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Example sentences for "unfortified"

Lexicographically close words:
unforgiving; unforgotten; unformed; unformulated; unforseen; unfortunate; unfortunately; unfortunates; unfossiliferous; unfounded
  1. The peace sophists often refer to the unfortified border-line between the United States and Canada as an argument in favor of the abolition of armaments throughout the world.

  2. Hearts Unfortified THE observation train wound its way in clumsy writhings along the bank of the river, upon which the afternoon light fell in modified brilliancy as the west kindled towards the sunset.

  3. During a thick fog the Germans got into the Gulf on the 16th, and two days later tried to land troops at an unfortified port on the road to Petrograd.

  4. The Burgomaster claimed for the citizens their rights under the laws of war regulating an unfortified capital.

  5. Your Government has bombarded unfortified seacoast towns which Americans know from personal observation, both before the war and during the bombardment, were not defended in any way.

  6. The besiegers' works were, indeed, unfinished; but every day the unfortified interval in their lines grew narrower, and with it diminished all apparent hope of safety for the beleaguered town.

  7. To devastate a country you have sworn to protect, to drop bombs upon unfortified cities, to lay sunken mines, to levy blackmail by threatening hostages with death, to destroy cathedrals is not to fight fair.

  8. The Germans would not bombard an unfortified town.

  9. Lyncus was the name of the whole district, and not of any one city, as in early times there were only unfortified villages in this part.

  10. From San Domingo they went on to Carthagena on the mainland of South America, at that time a small unfortified town of a few hundred inhabitants.

  11. He sailed twice to the Spanish Main, burning and plundering small towns, taking water and provisions at unfortified places, but attempting nothing against the great port of Carthagena.

  12. You cannot possibly mean to bombard an undefended and unfortified town!

  13. It had taken the latter by the simple method of steaming in, for this “naval station” was only an unfortified harbor.

  14. Being an unfortified town Scarborough will not be favoured with the attentions of the Teutons.

  15. It was an easy matter to steal over an unfortified town or village and drop explosives; but for once the Germans were to learn the wisdom of discrimination.

  16. The unfortified houses, thirty-two in number, together with twenty-five barns, were burned by the savages.

  17. They immediately set fire to twelve unfortified buildings, and attacked several palisaded dwelling-houses.

  18. As units in a Turkish fleet they bombarded unfortified ports on the Black Sea on the first day of the month.

  19. I need hardly say that I do not, as Captain James supposes, contend "that unfortified towns will never be bombarded or ransomed.

  20. But it must be specially observed that it matters not whether the defended locality be fortified or not, since an unfortified place can be defended.

  21. Surely it is high time we made it clearly known that any repetition of the bombardment of an unfortified area would be followed by reprisals of the most merciless nature.

  22. The bombardment of unfortified and undefended towns and places for the nonpayment of ransom is forbidden.

  23. The position of Sparta, an unfortified city surrounded by numerous enemies, compelled the Spartans to be a nation of soldiers.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unfortified" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.