How to Use armed to the teeth in a Sentence

armed to the teeth

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  • These officers — and the rest of the force — were armed to the teeth.
    Dvora Meyers, Longreads, 7 Aug. 2020
  • When society is armed to the teeth, bad things are bound to happen.
    Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
  • There are no machetes, nor compounds ruled by strongmen armed to the teeth.
    Scott Winship, National Review, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The original excavators assumed that the individual who’d been buried armed to the teeth was a man.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019
  • My friends, there is a toxic mixture in this country today of hate, of anger, and a population that is increasingly armed to the teeth with deadly weapons.
    CBS News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The real Stagecoach Mary was a legendary mail carrier who spent a decade traversing the treacherous Montana territory, armed to the teeth and never missing a day.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The Ambassador still has his grandfather's diary describing how the Finnish citizens armed to the teeth waited in the forests to attack the invading Russian troops.
    Fox News, 16 May 2022

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