They, like yourselves, are vulnerable flesh, Not adamant or steel.
Their garrisons are protected against the fire of small arms and from shrapnel bullets, but they are very vulnerable to other forms of artillery fire.
One of the most anxious times before him will be when the Main Body is passing through a defile, as such a passage will not only delay its march but will make its columns particularlyvulnerable and helpless.
On the Lines of Communications raids from the air or land may always be expected in Manoeuvre Warfare, and one flank is usually more vulnerable than the other.
During the battle they will frustrate the efforts of opposing mounted troops, will protect a vulnerable flank, and will assist generally by dismounted fire action.
Has the burdock any vulnerable spot they wondered?
Find out if he has a "tendon of Achilles" or vulnerable spot.
It was the cabin's vulnerable point, and he sprang out of line with it as a second bullet crashed through and buried itself in the log wall at their backs.
He could stand a hundred blows like that--a grim and ferocious Achilles with but one vulnerable point, the end of his jaw.
Parapets were thrown up upon every vulnerable point, guns mounted, and, above all, no efforts were spared to organize the numerous but somewhat doubtful forces of the Canadian peasantry.
The monster's head and neck were scarce vulnerablefor bone and masses of hair.
Gerard followed the indication, and after some research discovered that the fortification had one vulnerable part, a small, low door on its flank.
Tutchin's aim is to compare vulnerable nature with vulnerable man: "Can humane Race / Stand on their / Legs when Nature Reels?
He tried his best to get her to talk to him, but some cloud of timid aloofness on her part seemed to hang between them, and very soon below the copse they came to the one vulnerable part in all the haw-haw's length.
They take the public money into their hands for the most laudable purpose that wise heads and honest hearts can dictate; but, before they can possibly get it out again, their rascally vulnerable heels will run away with them.
Every variety of danger was arising at once; the tempest was concentrated upon the vulnerable point; destruction was imminent.
The cephaloptera, in fact, is only vulnerable through the head.
To increase the reliance of free-world nations on the bloc for markets or supplies, and thus make the free world more vulnerable to bloc pressures.
Barry's shot rang out simultaneously with the singing snap of a Manila strand, and the heavy bullet chugged home in the vulnerable skin on the alligator's throat.
He well knew the improbability of hitting a vulnerable spot in a swimming alligator; his marksmanship was scarcely equal to the certainty of finding one of those wicked, armor-lidded eyes.
Then Salman, a Persian, and one skilled in war, suggested that their stronghold should be further defended by a trench dug at the most vulnerable parts of the city's outposts.
It was a vulnerable spot which made the day-nursery just a little uneasy at dusk--this and the cistern cupboard with its dark boomings and hammerings and clankings and utter inexplicableness.
His object was to claw the eye of his adversary; for he well knew that the latter was vulnerable neither upon its long snout, nor its gaunt jaws, nor even upon the tough scaly skin of its throat.
Instinct seemed to teach it that this was a vulnerable part, and for the purpose of reaching the tail, it constantly kept crawling and edging round towards it.
The puma, seeing the snout, the most vulnerable part, uncovered, launched himself forward like an arrow, and caught hold of it in his bristling fangs.
No decencies restrained him: his spite was implacable: his skill in finding out the vulnerable parts of strong minds was consummate.
And just when they would be much more vulnerable to attack, following the pope from one city to another.
Mali is heavily dependent on foreign aid and vulnerable to fluctuations in world prices for cotton, its main export.
Over 80% of the population is engaged in subsistence agriculture which is highly vulnerable to variations in rainfall.
In the absence of other natural resources - except energy - Iceland's economy is vulnerable to changing world fish prices.
Commercial and transport activities, which make up a large part of GDP, are extremely vulnerable to developments in Nigeria as evidenced by decreased reexport trade in 1994 due to a severe contraction in Nigerian demand.
The country enjoys a healthy trade surplus of $500 million, yet its heavy dependence on oil and petrochemical prices makes its trade balance vulnerable to sudden shifts.
Moreover, the small, vulnerableeconomy has suffered because the Turkish lira is legal tender.
His amazing egotism was his one vulnerable point, the single blind spot on his crafty powers of reasoning--and that egotism would sway and bend to any seeming of relenting in her.
The two rolled in an embrace that strained ribs inward on panting lungs, leg locking leg, and fingers clutching for a vulnerable hold.
They were bare, with vulnerable joints, but they had the advantage of a pair of hands, and long, mobile arms, which could quickly and skilfully pluck an attacking ant from any part of their anatomy.
The antennæ and the abdomen petiole are the only vulnerable portions of an Atta, and long after he has lost these apparently dispensable portions of his anatomy, he is able to walk, fight, and continue an active but erratic life.
He raised the sword again and thrust, managing this time to reach the vulnerable spot.
He tried again to touch the vulnerable spot with no other result than a bellow of pain from the animal, tortured by this martyrdom.
Then, too, he is extremely vulnerableto the effect of enemy shells and to the ramming of enemy ships.
In general this is a safe rule to follow, for these are always the most vulnerable portions of every heavily laden vessel, and this mode of attack is nearly invariably successful.
I naturally did not gratify his wish to place it there himself, for I knew myself very accurately the most vulnerable spot in the ship.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vulnerable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
