Example sentences for: defenses

How can you use “defenses” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • may experience strong selection for phenotypic variation, for example, to counter improved host defenses, to compete with distinct

  • Western officials were bewildered by Russia's first probe of Western air defenses since the end of the Cold War.

  • In April 1862, a Union naval force led by David G. Farragut capitalized on Confederate unpreparedness and penetrated the defenses of New Orleans.

  • By the 17th century pirate attacks prompted the building of extensive city defenses — colossal forts, a chain across the harbor mouth, and prominent city walls — making Havana the “Bulwark of the West Indies.”

  • ARTHUR: I was thinking more of the Rimbaud scholar whose arabesques cause defenses to wobble like blancmanges.


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