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Example sentences for: shield

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

Why would we want to shield jurors from perfectly good reasoning just because it happens to arise not in the courtroom but in an editorial or over the dinner table?
One complaint: The story relies on the phrase "Medicare contractors" in the early going, holding off until the ninth paragraph before using any actual names of offending companies: "Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Colorado and New Mexico Blue Cross and Blue Shield."
As this shield is experimentally removed through deletion of CSN subunits, Pcu3p may accumulate in the neddylated state.
She was one strong woman, and humor was her shield.
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.