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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
  • You are so tiny and vulnerable.   (source)
    vulnerable = easily hurt
  • One by one, the renegade aimed the point of his blade at the soldiers' upper chests, their single vulnerable spot...   (source)
    vulnerable = easy to hurt
  • In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.   (source)
    vulnerable = easily influenced
  • It seemed that now, Kya being more vulnerable than ever, was reason to trust others even less.†   (source)
  • She doesn't want to feel he is in any way vulnerable.†   (source)
  • The first news she would have to give Edgar was of Almondine; how vulnerable he would be to it.†   (source)
  • His voice is different: it's ragged and urgent and vulnerable somehow.†   (source)
  • Being vulnerable is asking to get used.†   (source)
  • The lower-orbit spy satellites of the Soviet Revisionists are even more vulnerable.†   (source)
  • A 'zero-day' is a software vulnerability that isn't yet documented.†   (source)
  • During my time away, Mamaw showed vulnerability that I'd never seen before.†   (source)
  • We loved the neighborhood we were living in, and we loved our house, but we couldn't see keeping Cassie in such a vulnerable position.†   (source)
  • The others won't be as jealous if you show some vulnerability.†   (source)
  • Wes joked about it, putting on a charade around his friends, but it was the most uncomfortable and vulnerable he had ever felt.†   (source)
  • His body had been weakened, the ocean had left him vulnerable, pneumonia took hold of him, and in time, he died.†   (source)
  • The big eyes and lips said: I'm young and vulnerable, I can't hurt you, and you want to protect me.†   (source)
  • It is about how easily we condemn people in this country and the injustice we create when we allow fear, anger, and distance to shape the way we treat the most vulnerable among us.†   (source)
  • He looked vulnerable, pitiably bewildered, almost harmless.†   (source)
  • It was as if being ill had finally made him vulnerable.†   (source)
  • You are twice as vulnerable.†   (source)
  • But if making myself vulnerable meant he'd be brave, I'd endure it.†   (source)
  • "Yeah," said Harry, "maybe....He usually kept his wand with him at all times in the wizarding world, and finding himself without it in the midst of a scene like this made him feel very vulnerable.†   (source)
  • Day's eyes look so terrified—so vulnerable—that suddenly it takes all my strength to lie to him.†   (source)
  • Never in his life had he felt so exposed, so vulnerable, so helpless.†   (source)
  • If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I'll have to risk it.†   (source)
  • VULNERABLE!†   (source)
  • Her long pale neck seems to him, as it passes, incredibly vulnerable.†   (source)
  • The trees are injured already; they're weak and vulnerable.†   (source)
  • His scouts have an uncanny nose for vulnerable children.†   (source)
  • They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf's evil in loco parentis ways.†   (source)
  • And there was nothing akin to softness in him anywhere, no part of him that was vulnerable.†   (source)
  • SHE WAS FUNNY AND SEXY—AND SHE WAS VULNERABLE, TOO.†   (source)
  • Do you want us blind or vulnerable?†   (source)
  • He looked somehow smaller and more vulnerable, like the youth she had wed in the sept at Riverrun, fifteen long years gone.†   (source)
  • First off, I don't go through the line for anything, to avoid that vulnerable moment of coming out into the lunchroom, that moment when every head lifts and evaluates: friend, enemy, or loser.†   (source)
  • It was a vulnerability we were all born with, one that literally grew into an adult's hardheadedness.†   (source)
  • Cassie, they have to get the most vulnerable to safety first.†   (source)
  • He was vulnerable there, because to me they were all pretty much alike—Voltaire and Moliere and the laws of motion and the Magna Carta and the Pathetic Fallacy and Tess of the d'Urbervilles—and I worked indiscriminately on all of them.†   (source)
  • Pretending in words was too tentative, too vulnerable, too embarrassing to let anyone know.†   (source)
  • Because I knew my feelings for him were vulnerable to being felled by my mother's suspicions, passing remarks, and innuendos.†   (source)
  • I feel like I'm vulnerable to more tears when he holds me because he feels so comforting.†   (source)
  • It was lovely, left him vulnerable and quivering on some edge and all he could hope was that if he begged him, my father would oblige and do it again.†   (source)
  • Still tense, but not as vulnerable as before.†   (source)
  • The moments of exposure—of dashing from cover to cover—grow longer as the trees begin to thin out, and the whole time we're getting closer and closer to the line where the fringe of grass and growth disappears altogether and we will have to move out in the open, completely vulnerable.†   (source)
  • Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh.†   (source)
  • It didn't make him invincible to the whims of the Nazi occupiers, but it made him a lot less vulnerable than he had been when he was unemployed.†   (source)
  • I don't know ...vulnerable.†   (source)
  • Everyone felt vulnerable, and no one wanted to say anything that would cause trouble.†   (source)
  • For all their busy, metallic features, there was something sweet, even vulnerable about each of them.†   (source)
  • So I went to the fridge and found my carton of leftover lo mein from the night before and wolfed it at the counter, standing vulnerable and exposed in the glare from the overhead bulb.†   (source)
  • Still seemed vulnerable.†   (source)
  • We're still unsure of ourselves and are too vulnerable, emotionally, to be dealt with so roughly.†   (source)
  • He saw that these people are the most vulnerable, the most disliked by the local population.†   (source)
  • Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated her and sometimes made her want to hurt them—just as an education, a protection.†   (source)
  • While the outpost was isolated and vulnerable, Rat said, he always felt a curious sense of safety there.†   (source)
  • Hannah thought they looked so vulnerable, so helpless.†   (source)
  • Or would I appear somewhere else naked and totally vulnerable?†   (source)
  • Without them he felt exposed and vulnerable, like a mouse under an eagle's keen eye.†   (source)
  • A good-looking, vulnerable man—and fine, he may have killed his wife, but we don't know that.†   (source)
  • He paused, and for a brief moment his stunning face was unexpectedly vulnerable.†   (source)
  • He sounds so young and vulnerable, like Teddy used to sound when he got the stomach flu.†   (source)
  • He was the way she had said, vulnerable, fragile.†   (source)
  • Ashoke was always devastated when Akaky was robbed in "a square that looked to him like a dreadful desert," leaving him cold and vulnerable, and Akaky's death, some pages later, never failed to bring tears to his eyes.†   (source)
  • Never during their escape were they more vulnerable and alone.†   (source)
  • But we learned the value of being vulnerable enough to let others be strong for us, to let others bless us.†   (source)
  • The Mogadorians had planned well, picking that exact moment when they knew we were at our most vulnerable, when the planet's Elders were gone.†   (source)
  • I don't like to walk that way because I feel vulnerable.†   (source)
  • I didn't have to think too hard about it; candles were expensive and vulnerable to drafts, torches were dirty and dangerous.†   (source)
  • Still, the Consul knew, to bring a ship as beautiful and vulnerable as the Yggdrasill-one of only five of its kind-into a war zone was a terrible risk for the Templar Brotherhood.†   (source)
  • Research on inmates would come under scrutiny and start being heavily regulated about fifteen years later, because they'd be considered a vulnerable population unable to give informed consent.†   (source)
  • He also took delight in seeing me writhe in pain, cry or cower, vulnerable to his own inflated sense of power.†   (source)
  • His presence made the difference between us feeling vulnerable or secure in our own home.†   (source)
  • Ironically, their symbols of power—BMW, Rolex watch, money, expensive clothes—don't help them a bit and actually make them more vulnerable.†   (source)
  • Practically nothing else can grow in the desert, so this plant is especially vulnerable to plant-eating animals.†   (source)
  • She seemed especially vulnerable to the isolation we were all struggling to cope with.†   (source)
  • Are the young and brave as vulnerable as the old and slow?†   (source)
  • So now you're vulnerable-all hackers are vulnerable—to a nam-shub.†   (source)
  • He was angry because Antonio had said what he'd said and then struck him; he was confused because he was newly vulnerable.†   (source)
  • The other danger is that I might make myself vulnerable.†   (source)
  • Some vulnerability lay across the bridge of the nose, above the cheeks.†   (source)
  • It is when she is at her most vulnerable, Scathach said.†   (source)
  • I ALWAYS SEEMED MORE VULNERABLE AT HOME.†   (source)
  • But this was not the moment to say so, to explain, immobilized and vulnerable as I was.†   (source)
  • The camp was in some ways like a trading post in an old-time gold rush, and much was for sale or barter, from sweaters to mobile phones to antibiotics to, quietly, sex and drugs, and there were families with an eye on the future and gangs of young men with an eye on the vulnerable and upright folks and swindlers and those who had risked their lives to save their children and those who knew how to choke a man in the dark so he never made a sound.†   (source)
  • And I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read.†   (source)
  • Lena turned around in her orange plastic chair, and for a second she looked as vulnerable as she felt.†   (source)
  • Not only did the QRF leave their pilot and copilot vulnerable, they also endangered the Pakistanis and UAE forces protecting them on the ground.†   (source)
  • And the worry came where he was most vulnerable.†   (source)
  • The spider is on its back and fatly vulnerable, struggling to find its pointed feet and scurry back into the air.†   (source)
  • Now, I wasn't that vulnerable.†   (source)
  • He sensed vulnerability, sensed it the way another man might capture the trace of a woman's perfume.†   (source)
  • Jack had rediscovered his vulnerability to seasickness.†   (source)
  • As Tutsis from Kivu, the Balegamires were especially vulnerable.†   (source)
  • It was as if in horror she forgot her own vulnerable position.†   (source)
  • He grabbed her wrist, turned it over so the white, vulnerable flesh of her inner arm lay bare under the moonlight.†   (source)
  • She looked small and vulnerable under the pale green sheet as the orderly wheeled her down the hall toward the pediatric intensive care unit.†   (source)
  • The room then became vulnerable to dust, heat, termites, red ants, and moths, who would turn the wisdom of the parchments into sawdust.†   (source)
  • Just when the boat was most vulnerable, a large swell crashed against the hull.†   (source)
  • Vulnerable.†   (source)
  • She felt him putting something around her ankles, spread her legs apart and tie them so that she was lying there completely vulnerable.†   (source)
  • How his pupils must have shrunk and then dilated, open and vulnerable.†   (source)
  • If there is one thing she hates most about being in the foster care system, it's this dependence on people you barely know, your vulnerability to their whims.†   (source)
  • He looked vulnerable and scared.†   (source)
  • The most concerning part, though, was finding Jessica, who she felt would be the most vulnerable, especially because she was separated from her siblings.†   (source)
  • I don't know what made me do it now; perhaps Grandfather's death and what I've read in the woods have left me on edge and vulnerable.†   (source)
  • The "permission" given by an initial act of suicide, in other words, isn't a general invitation to the vulnerable.†   (source)
  • To Jaime, her vulnerability was more seductive than anything that had attracted him before.†   (source)
  • Not only was he a dimwit, he was vulnerable.†   (source)
  • I feel so helpless and vulnerable.†   (source)
  • Of these he has allowed only one element, vulnerability, to insert itself gradually into his program of straightforward lust.†   (source)
  • He saw their vulnerability and they saw his.†   (source)
  • As she talked she was aware of David's gaze growing more intent, somehow deeply vulnerable.†   (source)
  • The hands were the weak point, the most vulnerable part of the suit, because of what they handled.†   (source)
  • Still, the women felt vulnerable.†   (source)
  • I wasn't paranoid to the point that I thought Patch meant me harm, but somehow, my medical condition was a vulnerability that felt better kept secret.†   (source)
  • But even the most heavily guarded fast food restaurants remain vulnerable.†   (source)
  • He had become childlike: weak, frightened, vulnerable.†   (source)
  • Kathy thought that the main part of the manuscript, which was buried under the pipe, would probably be safe, but that the other two were vulnerable.†   (source)
  • It seemed to Dina that she might be just as vulnerable if she stayed, so she chose to return to the maelstrom of Kindu.†   (source)
  • Now, whenever there was the slightest threat of illness, anyone infected was quarantined, kept far from the rest of the Colony's vulnerable population—the last of the human race.†   (source)
  • As if Seth's estate were now available and thus vulnerable.†   (source)
  • Although I caught her at a time when she's vulnerable and still shaking from seeing my blood.†   (source)
  • Slocan greening in spring is vulnerable as birth, the bright yellow-green turning steadily deeper into shades of blue.†   (source)
  • Her surgical field was as neat and tidy as an anatomical demonstration with vulnerable structures carefully identified and moved out of harm's way and with bleeding meticulously controlled.†   (source)
  • Despite the two layers of pants between us, I feel naked and vulnerable.†   (source)
  • They were so innocent, so vulnerable, so eager to behave decently.†   (source)
  • He was quiet for a second, and I had a flash of his face earlier that night, caught unaware by Don's pronouncements, and the vulnerability I'd seen there.†   (source)
  • This ability to laugh at herself gives Jackie that precious gift of appearing vulnerable and shy, rather than aloof, even as she speaks with an upper-crust accent.†   (source)
  • He's just as vulnerable, maybe, but the Combine didn't get him.†   (source)
  • It's a matter of knowing the spirit in question, knowing its vulnerability.†   (source)
  • If they're descendents, the next point to figure is if having them here gives us more muscle, or makes us more vulnerable.†   (source)
  • What galls her is how her landlord profits enthusiastically from understanding the vulnerability of his customers.†   (source)
  • I never saw him so vulnerable.†   (source)
  • It brought him face to face with his own vulnerability his own powerlessness.†   (source)
  • Maybe we'll have food in our bellies and a warm place to sleep, but we'll still be out in the open, exposed, vulnerable, loopless ...and Miss Peregrine is ...is still ...†   (source)
  • There was nothing wrong with Pennsatucky that would have prevented her from living a perfectly happy life, but her problems made her vulnerable to drugs and to the men who had them on offer.†   (source)
  • I don't know why I felt something for her, other than she seemed a young, vulnerable woman whose fate had been to fall in love with a monster.†   (source)
  • Annie was touched by how vulnerable he looked in this moment before he saw her, with half his face lit by the sun and his skin so pale it was all but translucent.†   (source)
  • swept through the room, leaving us cold and vulnerable.†   (source)
  • He becomes vulnerable.†   (source)
  • In all my years of knowing her, even as a child in Mother's house, I had never heard her so vulnerable.†   (source)
  • The only time I saw him vulnerable, ever, was that morning when he decided to burn the boat.†   (source)
  • He served the food with such a mournful expression that I thought these people are very vulnerable.†   (source)
  • Now that she lay captive beneath him, he wondered how he would ever escape her without leaving himself vulnerable.†   (source)
  • A thousand feet below, Korphe, green with ripening barley fields, looked small and vulnerable, a life raft adrift on a sea of stone.†   (source)
  • And it was not only the bombers in the air that were vulnerable.†   (source)
  • Upside down his belly looks huge and vulnerable, a smooth expanse of snowy white dotted by black-skinned genitals.†   (source)
  • It was getting a little embarrassing, and Lorenzo was already deeply vulnerable to any mockery.†   (source)
  • Why couldn't I know my dad as this almost vulnerable man?†   (source)
  • Had Alexandra ever pressed Jean Louise's vulnerable points with awareness, she could have added another scalp to her belt, but after years of tactical study Jean Louise knew her enemy.†   (source)
  • And, at least to Carlos, as vulnerable.†   (source)
  • And I'm left alone on the set, exposed and vulnerable.†   (source)
  • Often ill during childhood and still subject to recurring headaches and insomnia, she appeared more delicate and vulnerable than her sisters.†   (source)
  • Girls—so susceptible to weakness from poor food and neglect—never outgrow their vulnerability.†   (source)
  • Who woos vulnerable American girls on foreign trains, lulls them into a false sense of trust, then kills them when they get to their destinations?†   (source)
  • Looking at her now, I'm forced to admit to the vulnerability that she's always been hiding behind every sexual innuendo and under every tight black dress.†   (source)
  • When man encased himself in a metal tube thirty thousand feet above the ground, he was vulnerable.†   (source)
  • They're pink and vulnerable as though they haven't been used much.†   (source)
  • To Stone he seemed painfully vulnerable.†   (source)
  • Do you feel vulnerable?†   (source)
  • Our eyes locked until his height made me strain my neck looking up, my throat so vulnerable to the stroke of a knife that my eyes dropped to the secret death points on the huge body.†   (source)
  • He will be eighteen in January, but he looks younger than that, and vulnerable; yet older at the same time.†   (source)
  • Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.†   (source)
  • Within a month of the disaster at the Navy Festival, the first lumbering grain wagons were on their way to Eddis to resupply the war-strained country, and Sounis's reduced navy had seized two of Attolia's most vulnerable islands.†   (source)
  • He'd had no idea, however, how vulnerable it would make him feel.†   (source)
  • He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.†   (source)
  • She'd taken him back to a point of vulnerability he'd escaped from.†   (source)
  • Told me I was 'his only friend'—and was so open and vulnerable I wanted to bawl.†   (source)
  • And in that awful moment of suspended time, some clockwork part of my brain, some cold, distant, untouched part of my brain told me, The neck will be most vulnerable.†   (source)
  • Monterrey's factories were terrifying in the enormity of scale, which made a man feel small and vulnerable like Lilliputians in a world of Gullivers.†   (source)
  • He felt as vulnerable in the sunlight as a human would in the dark of night.†   (source)
  • He's vulnerable.†   (source)
  • But this moment of utter perfection was as vulnerable to disruption as the mirror-smooth surface of a lake at dawn.†   (source)
  • But I was doing it for the little people everywhere (I don't mean dwarfs-1 just mean, you know, vulnerable people).†   (source)
  • She was maybe five years older than Joe, in her early forties, but a quality of innocence in her knowing eyes and a faint aspect of child-like vulnerability in her otherwise strong face made her seem younger than he was.†   (source)
  • It's the most vulnerable position after the leader!†   (source)
  • The early storm had caught the tree vulnerable with leaves that caught the snow and held it in drifts until the branches dragged the ground.†   (source)
  • I felt vulnerable, exposed, as if someone was out there hidden in the darkness, hidden and waiting.†   (source)
  • Divided America More Vulnerable†   (source)
  • "The SAPL is vulnerable," Tyler said.†   (source)
  • Her beauty and vulnerability cloud your perspective:' "So you think she killed him?"†   (source)
  • As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of glibly undaunted and usually specious evaluations that any legitimate art object is.†   (source)
  • The people here would have been acutely vulnerable to drought, to the one road out being made even temporarily impassable by mud or falling rock.†   (source)
  • I asked, suddenly feeling both nervous and vulnerable.†   (source)
  • For the first time in his life, Cooper was flipped onto his back, vulnerable.†   (source)
  • I'd never felt more vulnerable than I did the moment Derek Novak's electric-blue eyes settled on me.†   (source)
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