armored

adjective

ar·mored | \ ˈär-mərd

Definition of armored

1a : equipped or protected with armor

b : equipped with armored fighting vehicles an armored division

2 : marked by the use of armor armored combat

Examples of armored in a Sentence

a ship with an armored hull Additional armored divisions were deployed to the eastern front.

Recent Examples on the Web

The explosion damaged a fleet of Secret Service cars in the garage, including an armored limousine used by foreign dignitaries but not by the president, the agency said. — Tom Hays, The Seattle Times, "AP Was There: The 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center," 25 Feb. 2018 In Paris, some 8,000 police officers partially locked down the city center, particularly near the Élysée Palace—the official presidential residence—blocking off some streets with vans and armored vehicles and closing major metro stations. — Noemie Bisserbe, WSJ, "Lull in French Protests Offers Macron a Brief Respite," 16 Dec. 2018 The result is the the most heavily armed, and armored infantry carrier in the world. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Israel's 'Namer' Infrantry Vehicle Could Be a Glimpse of the U.S. Army's Future," 13 Dec. 2018 Now, as Russia fields a new generation of armored vehicles to go along with an aggressive foreign policy, the future battlefield again shifts back to heavy mechanized adversaries. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "The Army’s Next 'Tank' Could Look Like Anything," 11 Oct. 2018 As one of the most heavily armored ships of its time, the battleship was able to act as a rescue and hospital ship, even evacuating casualties from the beach at D-Day. — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, "The Battleship Texas played a big, booming part at D-Day," 6 June 2018 The sport is still looked at by many as high-speed chess with heavily armored men. — Conor Orr, SI.com, "Who Really Cares About the NFL Outside of the United States?," 22 May 2018 But the heavily armored green-and-yellow train that clunked its way into Beijing last week didn’t just bring the prospect of a high-stakes nuclear summit between North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and US President Trump a step closer. — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, "Why the US undervalues nuts and bolts diplomacy at its peril," 2 Apr. 2018 His grandfather Kim Il Sung, who ruled the country from its founding in 1948 until his death in 1994, and his father, Kim Jong Il, who ruled from 1994 until his death in 2011, both traveled abroad on heavily armored luxury trains. — Jonathan Kaiman, latimes.com, "China confirms that North Korea's Kim Jong Un was in Beijing for talks with Xi Jinping," 28 Mar. 2018

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