How to Use undefended in a Sentence

undefended

adjective

• But this fall, the pool of undefended kids is larger than usual.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2022
• All of the above have moments of grief that come in stealthily for the undefended parts of the reader.
  — Riza Cruz, ELLE, 20 June 2023
• Yeimar Gómez came back in the 69th minute with a header off an undefended cross.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
• Wennberg when to the top of the crease and stickhandled the puck to his forehand — still undefended — and beat Bernier.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2021
• That alignment left the entire left side of the infield unoccupied and undefended for any ground ball.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 30 Mar. 2018
• If a bout dragged on for hours, the boxers could agree to exchange undefended blows—a pugilistic equivalent of sudden death.
  — Nick Romeo, National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2016
• An undefended toilet next to a urinal is not an ideal place for a trans man to take a leak, but Ben was confident — and had to go.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2022
• In every one of these enclaves, just as in Nagraogo, villagers were undefended and left to be slaughtered.
  — Nick Turse, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
• And for the rest of the Thirty Years’ War, Rothenburg lay wide-open, undefended.
  — Rick Steves, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2021
• Trouba opened the scoring in the first period with an undefended slap shot after an egregious Blackhawks turnover.
  — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
• And a growing number of lawmakers, residents and business groups on both sides of the world’s longest undefended border are out of patience.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
• Her Teresa speaks of having no soul, of being empty, undefended, a vessel waiting hopelessly to be filled.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
• The victors then attacked the undefended town, torching it and slaughtering its inhabitants.
  — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• Athletic had good looks at the net early on, including a rather undefended Mads Jorgensen shot just two minutes into the game that flew wide right of the net.
  — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• This helped the Allied forces gain a crucial foothold into relatively undefended Sicily.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 11 May 2022
• One woman invoked the riots that rocked the city in 1992, saying that the same neighborhood had been left undefended by police during the unrest.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, latimes.com, 22 May 2018
• There are no easy answers to improve the longstanding security dumpster fire created by cheap, undefended internet of things devices in homes and businesses around the world.
  — WIRED, 23 Oct. 2022
• Athletics shortstop Marcus Semien then singled into an undefended center field for a 6-5 A’s win.
  — John Hickey, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2018
• As the martian interior cooled, leading theories hold, its magnetic field died out, leaving the atmosphere undefended and ending this warm and wet period, when the planet might have hosted life.
  — Byzack Savitsky, science.org, 20 Dec. 2022
• But along the world’s largest undefended boundary, where notions of two open countries have persisted even after the strictures put in place after 9/11, the closure has felt even more baffling and unimaginable.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2020
• The whine of mosquitoes probing for just one millimeter of flesh undefended by DEET was constant, set off by a counterpoint buzz of horseflies circling my head.
  — Rusty Foster, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
• As with the assault on Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 attacks, the United States has been left essentially undefended.
  — John J. Farmer, Foreign Affairs, 4 May 2020
• But those feelings of brotherhood have long been evident between America and Canada itself—as neighbours, friends and allies who share the world’s longest undefended border.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• My withdrawal comes in the wake of personal attacks that, left undefended, would have made my leading USAG a liability for the organization.
  — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2018
• The consensus of Russian military experts appears to be that the defeat was a limited setback brought on by the error of failing to sufficiently man the long front lines, leaving the Kharkiv sector relatively undefended.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Sep. 2022
• Bianca Andreescu opted out of the competition and over a week after 2019 men's champ Rafael Nadal pulled out due to the coronavirus — leaving both of the Open's singles titles undefended this year.
  — Danielle Garrand, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2020
• Back then, America feared an armada of Soviet bombers laden with A-bombs barreling over the horizon, dodging our few anti-aircraft batteries, and dropping their deadly payloads on undefended American cities.
  — Barry Scott Zellen, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2026
• Mark Collins, who was born and raised in Newfoundland, Canada, said Canadians have long treasured their friendship with the United States and the fact that the US-Canada border is the longest undefended border on the planet.
  — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025