vulnerable

How To Use vulnerable In A Sentence

• With the loss of so many illusions at once I cannot remember when I have felt so vulnerable or chastened, but neither can I remember when I have felt so alive.
• Often they work in the fields and have to rely on houseboys, who have easy access to vulnerable children left on their own.
• Currently, the Italian-built Panthers are being finished off by BAE Systems, with the additional of a machine gun, radios and other accessories, when they will be delivered to the Army, effectively providing "battlefield limousines" for Ruperts – as officers are dismissively called – while troops are forced to patrol in dangerously vulnerable "Snatch" Land Rovers. Feeding the European fantasy
• The family is the one place that should be a guarantee of safety to its members, especially its most vulnerable members, and this legislation goes part-way towards trying to define that and to defend that right.
• Fire ants feed on almost any plant or animal material, including vulnerable reptile and ground-bird hatchlings.
• Vulnerable people who have committed no crime and pose no threat to society are regularly forced to wait in bare cells before they get specialist treatment.
• The rangers need not fear that they are signing a vulnerable geriatric.
• One of the chief reasons for removing old, oil and gas wells from south Louisiana's lakes and bayous is that those areas are vulnerable to storms and hurricanes, and any collapse in structures could threaten the public, Lopez said. Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Removes Defunct Oil Wells But Hazards Remain
• He played right into my vulnerable defenseless beginner trap.
• Pity the turtles and cherish them, for they too are on the conservationist's list of vulnerable species and in danger of extinction.