Example sentences for: shield

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

  • Curious, since yesterday's award to Boeing of a contract to develop a missile shield could be worth up to $5.

  • The latter highlights European leaders' "serious alarm" at the shield, which could damage military and diplomatic ties across the Atlantic, and (somehow less likely) provoke an arms race with Russia and China.

  • Denver Consortium followed the same pattern: It struck down a restriction on indecent speech because there were other effective alternatives available; but it suggested that such a restriction might be constitutional if it were, in fact, the only effective way to shield children.

  • Now, others came under the shield: former presidents (1961), vice presidents and vice presidents-elect (1962), former presidents' spouses and families (1965), presidential and vice presidential candidates (1968), visiting foreign heads of state (1971), vice presidents' families (1974), foreign diplomatic missions (1975), and spouses of foreign heads of state (1986).

  • ' " The secret formula for the pendant was closely guarded by its U.S. manufacturers, the Bioelectrical Shield Co., the newspaper said, quoting its British representative as saying "he believed that Mrs. Blair had decided to buy one after a recommendation from Hillary Clinton."


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