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How to use armour in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Armour means british standard spelling of armor. Example: “Ceramic armour is used in armoured vehicles for its attenuative properties.”

More sentences with armour

  • Ceramic armour is used in armoured vehicles for its attenuative properties.From the entry attenuative
  • He was protected by his body armour.From the entry by
  • The armoured vehicles rolled into the city.From the entry armoured
  • Rust ate into the old swords and armour.From the entry eat into
  • The Lord mayor and sheriff ride in their armour with surcoats of crimson.2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 165. From the entry surcoat
  • Mail gussets (later also articulated plate ones) that filled the gaps at the joints of the armour.2014, J. S. Hamilton, Fourteenth Century England VIII, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry voider
  • The men were in full-length lamellar armour which hampered their mobility to no small degree.2012, Peter Goh, chapter 2, in Eagle in the Land of Dragons, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry cataphract
  • These included two suits of armour, a katana and a waggadash (wakizashi) for himself.2004, Gregory Irvine, A guide to Japanese art collections in the UK, page 13. From the entry waggadash
  • The pieces come as field armour fitted with extra pieces for lighter field use.2003, David Starkey, Elizabeth: The Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random. From the entry shinplate
  • Chani, Warrior Princess: She roams Dune, fighting demons, wearing stupid armour, and flinging Wonder Woman-esque rings around.2001 December 6, The log, “Movie mismatches”, in alt.fan.dune (Usenet). From the entry Wonder Woman-esque
  • Moreover it is not easy to see how Aias, wearing armour, could have been overtly bephallused.1994, Egert Pöhlmann, Werner Gauer, Griechische Klassik, Carl, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry bephallused
  • The later knight has plate armour, and his wife wears a wimple.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 54. From the entry knight
  • They were still wearing their steel jambs, but their other armour had been removed from them.1980, Wolfram Eschenbach, Parzival, Penguin UK, →ISBN. From the entry jamb
  • Then Vulcanus, at the request of Venus, made a set of armour for Aeneas.1969 [1965], Sabine G Oswalt, “Aeneas”, in Concise Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology (World Reference Library), Glasgow: Collins…. From the entry Vulcanus
  • Romans, cursing in full armour, had to fight and footslog two thousand miles overland to Britain.1967, John David Stewart, Gibraltar: The Keystone. From the entry footslog
  • Corinius went on the right, wearing a rich cloak of sky-blue tissue over his shining armour.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 20. From the entry tissue
  • Their armour was stained with madder, in such wise that they seemed bathed in blood.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 19. From the entry madder
  • The rest of the armour and two of his weapons are seen on the trestle table.1904, The Archaeological Journal, page 307. From the entry voider
  • You can't stop it, but rock armour slows it to a point where it doesn't wash ballast or embankment material away."2020 August 26, Andrew Mourant, “Reinforced against future flooding”, in Rail, pages 59–60. From the entry rock armour
  • New in Henry's first French war were almain rivets, mass-produced South German plate body armours (see Fig. 3.3).2018, Steven Gunn, The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII, Oxford University Press, →ISBN. From the entry almain rivet
  • There was a moment before the speech when cameras captured Mr Trump in his armoured limousine, rehearsing his lines.2017 March 1, Anthony Zurcher, “Trump addresses Congress: A kinder, gentler president”, in BBC News. From the entry armoured
  • Nodosaurs are ankylosaurid dinosaurs: armoured herbivorous reptiles that look like the love-child of a rhino and an army tank.2017 September 27, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian. From the entry nodosaur
  • Sunblades, lightspears, dayshields, armour made from sungold.2015, William King, Born of Darkness. From the entry dayshield
  • There was blood in his armour, too.2013, John French, Ahriman: Exile (Warhammer 40,000), Nottingham, Notts.: Black Library, →ISBN, page 341. From the entry bodyplate
  • Inside it had rows upon rows of armour.2012, Daniel Cade, The Last Pure Warrior, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry bodyplate
  • These included bizarre forms with weird bony head armours, such as the bizarre galeaspids from China and the pituriaspids from Australia.2011, Jeffrey Stilwell, John Long, Frozen in Time: Prehistoric Life in Antarctica, page 64. From the entry galeaspid
  • This helmet is part of a set of armour, also comprising collar, pair of pauldrons, vambraces (armplate) and greaves (shinplate).2003, David Starkey, Elizabeth: The Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random. From the entry shinplate
  • The horse wore a caparison of iron or bronze scales with further armour on the neck or head.1996, Adrian Keith Goldsworthy, “The Opposition”, in The Roman Army at War: 100 BC–AD 200 (Oxford Classical Monographs), Oxford…. From the entry cataphract
  • This figure actually wears mail hosen, but others substituted scale or else wore no armour on the legs at all.1978, Ian Heath, Armies of Feudal Europe 1066-1300, →ISBN, page 209. From the entry hosen
  • He was a big man and looked terrifying in his armour and facelessness because of the helmet and vizor.1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 71. From the entry vizor
  • Who comes through Michan’s land, bedight in sable armour?1922, James Joyce, Ulysses. From the entry bedight
  • NORMAN FORBES' squire, Miss JEAN CADELL'S housekeeper, left no chinks in their armour for a critic's spleenful arrow.1920, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, April 28, 1920. From the entry spleenful
  • Elizabeth's notables outside of court wore rapiers with cup-hilts and cuissers or overlapping plates of armour on the thigh.1920, Jonathan Baum, “Fashions of Another Day”, in Clothing Trade Journal, page 168. From the entry cuisser
  • "Very cool and restful with this armoured steel between us and the dust and scurry of the hot July afternoon above.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry scurry
  • Now in their hearts those wildered Trojans said That once more they beheld Achilles' self Gigantic in his armour.1913, Smyrnaeus Quintus, The Fall of Troy. From the entry wilder
  • He is represented in full armour of the period in the brassarts and grevieres hinged, and cuffs upturned and lace edged.1902, Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Bristol, page 150. From the entry greviere
  • Armour of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, with the Grand-guard, Pasguard, and Main de fer for the tilt.1901, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo, The Encyclopædia of Sport: SAND-Z, page 398, caption on an image. From the entry main de fer
  • Video showed Ukrainian armoured columns advancing across snowy fields towards the village of Bolshoe Soldatskoe, north-east of the Ukrainian-held Russian town of Sudzha.2025 January 5, Luke Harding, “Ukraine launches surprise operation in Kursk region, according to reports”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry Bolshoe Soldatskoe
  • Now NR is examining other trouble spots where rock armour could work, such as stretches of flood-prone track near Abergavenny and Machynlleth.2020 August 26, Andrew Mourant, “Reinforced against future flooding”, in Rail, page 61. From the entry flood-prone
  • Out to sea are placoderms – heavily armoured fish, some of them more than six metres (twenty feet) long and equipped with massive, powerful jaws.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 12. From the entry placoderm

Meaning of armour

  1. noun British standard spelling of armor.

Full definition of armour

Questions about armour in a sentence

How do you use armour in a sentence?
Armour is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Ceramic armour is used in armoured vehicles for its attenuative properties.”
What is a short sentence with armour?
“He was protected by his body armour.”
What does armour mean?
Armour means british standard spelling of armor.

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