has no more disarmed the Irish than he has resigned a shilling of his own public emoluments.

  28. You are in my power, disarmed and fettered.

  29. But Recared disarmed the conspirators, defeated the rebels, and executed severe justice; which the Arians, in their turn, might brand with the reproach of persecution.

  30. Yet these sanguinary laws, which spread terror among a disarmed and dispirited people, were of too weak a texture to restrain the bold enterprise of Tribigild [21] the Ostrogoth.

  31. He was now poor and blind; and who would pursue with violence an illustrious enemy, depressed by fortune and disarmed by nature?

  32. The soldiers disarmed the bandits, and tied their arms behind their backs.

  33. In one dash to the front, and with one powerful sweep of his cudgel, he disarmed two of the Taits, and, cutting a third to the skull, felled him to the ground.

  34. Posterity cannot pardon Charles for having abused his victory even so far as to condemn and decapitate his disarmed and vanquished enemy.

  35. It was Miss Sally who then said: "And he disarmed you in a duel?


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disarmed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    crippled; disabled; disqualified; incapacitated; invalidated; paralyzed; prostrate