Sample Sentences for
vulnerable
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    The team's preferred style of defense is vulnerable to good outside shooters.
    vulnerable to = easily hurt by
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    Her argument is vulnerable to refutation.
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    As silence again settled over the glacier, I felt abandoned, vulnerable, lost.  (source)
    vulnerable = easy to hurt
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    Feeling too vulnerable on the ground with my lopsided hearing, I scale a tree to wait.  (source)
    vulnerable = easy to be hurt
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    But those less inclined toward their culture's prejudices may still have been vulnerable to the call to brutality.  (source)
    vulnerable to = easily influenced or tempted by
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    Perhaps he felt that even a person as despicable as T.J. needed someone he could call "friend," or perhaps he sensed T.J.'s vulnerability better than T.J. did himself.  (source)
    vulnerability = ability to be easily hurt
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    It's a matter of not allowing it to use your vulnerabilities against you.†  (source)
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    Such a lien is not to be paid off; the more you pay them, the more they will demand; the greater the values you seek or achieve, the more vulnerably helpless you become.†  (source)
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    She looked so vulnerable in the monstrous doorway.  (source)
    vulnerable = easy to be hurt
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    We're totally vulnerable to cyberattack on a massive scale, but they're much less exposed.†  (source)
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    You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.†  (source)
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    With a typical Fortune 500 company using thousands of individual software programs, the list of vulnerabilities often hovered in the tens of thousands at any given moment.†  (source)
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    The married copywriters met their secretaries, or the secretaries of other writers, or the tall and lissome secretaries of account executives, white-shod and well-spoken, and went about the tender regimen of their lunchtime love—the nooner, it was called, or the matinee—meeting in the secretaries' snug apartments, striking in their dimensional similarity to the cubicles the writers worked in, only decorated more touchingly and vulnerably, with posters of Madrid on the off-white walls, or prints of Marino Marini horses or Bernard Buffet lobsters, or in the larger apartments of secretaries with roommates, which complicated the schedule and made the writers yearn for an intimate glimpse of one†  (source)
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