How to Use heavily armed in a Sentence

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• Nathan, who has been charged in the killings, was heavily armed.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2025
• That is, until heavily armed goons arrive to steal a pallet of gold bars.
  — Mark Kennedy, Boston Herald, 20 June 2025
• Programmed to serve, the heavily armed robot soldier does not love its job.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 12 May 2025
• Dozens of men — in trucks, on dirt bikes and on foot — emerge from the mist to form heavily armed columns for a race across the border.
  — Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• Some people went on with their daily lives, undisturbed by the heavily armed new arrivals.
  — Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
• For those who live in the French suburbs, run-ins with heavily armed cops are not uncommon.
  — Charlotte Kilpatrick, The New Republic, 3 July 2023
• The Bradley, fast and heavily armed, was built to carry ground troops across battlefields.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2023
• Once peaceful fishermen now go to sea heavily armed and share trade routes and profits with drug kingpins.
  — Erik Vance, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
• Then, seven heavily armed soldiers came to their tent, Chantal says.
  — Sophie Neiman, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2025
• Other nations are trying to compete with more heavily armed patrol boats of their own.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 20 June 2023
• The police force is struggling to stave off an insurrection by heavily armed gangs.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
• William was wounded in the attack, which claimed the lives of eight people before the heavily armed gunman was shot dead.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 9 May 2023
• As heavily armed agents entered the restaurant, local residents screamed at them and filmed the scene.
  — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 2 June 2025
• Her grandchildren were present and watched as heavily armed officers stood guard, the lawsuit said.
  — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 4 June 2025
• Experts have described Hezbollah as the world’s most heavily armed non-state actor.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• The Russians — more heavily armed — advance in spurts, pushing the front lines farther west.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
• From the windows of one convoy, fighters from the two sides could be seen standing, heavily armed but unmoving.
  — Jack Jeffery and Noha Elhennawy, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2023
• The dusty access roads are teeming with heavily armed gangs, whose ranks have been reinforced by people who have escaped from prison.
  — Linnea Fehrm, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2024
• Others said his fighters were too heavily armed and posed too big an immediate threat to be neutralized on the spot.
  — Paul Sonne, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• Even Moten’s bodyguards, who were known to be heavily armed, were left vulnerable when their weapons were taken away.
  — Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024
• In the right of the picture, a platoon of soldiers, heavily armed and preceded by a pair of gun carriages, tramp through a defile.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025
• The plaintiffs noted the tactics of the raids, in which agents arrived in military clothing and gear, heavily armed and masked.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 July 2025
• The trailer shows Ford cracking that whip in front of a group of heavily armed henchmen with Waller-Bridge at his side.
  — Andrew Dalton, Chron, 11 Sep. 2022
• The news agency also showed heavily armed men flanked by armored vehicles shooting what appeared to be tear gas into the the streets.
  — NBC News, 30 Jan. 2025
• The shooting at the hospital briefly sparked panic as heavily armed police combed the building hunting for the gunman.
  — Ahmad Seir and Aleksandar Furtula The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2023
• This makes no sense to him — but there’s no time to puzzle it out, as his rural home is abruptly swarmed by heavily armed agents with apparent shoot-to-kill orders.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 Jan. 2024
• The compound housed a heavily armed group of Branch Davidians.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
• Tuesday’s incident is the second time in a month a heavily armed man was caught going into a part of the subway system closed off to the public.
  — Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2024
• Analysts say those rebels must now try to unite a country cleaved apart by more than a decade of civil war, one in which dozens of heavily armed militias and remnants of the old regime linger.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
• Militias, which are heavily armed, have also been assigned to protect the coastal region at high alert, according to the officials.
  — Aicha El Hammar Castano, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2025