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Example sentences for "weaponless"

Lexicographically close words:
weanling; weans; weant; weapon; weaponed; weaponry; weapons; wear; weare; weared
  1. Deep groaned Æneas from his heart in such wise to behold The car, the spoils, the very corpse of him, his fellow dead, To see the hands of Priam there all weaponless outspread.

  2. Swift as the East he flees When in his right hand weaponless an unknown hilt he sees.

  3. Still wait and watch; the way prepare Where I with folded wings of prayer May follow, weaponless and bare.

  4. A weaponless man is but a wretch, my lord!

  5. The woman for whom I long-- She whose charm both wounds and delights-- In thrall is held by the man Who mocks a weaponless foe.

  6. Hers had been a move of desperation, an instinctive act to restore the balance between a weaponless man and one who had a knife.

  7. But at that glance of sorrowing goodness with which she smiles on all our faults, all trace of defiant courage dies in me, and I am weaponless because she is.

  8. I know not whether he was a devil or an angel; for without his shriek of hate we should still be lying beneath the foot of tyranny, bleeding and weaponless as he who lies below.

  9. And when the wretched Frenchmen reached that line, weaponless and helpless as they were, they were one and all put to death.

  10. With tremendous dash the Confederates flung themselves upon the half dressed, weaponless crowd of men who fled before them, or were bayoneted before they could seize their muskets.

  11. And when Balin was weaponless he ran into a chamber for to seek some weapon, and so from chamber to chamber, and no weapon he could find, and alway king Pellam after him.

  12. He tried to struggle to his feet, but one leg failed him and he fell back, lying prone, just aside from the forest path, nearly weaponless and the easy prey of the wild beasts.

  13. As he went along with a dog's gait he was not in much terror, practically weaponless as he was.

  14. For eighteen hundred years the spirit of these writers has been engaged in weaponless contest with the Sermon on the Mount, and those two sublime commandments on which hang all the law and the prophets.

  15. Weaponless was he, and her husband had mocked at him for it.

  16. He would not grudge a weaponless guest such harbourage, though his wife is alone with him and tends to him.

  17. And so Shann Lantee, most menial of the Terrans attached to the camp on the planet Warlock, was left alone and weaponless in the strange, hostile world, the human prey of the aliens from space and the aliens on the ground alike.

  18. The weaponless Wyvern was the prey, and both her companions were too far away to interfere.

  19. And when Balin was weaponless he ran into a chamber for to seek some weapon, and so from chamber to chamber, and no weapon he could find, and always King Pellam after him.

  20. Many amongst them, weaponless and armourless and wounded, are falling down.

  21. Then king Yudhishthira, speedily jumping down from that steedless car, stood weaponless and with arms upraised, O bull of Bharata's race!

  22. If you stand weaponless on the earth, this weapon will not slay you.

  23. Those few remaining of the fighting Earthmen farther up the valley, no longer menaced by the futile fliers, had come down to help their weaponless brethren.

  24. Morgan smiled slowly, handed over his dynol pistol without a word to a weaponless man and stalked after his leader.

  25. In the Val del Aguar it was a massacre of the weaponless wretches, rather than a battle; three thousand Moriscos were slain and only one Spaniard, Bautista Crespo, who was killed by his own firelock.

  26. In places weaponless crowds pointed to the burning city, and shouted, "Kill us in view of that fire!

  27. Here and there they fought hand to hand; but the pretorians conquered the weaponless multitude easily.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weaponless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    clean; defenseless; helpless; unarmed; unattended; uncovered; undefended; unfortified; unguarded; unprotected; unsheltered; unsuspecting; unwarned; unwatched