defenceless BrE
defenseless AmE

Defenceless women like that always seemed to take up with the same kind of man.

The point I was trying to make is that when we leave, you're going to be left defenceless here.

But now she was just standing there, looking defenceless and ready for my next move.

He stood there defenceless and they must have seen their opportunity.

But the day will never dawn again when I cut down defenceless men.

I'm sure that's how she saw us as children, defenceless.

Not a very nice question to ask a poor defenceless male on a hot morning.

I want everyone to remember this: we are not defenceless, gentlemen.

Call to mind that I am a very helpless and defenceless little thing.

We must not remain defenceless in the face of these criminal activities.

The war had only been won by leaving Britain defenceless on land.

But prey on the defenceless, and you've lost your moral ground.

Among many others even more defenceless, like the poor of Winchester.

Killing the world's very poorest and most defenceless of people.

Why should women, children and defenceless civilians always be the victims of military action?

Nothing can harm me now - whereas you are defenceless.

It can be seen from this example that we are certainly not defenceless in the face of floods.

Her hand hovered above his neck that looked so defenceless.

Now Mazarin was alone and defenceless, as he well knew.

I had expected him to have his walls up against me, hut he was defenceless.

In a war, it is always the defenceless and the innocent who have to pay the highest price.

No but you're taking their power away and you're making them defenceless.

She felt curiously defenceless, almost on the edge of tears.

Now that he was virtually defenceless Steve had no wish to give away his position.

There had been huge raids on the now defenceless Britain.

"A young woman alone and defenseless in the middle of the night!"

A bad one could have left him defenseless for weeks.

I had found myself defenseless in the face of death.

They knew just how defenseless someone was in that position.

More than once, during the War, he'd seen what could happen to a defenseless woman.

There is no choice but to act in defense of defenseless people.

The system that had been so strong suddenly seemed defenseless.

The last thing you see him do is kill a defenseless man.

And we know how defenseless that city is at the present time.

It was such a large ship to look so defenseless.

"You'd be defenseless if he found you during the day."

And for how long will we be defenseless under their guns?

Not that this left him defenseless - far from it.

But the bottom line is you killed a defenseless man.

But her face went defenseless and ordinary as if she had come back to them finally.

But the one I really feel sorry for is her poor defenseless daughter.

North had not doubled and so was likely to be defenseless.

The Muslims have held out when they were alone and almost defenseless.

Brown and his men are virtually defenseless at this point.

But why would any guy want to rape a defenseless woman?

He felt the terrible fear of being small and defenseless.

Slowly the gun came down and she was defenseless before him.

And it's wrong to see this defenseless little country of two million people as a threat.

For the least break which fear might make in my guard would leave me defenseless.

To be found here would mean I certain death, and he was utterly defenseless.