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  • That only lasted while Ender still seemed a victim. Still seemed vulnerable.   (source)
    vulnerable = in need of help
  • 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)
  • These protected their vital parts, which were also scaly, and enormous I might add, but at the same time vulnerable.†   (source)
  • So vulnerable he was with his blue skin in the moonlight and his arm twisted over his face and blood pulsing beneath his skin.†   (source)
  • His voice is different: it's ragged and urgent and vulnerable somehow.†   (source)
  • Being vulnerable is asking to get used.†   (source)
  • Translator's Note: The Third Front program was a secret, military-led industrialization effort during the Cultural Revolution that built factories in China's interior, where they would be less vulnerable to American and Soviet attacks.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • You are twice as vulnerable.†   (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)
  • The others won't be as jealous if you show some vulnerability.†   (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)
  • His body had been weakened, the ocean had left him vulnerable, pneumonia took hold of him, and in time, he died.†   (source)
  • It was as if being ill had finally made him vulnerable.†   (source)
  • He looked vulnerable, pitiably bewildered, almost harmless.†   (source)
  • The big eyes and lips said: I'm young and vulnerable, I can't hurt you, and you want to protect me.†   (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)
  • Her long pale neck seems to him, as it passes, incredibly vulnerable.†   (source)
  • They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf's evil in loco parentis ways.†   (source)
  • Of course I was vulnerable.†   (source)
  • If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I'll have to risk it.†   (source)
  • Never in his life had he felt so exposed, so vulnerable, so helpless.†   (source)
  • But if making myself vulnerable meant he'd be brave, I'd endure it.†   (source)
  • And there was nothing akin to softness in him anywhere, no part of him that was vulnerable.†   (source)
  • The trees are injured already; they're weak and vulnerable.†   (source)
  • It was a vulnerability we were all born with, one that literally grew into an adult's hardheadedness.†   (source)
  • And so Ethel stayed, and my grandmother grew old—old and restless to be entertained; she was vulnerable to invasion by television, too.†   (source)
  • I do know that he's in a vulnerable position right now and if I can use that to my advantage in order to pull the truth from him, then that's what I'm going to do.†   (source)
  • He looked somehow smaller and more vulnerable, like the youth she had wed in the sept at Riverrun, fifteen long years gone.†   (source)
  • Do you want us blind or vulnerable?†   (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)
  • Because I knew my feelings for him were vulnerable to being felled by my mother's suspicions, passing remarks, and innuendos.†   (source)
  • His scouts have an uncanny nose for vulnerable children.†   (source)
  • Day's eyes look so terrified—so vulnerable—that suddenly it takes all my strength to lie to him.†   (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)
  • Pretending in words was too tentative, too vulnerable, too embarrassing to let anyone know.†   (source)
  • Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh.†   (source)
  • Everyone felt vulnerable, and no one wanted to say anything that would cause trouble.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Cassie, they have to get the most vulnerable to safety first.†   (source)
  • I don't know ...vulnerable.†   (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)
  • Hannah thought they looked so vulnerable, so helpless.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He sounds so young and vulnerable, like Teddy used to sound when he got the stomach flu.†   (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)
  • For all their busy, metallic features, there was something sweet, even vulnerable about each of them.†   (source)
  • A good-looking, vulnerable man—and fine, he may have killed his wife, but we don't know that.†   (source)
  • Without them he felt exposed and vulnerable, like a mouse under an eagle's keen eye.†   (source)
  • While the outpost was isolated and vulnerable, Rat said, he always felt a curious sense of safety there.†   (source)
  • I don't like to walk that way because I feel vulnerable.†   (source)
  • He also took delight in seeing me writhe in pain, cry or cower, vulnerable to his own inflated sense of power.†   (source)
  • Or would I appear somewhere else naked and totally vulnerable?†   (source)
  • Some vulnerability lay across the bridge of the nose, above the cheeks.†   (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)
  • His presence made the difference between us feeling vulnerable or secure in our own home.†   (source)
  • I didn't have to think too hard about it; candles were expensive and vulnerable to drafts, torches were dirty and dangerous.†   (source)
  • And the worry came where he was most vulnerable.†   (source)
  • He paused, and for a brief moment his stunning face was unexpectedly vulnerable.†   (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)
  • Ironically, their symbols of power—BMW, Rolex watch, money, expensive clothes—don't help them a bit and actually make them more vulnerable.†   (source)
  • But we learned the value of being vulnerable enough to let others be strong for us, to let others bless us.†   (source)
  • And I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read.†   (source)
  • But this was not the moment to say so, to explain, immobilized and vulnerable as I was.†   (source)
  • It is when she is at her most vulnerable, Scathach said.†   (source)
  • Lena turned around in her orange plastic chair, and for a second she looked as vulnerable as she felt.†   (source)
  • He sensed vulnerability, sensed it the way another man might capture the trace of a woman's perfume.†   (source)
  • Are the young and brave as vulnerable as the old and slow?†   (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)
  • The spider is on its back and fatly vulnerable, struggling to find its pointed feet and scurry back into the air.†   (source)
  • He was the way she had said, vulnerable, fragile.†   (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)
  • That night, she set up her guard post near the window to the side yard where she thought we were most vulnerable.†   (source)
  • I ALWAYS SEEMED MORE VULNERABLE AT HOME.†   (source)
  • Practically nothing else can grow in the desert, so this plant is especially vulnerable to plant-eating animals.†   (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)
  • Never in all the years I'd lived in our select family had I known the fear I'd experienced tonight, the vulnerability, the sheer terror.†   (source)
  • He grabbed her wrist, turned it over so the white, vulnerable flesh of her inner arm lay bare under the moonlight.†   (source)
  • I realize it's ridiculous, but I feel so horribly vulnerable now that I've seen what he is; now that there are no secrets between us.†   (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)
  • Jack had rediscovered his vulnerability to seasickness.†   (source)
  • So now you're vulnerable-all hackers are vulnerable—to a nam-shub.†   (source)
  • To Jaime, her vulnerability was more seductive than anything that had attracted him before.†   (source)
  • I suppose the goatherds had told them we were only four, and Sharmak swiftly guessed we would be vulnerable on the wings.†   (source)
  • As Tutsis from Kivu, the Balegamires were especially vulnerable.†   (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)
  • I feel so helpless and vulnerable.†   (source)
  • The "permission" given by an initial act of suicide, in other words, isn't a general invitation to the vulnerable.†   (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)
  • Never during their escape were they more vulnerable and alone.†   (source)
  • Just when the boat was most vulnerable, a large swell crashed against the hull.†   (source)
  • Yes: it could be more simple and by the same token less 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Not only was he a dimwit, he was vulnerable.†   (source)
  • A simple encounter, yet he felt strangely agitated, exposed and vulnerable, his past rising up like the sea.†   (source)
  • How his pupils must have shrunk and then dilated, open and vulnerable.†   (source)
  • Of these he has allowed only one element, vulnerability, to insert itself gradually into his program of straightforward lust.†   (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)
  • The homes looked solid and prosperous, gave no hint of their vulnerability, and had wonderful views.†   (source)
  • I never saw him so vulnerable.†   (source)
  • Ellis put one hand on her elbow and his face changed as he spoke to her, becoming greedier and more vulnerable.†   (source)
  • Slocan greening in spring is vulnerable as birth, the bright yellow-green turning steadily deeper into shades of blue.†   (source)
  • The hands were the weak point, the most vulnerable part of the suit, because of what they handled.†   (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)
  • Although I caught her at a time when she's vulnerable and still shaking from seeing my blood.†   (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)
  • Still, the women felt vulnerable.†   (source)
  • He had become childlike: weak, frightened, vulnerable.†   (source)
  • And I'm left alone on the set, exposed and vulnerable.†   (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)
  • What galls her is how her landlord profits enthusiastically from understanding the vulnerability of his customers.†   (source)
  • He lives under the same laws, gotta eat, bumps up against the same troubles; these things make him just as vulnerable to the Combine as anybody else, don't they?†   (source)
  • Upside down his belly looks huge and vulnerable, a smooth expanse of snowy white dotted by black-skinned genitals.†   (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)
  • The only time I saw him vulnerable, ever, was that morning when he decided to burn the boat.†   (source)
  • Why couldn't I know my dad as this almost vulnerable man?†   (source)
  • Now that she lay captive beneath him, he wondered how he would ever escape her without leaving himself 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)
  • If they're descendents, the next point to figure is if having them here gives us more muscle, or makes us more vulnerable.†   (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)
  • Unfortunately, many of these creatures are very young or vulnerable and require your care.†   (source)
  • As the tumultuous year neared its end, Moody stood in the midst of two international camps, vulnerable to attack from both sides.†   (source)
  • It's a matter of knowing the spirit in question, knowing its vulnerability.†   (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)
  • And prove to the jury that conniving her way into wills handwritten by her old and vulnerable bosses was a devious pattern.†   (source)
  • He served the food with such a mournful expression that I thought these people are very vulnerable.†   (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)
  • They're pink and vulnerable as though they haven't been used much.†   (source)
  • It brought him face to face with his own vulnerability his own powerlessness.†   (source)
  • Often ill during childhood and still subject to recurring headaches and insomnia, she appeared more delicate and vulnerable than her sisters.†   (source)
  • He will be eighteen in January, but he looks younger than that, and vulnerable; yet older at the same time.†   (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)
  • She'd taken him back to a point of vulnerability he'd escaped from.†   (source)
  • And, at least to Carlos, as vulnerable.†   (source)
  • And it was not only the bombers in the air that were 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It's about being vulnerable.†   (source)
  • When man encased himself in a metal tube thirty thousand feet above the ground, he was vulnerable.†   (source)
  • To Stone he seemed painfully 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)
  • 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)
  • Told me I was 'his only friend'—and was so open and vulnerable I wanted to bawl.†   (source)
  • It's the most vulnerable position after the leader!†   (source)
  • But this moment of utter perfection was as vulnerable to disruption as the mirror-smooth surface of a lake at dawn.†   (source)
  • In all my years of knowing her, even as a child in Mother's house, I had never heard her so vulnerable.†   (source)
  • He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.†   (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)
  • Girls—so susceptible to weakness from poor food and neglect—never outgrow their vulnerability.†   (source)
  • But that made him more vulnerable than ever, as he risked losing everything he loved by being deported.†   (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)
  • But I was doing it for the little people everywhere (I don't mean dwarfs-1 just mean, you know, vulnerable people).†   (source)
  • He felt as vulnerable in the sunlight as a human would in the dark of night.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He'd had no idea, however, how vulnerable it would make him feel.†   (source)
  • For some reason I want him to feel vulnerable, laid open, though I know it will be completely useless.†   (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)
  • Her beauty and vulnerability cloud your perspective:' "So you think she killed him?"†   (source)
  • I felt vulnerable, exposed, as if someone was out there hidden in the darkness, hidden and waiting.†   (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)
  • Divided America More Vulnerable†   (source)
  • "The SAPL is vulnerable," Tyler said.†   (source)
  • I'd never felt more vulnerable than I did the moment Derek Novak's electric-blue eyes settled on me.†   (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)
  • France's Muslim population exploded in size, far eclipsing the small, vulnerable Jewish community, and the oldest hatred returned with a vengeance.†   (source)
  • The form of the poem, in other words, is crucial to poetry's power to do the thing which always is and always will be to poetry's credit: the power to persuade that vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of the evidence of wrongness all around it, the power to remind us that we are hunters and gatherers of values, that our very solitudes and distresses are creditable, in so far as they, too, are an earnest of our veritable human being.†   (source)
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