How To Use Armoured In A Sentence
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We can guarantee the punctual arrival of the armoured cars in foggy weather.
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As they go into battle, simultaneous armoured thrusts will be launched from Kuwait and Turkey.
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Six armoured personnel carriers were parked across the road.
Times, Sunday Times
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A warning shot was fired but he fled when none of the heavily armoured commandos was able to give chase.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those marines were in a lightly armoured vehicle when it hit the bomb, flipped into the air and exploded in a fireball.
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The armoured turret has both laying and stabilisation drives and power supply.
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He had twice been riding in an armoured vehicle that struck an improvised explosive device, and was injured once in friendly fire.
Times, Sunday Times
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It also plans to introduce more heavily armoured trucks.
Times, Sunday Times
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She also managed to go for a spin in an Army armoured vehicle, having wandered over to a tank-washing installation to see if she could have her picture taken sitting on one of the machines.
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The ankylosaurs were heavily armoured dinosaurs, 2 to 10 meters long, quadrupedal, slow moving, and fed on swampy soft vegetation.
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Will the New Zealand Army be purchasing and fitting extra armour to its light armoured vehicles; if not, why not, and, if so, at what cost?
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Security was such a concern that the seven defendants were taken to court in an armed convoy of armoured vans flanked by police motorcyclists.
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He said Alexkor recently "armoured" a particular slimes dam with coarse overburden to stop a windblown "plume" of fine material that was threatening the proclaimed Ramsar wetland site at the mouth of the Orange River.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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It has an unmanned turret, radar used in fighter jets and an armoured capsule for crew.
The Sun
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After 11 years of Margaret Thatcher, it proved necessary to cannibalise the entire armoured resources of the Rhine Army to deploy a weak division for the First Gulf War.
The Tory defence policy will be simple: cut, brutally
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The mayor of Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, has been filmed using an armoured vehicle to crush a car parked illegally in a cycle lane.
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Developed in the 30s, the Universal Carrier was designed to provide armoured troop transport and was produced in the U. K. Als well as in Canada.
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The army also lost 2,000 of its 2,900 armoured personnel carriers.
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Today's armoured battle might take place at night, using thermal imaging devices that are in many ways better than optical sights even on a clear day.
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Corporal Jones was on an operational tour in East Timor and was travelling in the rear of an armoured vehicle at the time of the incident.
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And cinema lends the added excitement of a battle featuring rocket launchers and armoured vehicles.
The Sun
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A gang of bank robbers come up with a plan for a lucrative armoured car robbery, but a determined police officer is closing in on them.
The Sun
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The high pitched whine of the armoured cars as they manoeuvred round the narrow streets filled me with dread.
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I had two bodyguards and we would travel in a convoy of not less than two armoured vehicles.
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The gunner's stopped the armoured artillery pieces, ready to fire at a word's notice.
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The Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Michael Boyce, said further British forces, including paratroops, infantry and armoured units as well as RAF strike aircraft, could be deployed into the region at short notice.
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Three of their six divisions are armoured with the rest being mechanised and motorised infantry.
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Armoured vehicles and troop carriers were destroyed or damaged.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a dream, the concept can be dated back at least to Leonardo da Vinci, who doodled a round, wheeled, armoured vehicle with cannon firing out of ports.
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Engineers added an armoured passenger cell made of steel and replaced windows with bulletproof units.
Times, Sunday Times
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The armoured regiments and the Guards remain for some inexplicable reason untouched.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seems impossible to avoid the conclusion that the active, armoured campodeiform grub differing less from its parent than an eruciform larva differs from its parent, is as a larval type more primitive than the caterpillar or maggot.
The Life-Story of Insects
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And cinema lends the added excitement of a battle featuring rocket launchers and armoured vehicles.
The Sun
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Behind them rumbled an impressive line of Russian BTR-60 PK armoured personnel-carriers, huge, boat-shaped amphibious ones.
KARA KUSH
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We have a few difficulties at the moment because the fungus does not impart resistance to wear, particularly from heavy armoured vehicles!
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Until the armoured regiment had crossed its start line, the armoured infantry would pause momentarily in forward holding areas.
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The Peshmerga provide him with cigarettes, food and space to sleep in an armoured vehicle.
The Sun
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With its armoured shell, thick leathery skin and slow movement, the turtle is one of the most easily recognized creatures on earth.
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They're safely back in the bunker ordering the privates, corporals and sergeants to climb aboard our motorized tin cans, known as armoured vehicles, and patrol that God-forsaken desert -- knowing full well roadside bombs could blow them to bits.
Toronto Sun
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His strike hit home, knocking a few of the armoured scales loose and inflicting a minor wound.
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The armoured vehicle is protected against 14.5 mm heavy machine gun rounds and artillery splinters.
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His car was mud-splattered, parked amongst the jeeps and armoured personnel carriers, a hundred yards from the helicopter pad.
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The hail of energy pulses was too much for the copter's armoured hull to take, as it exploded and debris rained down onto the street far below.
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I stumbled off to be sick behind an armoured personnel carrier as he started on Marius.
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Others assembled crossbows whose bows were of the finest black spring steel, that could hurl a dart with such force as would kill a fully armoured destrier with a single shot.
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In this context, putting the case for armoured divisions was something that had to be done with skill and tact.
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However, a new generation of young officers embraced the idea of a fast moving war based on armoured vehicles supported by air power.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq, Jan 8 IPS – Ten-year-old Yassir aimed a plastic gun at a passing U.S. armoured patrol in Fallujah, and shouted Bang!
Think Progress » FACT CHECK: Congress Has Repeatedly Placed Limits On Military Deployments And Funding
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In recent years, Britain has been pulled up for the sale of military and security equipment such as armoured vehicles to
ANC Daily News Briefing
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He was recounting how he had ambushed a column of armoured vehicles, killing dozens of soldiers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since then, the military has deployed armoured personnel carriers around sensitive buildings in the city, and police are said to have mostly withdrawn.
Times, Sunday Times
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In-line transmission is by four central axles protected by armoured housings.
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Yeah, in defiance of the hoariest cliche in the Big Bumper Book of Onscreen Melodramatic Cliches, have your characters wander into the House of DeathFilled WithPossible Anomaly Monsters, unarmoured, unarmed etc etc.
Primeval Season 3: What The Hell Happened? – Updated « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
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The engine cowlings are armoured for protection.
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A behemoth called Dead Reckoning, a 70 ft long armoured truck provides cover and support for the looters.
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We can guarantee the punctual arrival of the armoured cars in foggy weather.
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At $222, they’ll be transporting cigarettes in armoured vehicles … —
When a Pack of Cigarettes Costs $222 - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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Blue armour was visible, and the tramp of armoured feet was just audible, even above the roaring storm.
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This time around – and I think we're on the 22nd remake now – they've steampunked it, gussying it up with much retro-futuristic silliness and cheap-looking CGI, anachronistic weaponry and ordnance, by-the-numbers action-heroics, and a sky teeming with armadas of heavily armoured hot-air balloons reminiscent of Zeppelins.
This steampunk take on The Three Musketeers doesn't buckle my swash
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One armoured column attempted to blast a path through a barricade of buses and trucks.
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Soldiers in armoured vehicles and Humvees cordoned off the area.
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Israel would then deploy around 30,000 paratroopers, infantry and armoured brigades.
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In ten minutes the so-called armoured plate was riddled.
The Kangaroo Marines
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During the 1926 General Strike I remember standing in Commercial Street as troops went by in armoured cars to go to the docks.
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The road into Nablus circuits the gaping carcasses of buildings that, I am told, have been destroyed by tanks; the road itself is cracked by the passage of heavily armoured tanks.
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Warrior armoured vehicles are stripped down and loaded up.
Times, Sunday Times
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So is the failure to deliver properly armoured personnel carriers.
The Sun
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It has bulletproof windows and walls, an independent telecom system, armoured doors and a lounge just for your bodyguards.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Cavalry commander had the armoured cars with him and was later reinforced by 1,500 infantry soldiers who were sent forward in Ford cars.
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Equally vulnerable to human weapons are the armoured giants of the animal world, the rhinos and the elephants.
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Crabs are nocturnal and cautious with an armoured shell and soft, fleshy insides.
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Special forces troops loyal to Mr Gbagbo fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a UN armoured personnel carrier, seriously wounding four peacekeepers carrying out a humanitarian mission, the UN said.
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German reconnaissance had missed the presence of a newly detrained Siberian division in the area, and an accompanying armoured brigade with a full roster of the relatively new and highly manoeuvrable T-34s.
Sealing Their Fate
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Cargo helicopters are heavier models capable of carrying 60 troops, lightly armoured vehicles, or underslung loads such as artillery and munitions.
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An armoured personnel carrier and an infantry fighting vehicle rumbled forward past the checkpoint.
Times, Sunday Times
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His car was mud-splattered, parked amongst the jeeps and armoured personnel carriers, a hundred yards from the helicopter pad.
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Slowed by heavy rains, the convoy was shielded by helicopter gunships and armoured personnel carriers.
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Battlecruisers are the size of battleships but more lightly armoured, so they have the speed of a cruiser.
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A few days later Churchill was himself taken prisoner when the armoured train that he was travelling on was ambushed at Chieveley.
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The soldier selects top attack mode to engage tanks and armoured vehicles in order to strike the least armoured area on the vehicle's roof.
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In 1930 Weygand launched a programme to motorize seven infantry divisions and he initiated the creation of an armoured division in the cavalry in October 1933.
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It is a tracked, armoured, amphibious vehicle designed to engage armoured ground and air targets while stationary, on the move and afloat.
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An ordinary draw weight bow say 50 lb or so will kill an animal or an unarmoured man; a bodkin point with the same can kill a man in mail; but when plate armour appears on the scene you need a much higher draw weight bow to penetrate it, and consequently more powerful bows and the archers to go with them are needed.
Bowmen in medieval Wales
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In-line transmission is by four central axles protected by armoured housings.
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As the deadline expired yesterday, troops and armoured vehicles moved onto the streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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The actress is demure and doe-eyed but armoured with immaculate grooming as San Francisco's top wedding planner.
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Radio communications in armoured units were therefore paralleled in artillery and tactical aviation and allowed for intercommunication between them.
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As the protest grew, the troops came in with automatic weapons, armoured vehicles and teargas.
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Near the residential apartments he had seen an exploded armoured carrier, and more dead soldiers.
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Warrior armoured vehicles are stripped down and loaded up.
Times, Sunday Times
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They had to be conveyed to the stadium in an armoured car.
Times, Sunday Times
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The spiked pad ripped through the Daughter's blouse, and grated on the armoured contour-girdle underneath.
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He had twice been riding in an armoured vehicle that struck an improvised explosive device, and was injured once in friendly fire.
Times, Sunday Times
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Armoured figures started to head for the bridge, swords and firebrands ready.
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It is interesting to guess for oneself and to speculate upon the possibility of a kind of armoured mother-ship for waterplanes and submarines and torpedo craft, but necessarily that would be a mere journalistic and amateurish guessing.
An Englishman Looks at the World
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One has to wonder how the Iraqi's will feel about having to wait for their equipment when they too are driving around in armoured Land Rovers - with the same tragic results experienced by the British Army – and are expected to take on increasing responsibility for patrolling from the British.
I got it wrong
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It includes squadrons of tanks, Stryker armoured fighting vehicles, infantry and ground artillery, backed by helicopter gunships and fighter-bombers.
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The western ideal of chivalrous behaviour in warriors, now extensive to all soldiers, continues to be honoured centuries after the disappearance of the armoured knight.
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This was exactly what the tank and armoured infantry battalions were designed to do, and they did it brilliantly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Armoured warfare on the plains of west and central Europe is very different from internal security operations in an urban area or patrolling across desert wastes in the sub-Sahara.
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The drivetrain and steering linkages are protected within the armoured hull.
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Numerous people ran past them in the opposite direction, fully armoured and ready to repel the attack.
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Sophisticated hardware including helicopters, tanks and armoured vehicles is often useless because it is an easy target for enemies.
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The survivors couldn't manoeuvre their armoured personnel carriers down the narrow sandy alleys.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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German reconnaissance had missed the presence of a newly detrained Siberian division in the area, and an accompanying armoured brigade with a full roster of the relatively new and highly manoeuvrable T-34s.
Sealing Their Fate
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The live-fire activity included combining mechanised and armoured stages of gunnery and their corresponding tactical stages.
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The powerful blast tore through the steel reinforced Warrior armoured fighting vehicle the troops were travelling in, blowing the wheels off on one side and forcing it into a ditch.
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He criticised France's reliance on the Maginot Line for defence against Germany and called for the formation of mechanised armoured columns.
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Stormer 30 is a highly mobile armoured reconnaissance vehicle and light tank.
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Lightly armoured and equipped with lance and hand weapon , horseman excel at harassing enemy flanks.
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They wore boiled leather breastplates and metal helms, but other than that, were unarmoured.
TREASON KEEP
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It has an unmanned turret, radar used in fighter jets and an armoured capsule for crew.
The Sun
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He ticks off the armoured vehicles captured and destroyed and outlines the group's tactics.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now they can't safely enter the town even in armoured vehicles.
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He had twice been riding in an armoured vehicle that struck an improvised explosive device, and was injured once in friendly fire.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police with guns and batons lined the way, together with armoured vehicles, razor wire and concrete barricades.
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A pair of Uyzes, old Russian jeep versions of the Dormobile, were parked outside, armoured and jacked up on high wheels as if once designed for use as landing craft.
Wildwood
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Black-armoured warriors burned the sacred groves.
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The survivors couldn't manoeuvre their armoured personnel carriers down the narrow sandy alleys.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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On their barrels the crews have nicknamed their armoured behemoths.
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I could see the ankle-length gambeson as a great base for any kind of armoured character, honestly.
Thoughts on lrp and characters
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Armoured vehicles and troop carriers were destroyed or damaged.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Ozelot Weapon System is built on the Wiesel 2 small armoured tracked vehicle.
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Boffins at Britain's Ministry of Defence have invented an electric ‘force field’ designed to protect armoured vehicles against anti-tank grenades.
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If a shotgun is held up against a door, the rounds will go through 65 mm-thick timber, steel-plated fire doors or armoured glass.
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An armoured battalion was sent to relieve the besieged town.
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He had twice been riding in an armoured vehicle that struck an improvised explosive device, and was injured once in friendly fire.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps the Hood didn't deserve that epitaph, but since her launch in 1891, the 14,150 ton armoured monster had become known throughout the fleet as a good looker, but a lousy sailer.
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Early this March, this armoured car was quietly transported to the Artillery Museum, and the exhibition stands were dismantled.
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The armoured vehicles are heavily protected by grilles to prevent damage from missiles and petrol bombs.
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The 2 nd army consists of three armoured divisions.
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An armed attack on an armoured security van carrying thousands in cash was foiled by undercover police.
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It is at its best when he is describing natural phenomena, from the insect trill which is "like some great tinnitus", through the "black fists" of bats, swooping and darting, to the beetle which runs along the gunwale of a pirogue, "dense, heavy armoured, a brutal tank on tiny legs".
The Devil's Garden by Edward Docx – review
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Other reports indicated that hundreds of people were being indiscriminately mowed down by tanks and armoured vehicles in various suburbs.
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Armoured cars were brought in.
The Sun
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It has bulletproof windows and walls, an independent telecom system, armoured doors and a lounge just for your bodyguards.
Times, Sunday Times
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One has to wonder how the Iraqi's will feel about having to wait for their equipment when they too are driving around in armoured Land Rovers - with the same tragic results experienced by the British Army – and are expected to take on increasing responsibility for patrolling from the British.
I got it wrong
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Unfortunately, the 7th Armoured proved incapable of wresting Point 175 from the numerically inferior Ariete, and the South Africans debouched on to the Trigh Capuzzo seven miles further west, only to fall back after a single skirmish.
Sealing Their Fate
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As the deadline expired yesterday, troops and armoured vehicles moved onto the streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the road to the town lie the burnt remnants of tanks and armoured cars targeted by the allied aircraft.
The Sun
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One armoured column attempted to blast a path through a barricade of buses and trucks.
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The British army is among those which have retained the term squadron to describe subunits of armoured regiments.
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Shells exploded without warning among the armoured columns, every stretch of open road was a potential trap.
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One of the armoured ones sported the gold chevrons of an officer on his cuirass.
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One was killed in an ambush on a convoy, and two died when their armoured vehicle hit a landmine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only 'the ungarbed entity within' armed with the divine strength, courage and unconditional love can act in this world free from sorrow and 'armoured against all fear'.
Archive 2005-12-01
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It is a picture of a lone woman standing between two armoured vehicles, the notorious 'hippos', as they rolled into Soweto.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Pilger: Honouring the 'unbreakable promise'
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Vast and powerfully armoured divisions, miraculously supplied, would appear and drive up from the south to relieve the stricken army.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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He played five-a-side footie with soldiers and rode armoured cars.
The Sun
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Armoured vehicles and troop carriers were destroyed or damaged.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stormer 30 is a highly mobile armoured reconnaissance vehicle and light tank.
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A gang of bank robbers come up with a plan for a lucrative armoured car heist, but a determined police officer is closing in on them.
The Sun
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The police used armoured vehicles and tear gas to contain the protesters who were armed with rocks and petrol bombs.
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The division's long columns of trucks and Humvee armoured vehicles avoided Iraqi army and paramilitary units as they pushed north on Thursday and Friday.
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In a related story, also in the Telegraph, it seems that the army is to modify 234 tanks - the equivalent of two armoured brigades - for use in desert conditions.
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During this period the agnathan and gnathostome fishes, too, gave rise to many distinctive groups: the armoured ostracoderm and placoderms, the bony fishes, and elasmobranchs to populate marine and freshwater environments.
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A little further aft, pintles and ammunition for machine guns and rapid-firing anti-aircraft guns lie on the seabed, with a gun and its armoured shield among the debris.
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The armoured shrouds on the four turbines looked tattered like ancient lace.
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Crabs are nocturnal and cautious with an armoured shell and soft, fleshy insides.
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Sharpshooters were stationed on rooftops, troops levelled guns from sandbagged windows and armoured vehicles rumbled through the streets of Jamaica's capital, Kingston, under the protection of a hovering helicopter gunship.
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For many people, the names Derry and Northern Ireland immediately conjure up grainy television images of soldiers on the streets, petrol bomb-lobbing youths, armoured vehicles and palls of smoke.
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Cheap and easy to build, they can tear through the most heavily armoured fighting vehicles.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was designed for air-to-surface use, primarily against armoured shipping targets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Physically, they can only meet behind barricades manned by riot police and soldiers equipped with armoured vehicles and water cannon.
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So is the failure to deliver properly armoured personnel carriers.
The Sun
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The cops were blindfolded and driven off in armoured personnel carriers.
The Sun
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Scottish shock troops wielding a large two - handed sword and armoured in chain.
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Fierce Welsh mercenaries, who fight unarmoured, equipped a spear and capable ofa defensive ring of spears.
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And the worsted wool Guernsey sweater—named after the Channel Island where it's made—was worn by the British Royal Navy in the 19th century and is still sported by the U.K.'s 7th Armoured Brigade aka the "Desert Rats" and the Intelligence Corps.
Foul Weather Sweaters
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The aetosaurs, or Stagonolepididae, were large herbivorous armoured archosaurs, and an important characteristic part of Late Triassic faunas.
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His car was mud-splattered, parked amongst the jeeps and armoured personnel carriers, a hundred yards from the helicopter pad.
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A non-military lorry seen moving towards the armoured column in a greener part of the city was halted in its tracks by overwhelming gunfire.
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Similar choices face our defence industry in areas such as armoured vehicles, surface ships and helicopters.
Times, Sunday Times
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The powerful blast tore through the steel reinforced Warrior armoured fighting vehicle the troops were travelling in, blowing the wheels off on one side and forcing it into a ditch.
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The police used armoured vehicles and tear gas to contain the protesters who were armed with rocks and petrol bombs.
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He fired an experimental burst into the air, and waved his armoured troops forwards like George S. Patton himself.
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Boffins at Britain's Ministry of Defence have invented an electric ‘force field’ designed to protect armoured vehicles against anti-tank grenades.
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Corporal Jones was on an operational tour in East Timor and was travelling in the rear of an armoured vehicle at the time of the incident.
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The scales are covered with ganoin, a dense shiny substance like enamel, which gives the fish an archaic armoured appearance and makes it rather clumsy.
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This has found its modern format in "slatted armour" which can be seen on American Strykers (pictured above left) and British Warriors but, inevitably, cannot be applied to lightly armoured vehicles.
We've been there before
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William Marshal, for instance, did not stop being a knight when caught unarmoured and on foot.
Survived another workshop!
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Normal war tactics involved massed ranks of lightly armed or armoured archers firing large volleys of arrows into formations of targets.
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The Swiss Eagle vehicles designated are mainly deployed as reconnaissance vehicles for the armoured brigades of the Swiss Army.
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On the road to the town lie the burnt remnants of tanks and armoured cars targeted by the allied aircraft.
The Sun
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An armoured police vehicle and paramedics rushed to the scene after being told a woman was not breathing.
The Sun
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The drivetrain and steering linkages are protected within the armoured hull.
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In Europe in the Middle Ages the limitations of the heavily armoured mounted knight were finally exposed by Swiss infantry armed with pikes or halberds and English infantry armed with longbows.
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Israel would then deploy around 30,000 paratroopers, infantry and armoured brigades.
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Chalayan's women's bodies in their hard-shell protection, armoured for flight, also seem isolated in their concentration.
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I could see the ankle-length gambeson as a great base for any kind of armoured character, honestly.
Thoughts on lrp and characters
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British troops and armoured cars then surrounded the royal palace and Lampson demanded Farouk's abdication.
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Armoured vans patrol Manchester estate Armoured vans are patrolling an estate in Manchester following three separate shotgun attacks.
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Parramatta residents were treated to the thud of 600 boots on bitumen, the purr of diesels from six tracked armoured personnel carriers, the drone of engines of two RAAF.
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A warning shot was fired but he fled when none of the heavily armoured commandos was able to give chase.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Fifth Armoured Division was based at Fort Knox.
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Cheap and easy to build, they can tear through the most heavily armoured fighting vehicles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Furthermore, the bulk of soldiers over term have been killed while riding in unarmoured or lightly armoured vehicles, including three soldiers in British military Land Rovers (including the incident illustrated above).
Curious…
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This is characterized by a diversity of prehistoric armoured fish known as placoderms (principally, arthrodires)
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The Fourth Armoured Division was based at Fort Benning.
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It was the decisive land battle of the Second World War and saw armoured and aerial clashes on a ferocious scale.
