How to Use unprotected in a Sentence

unprotected

adjective

• They're planning to build roads over thousands of acres of unprotected land.
• If your computer is unprotected, you're likely to get a virus.
• What does this mean for the Pride players left unprotected for the draft?
  — Mike Gramajo, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2021
• In the meantime, as long as many of us are unprotected, none of us is safe.
  — Susan Goldberg, National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2021
• If they are left unprotected a a team could take them in the Rule 5 Draft in December.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2021
• Bloom decided to leave Ward unprotected while keeping the likes of Kaleb Ort on the 40-man roster.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2022
• The deep sea is Earth’s largest habitat and the vast majority of it is unprotected.
  — New York Times, 22 Nov. 2021
• While their feet and ankles are stabilized in the ski boots, the area just above remains unprotected.
  — Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 2 Dec. 2022
• That comes down to this: Are the Heat in a position to give up three first-round picks, at least two unprotected, and mortgage their draft future?
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 July 2022
• The same rule applies to hot items, like pots or pans—placing them unprotected on the wood surface can leave lasting burn marks.
  — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 22 Feb. 2023
• At the next Hudson crossing, on the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, the view was impressive, but the busy bridge’s bike lane was entirely unprotected.
  — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• The Knicks have struggled this season (12-15) so an unprotected pick could easily put you in the lottery but will the Knicks offer that?
  — Nat Newell, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Dec. 2021
• Some said another school would worsen traffic, the site was too small for the plan, and unprotected commuter rail tracks near the school posed a risk to students.
  — Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2022
• But at this rate, that could still leave hundreds of millions of Windows 10 PCs unprotected.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2023
• The district court concluded that his speech was unprotected by the First Amendment.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2024
• The best comedy punches up at people in power, not down at unprotected people and these comics have been in the game long enough to know this.
  — Tayo Bero, refinery29.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• But these littlest ones have been out there, unprotected.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 15 Feb. 2022
• Safety is also an issue; teachers are put in the line of fire, left unprotected in an era of school shootings.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
• Very few people were simply sitting in the parking lot unprotected from the elements, but a small number of hearty souls were out there in the cold and wind.
  — Steve Svekis, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2024
• That leaves the airway unprotected at a time when the patient’s cough reflex is impeded.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 8 Sep. 2023
• The rock face is very exposed, a mountaineering term used to describe terrain that’s steep and unprotected.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022
• That’s why this footage of him as a little boy stands out as one of the few unprotected and noncurated peeks behind the curtain of a life cloaked in mystery.
  — Rashad Shabazz, The Conversation, 19 Apr. 2022
• More than half of coastal sage scrub in the county, for example, remains unprotected.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2023
• But the virus quickly spread among children left unprotected.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023
• While your body may repair some of this damage, the sun’s rays continue to damage unprotected skin.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
• Here, Angelenos audience test the next season of the end of the world every day — from the drama of the unprotected left to the dark comedy of getting dressed up to stave off the ankle biters.
  — Edmund Arévalo, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• Outside of Earth, is there any place a human could survive unprotected for even ten seconds?
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
• This leaves most countries unprotected and unprepared to cope in the event of a health emergency, whether it’s triggered by climate change or not.
  — Rob Reddick, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024
• Victor Frankenstein abandoned his creation, leaving him alone and unprotected as the world pursued and sought to assign the creation back to death.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• There's nothing more annoying than securing your strands at night, only to wake up to your sleep cap on one side of the bed and a tousled head of hair that went unprotected at some point in the night.
  — Andrea Jordan, Good Housekeeping, 16 June 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024