Use "defense" in a sentence

1. After which they turned and filed out of the palace making quick steps to their respective Holds to prepare their defenses

2. I let my defenses down, and Sionn

3. defenses, and at the end there was base running

4. But no matter their shape, each tower was similarly outfitted with defenses

5. From their distance, she could see little of the Wall’s defenses other than the northern tower, which was still under construction even twenty years after the Destroyer toppled it with his power

6. As they drew closer, it was obvious the city had been hard at work bolstering its defenses in their absence

7. Firstly, Axel instituted a series of long sweep patrols, on horseback, to ensure that anything that was happening within twenty miles of the village was reported and planned for and, secondly, he and his two friends started putting in more defenses

8. However, the soldiers were under no illusions that their defenses could easily be breached by a determined force of over two hundred armed desperados

9. As long as one attack got through and into the inner defenses then it was game over

10. "Then at least we'll know where to bolster our defenses

11. Now we have food being stored for the winter, running water, defenses

12. perhaps I can assess this world’s defenses

13. To the east of the Last Stand were crowded most of the men in the world, and they faced the ern least of all, so well did the defenses of the Last Stand hold

14. They were coming from the southeast – the weakest point in the castle’s defenses

15. The ern had arrived, and their misleadingly thin bodies were being thrown upon the defenses

16. One must wonder whether, under the Obama administration, such defenses would ever have been mounted

17. defied the odds and made it through the screen of defenses, through the shields, where it had

18. how she proposed to get them past the Unity defenses unscathed

19. Reilly had been running the taxi squad against one of the best defenses in football for the last two seasons

20. Her team – with the necessary arsenal – destroyed the perimeter defenses

21. Crouching as low as my stiff legs would allow me, I crept from tree to tree evaluating Devil’s defenses

22. What if Sicarius had found a breach in Myll’s house defenses and gone inside? What if he had been caught? What if, even now, under the influence of some magical torture, Akstyr and Sicarius were spilling kegs full of information on the emperor’s drugged state and Amaranthe’s plans? What if—

23. She, too, had hoped he wouldn’t have his defenses up here, in his sanctuary

24. Maybe she could still provide the distraction that would lower Arbitan’s defenses

25. It would be a hard fought battle if they tried today – and come tomorrow, with the mercenaries added to the defenses, it would be nigh impossible

26. Soon Jack and Galeron were off to see to the final updates to the keep’s defenses

27. “How could any help have made it in past our defenses tonight? The odds of that were astronomical!”

28. Many of these defenses were successful, and the victories were celebrated as brave and proper, rather than dismissed as an unusual act for a woman

29. On open ground, I would keep a vigilant eye on my defenses

30. Soviets and Nazis were not the same enemy with the same resources or defenses

31. While skilled at mounting intellectual defenses of racism and slavery, Calhoun had none of Jackson's ability to rally angry poor whites

32. The creatures organized their defenses for a final night's assault

33. When the trap went off, it took me by surprise; the various defenses and built-in mechanisms failed to contain a series of pre-programmed attacks, attacks which could only have been devised by someone intimately familiar with my structure and design

34. Then another, and another as each tested the defenses of his opponent, looking for an opening

35. He had braced himself and he was determined to break down all of her defenses so all could be good again, or at least more real

36. So we began searching for a plan that could save your realm without jeopardizing our own defenses

37. You see, your bombardment attack exploited a big weakness in their defenses; they can only scan for living things

38. “Larath, I had been meaning to ask but never had the time: how did you come up with the name ‘Magi’?” That sent a ripple through his psychic defenses

39. You just need to overwhelm their defenses by coordinating your attacks

40. Their primary weapons will all look very different, but in the end they are all pure energy-based attacks, so your defenses should be structured to take that into account

41. We struggled back and forth with magical attacks and defenses flying all around us, neither making headway for a long time

42. We just kept at him, all our powers combined as one pouring into his defenses, and doing all we could to survive long enough to outlast his shields

43. Soon there were hundreds upon hundreds of bolts of energy pelting him, overpowering his defenses and utterly destroying him

44. “Nothing can get past our defenses

45. Having taken and destroyed the mills, Gonzalo began taking the outer defenses one by one

46. however, at the end of the Spanish American War, Spain officially surrendered San Juan’s defenses to the United States of America

47. The structure is composed of two main compounds: the main castle and the outer defenses

48. 2Brute force is about overpowering the computer’s defenses by using repetition

49. A botnet is a collection of internet-connected computers whose security defenses have

50. “And look how close it came to accomplishing that! I was a hair’s breadth away from killing Talia and Nemia, and then Yazadril would have killed me! When my people learned that my son and I had both been killed here by Yazadril and his family, they would have declared war, and their greater numbers clashing against the defenses of The Nine Valleys would have meant annihilation for all!”

51. “I have hundreds of times his power, but I am not too proud to realize that he is still twice the wizard I will ever be! If he wanted to match me power for power, all he would need to do is to tap the power of the nearest thousand elves, and he is very good at doing that very quickly under battle conditions! He could tap the nearest hundred thousand and overwhelm me completely, but that is not his way! He would have some tiny spell with less force than a falling pebble that would pass unnoticed through my defenses and block the veins in my brain, or something else of similar style!

52. “The other elven nations have similar Wards and defenses, if not of the quality we have here

53. It’s impractical to try to improve the defenses of your beach house without improving the defenses of the entirety of White Sands resort, so that’s what we’re going to do

54. “We’ll stay here until we’re both expert at casting my power and yours as well, especially faster and more powerful defenses

55. Only by sacrificing most of my own defenses could I breach his, and so it was a short and gory struggle indeed

56. “Talia, cast this on the Battle Shield!” he barked as he passed her a very complex compound spell, then as the inferno of incoming spells roared around them he threw his own power into their defenses for the seconds it took her to grasp what she had been given

57. In fact, at this point all three females of the Six are concentrating solely on their mates’ defenses

58. “Our second option is to do nothing more than we are already doing; continuing our efforts to fortify our defenses and ready our militaries

59. “We’ll keep augmenting our defenses until every wall and roof is thick steel and every building is Warded, or until the Nexus is past, whichever comes first

60. We’ll fight in Serminak as long as we can hold the momentum, and hopefully we’ll be able to make it decisive, but if we lose the advantage we’ll run back to our defenses and bleed them for every centimeter of our lands they gain

61. Though estimates would later place their numbers at two hundred and thirty-one thousand Sylvan with twenty-three thousand young dragons, they were almost instantly obliterated by the massive alliance response, and the few spells they’d managed to launch were harmlessly absorbed by the alliance force’s hastily shifted defenses

62. While more substantial than his initial probes of our defenses, they are still comparatively small, and can be counted as acts of psychological warfare, moreso than as acts of conquest

63. “Those of our peoples who are not facing Zarkog’s attackers at any given time send mobile forces to assist those who are, and the rest proceed with further fortifications of their defenses, and the provision of non-combat support

64. “We’ve discovered that the best combination is for the support corps to take care of their battle wizard’s defenses with remotely cast spells, while the battle wizard concentrates on offensive efforts with draw spells

65. “Our defenses become more complete by the minute, and we’ve warned the populace repeatedly to avoid exposing themselves, yet there always seems to be someone who can’t resist checking the health of his cows in their unWarded barn, or trekking to the next street to visit someone, or some such thing

66. Their energies were effortlessly absorbed by Mark and Talia’s defenses and stored

67. Mark furiously cast millions of copies of his automated Force needles, but Zarkog had also changed the style of his defenses, which now extended for half a kilometer around him in every direction

68. Her defenses remained completely intact, but they did her no good now

69. If he took power from his Shields to boost his attack, Zarkog’s Fire would be through his defenses in a blink

70. The team had sounded out external security measures, determined the internal layout and positions of defenses, ammo storage, airplane positioning, and officer bunkers in order to determine where to place the aiming stakes and position the rockets and mortars

71. "Do the President and the SecDef know the Navy has lost over 100 planes in North and South Vietnam these last two years yet supplies and troops are still going into South Vietnam? Do they know the Air Force has lost 280 planes in the same time, yet enemy attacks are increasing in the South? Do they know we, the Navy and the Air Force, have nearly 300 pilots as POWs in a captivity more brutal than the Japanese used in World War Two? And do they know in spite of our efforts and all those losses, we see the defenses in�creasing in North Vietnam? And what about the dead pilots of those 1,000 or so Army helicopters shot down in South Vietnam? Do the President and the SecDef know any of this? And if they do, does it mean anything to them?"

72. What I can say is this: Our Air Force and Navy air crew members are going up against air defenses in many areas worse than anything mounted in World War Two

73. His defenses became quicker and more

74. “None of the Megapolis cities have air defenses

75. that it leaves a blind spot in his defenses

76. We’ll fight in Serminak as long as we can hold the momentum, and hopefully we’ll be able to make it decisive, but if we lose the advantage we’ll run back to our defenses and bleed them for every inch of our lands they gain

77. Mark furiously cast millions of copies of his automated Force needles, but Zarkog had also changed the style of his defenses, which now extended for seventeen hundred feet around him in every direction

78. "Even with all those defenses, those kind of ships are still large with several hull weaknesses and systems vulnerabilities,” said Calvin

79. When the Harbinger didn't respond, Brimm launched fighters, but only fifteen were on standby and they didn't have weapons that could pierce the dreadnought's defenses

80. Friendly? Or did he want to be more than a friend? Sally's warnings, Doris's nasty predictions—had she become vulnerable? Was he covertly insinuating himself into her defenses?

81. Red Shift had contacted the station awhile ago, warning them of the Harbinger’s approach, and they’d confirmed they were deploying defenses and would be on standby