(a.) Capable of being wounded; susceptible of wounds or external injuries; as, a vulnerable body.
(a.) Liable to injury; subject to be affected injuriously; assailable; as, a vulnerable reputation.
Example Sentences:
(1) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
(2) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
(3) The facts are that the vulnerable children of this country remain largely unprotected.
(4) Since neutrophils are the first line of defense against infection the vulnerability to infection of the elderly may be due, at least in part, to age-related changes in neutrophils (PMNs).
(5) From these results, it can be suspected that the motor fibres are more vulnerable during aging.
(6) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
(7) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
(8) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
(9) For me, it would be to protect the young and vulnerable, to reduce crime, to improve health, to promote security and development, to provide good value for money and to protect.
(10) The results support Kuiper and colleagues' distinction between concomitant and vulnerability schemas, and help to clarify differences between cognitions that are symptoms or correlates of depression and those that may play a causal role under certain conditions.
(11) "It is difficult to imagine the torment experienced by the vulnerable victims of crimes such as these.
(12) Dietary fat can modify the vulnerability of the myocardium to arrhythmic stimuli.
(13) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
(14) The identifiable causes of child drowning are absence of a safety barrier or fence around the water hazard, non-supervision of a child, a parental "vulnerable period", an inadequate safety barrier, and tempting objects in or on the water.
(15) Although the greater vulnerability of the verbal intelligence of the younger radiated child and the serial order memory of the child with later tumor onset and hormone disturbances remain to be explained, and although the form of the relationship between radiation and tumor site is not fully understood, the data highlight the need to consider the cognitive consequences of pediatric brain tumors according to a set of markers that include maturational rate, hormone status, radiation history, and principal site of the tumor.
(16) It's typically sober and elegant, and Cotillard excels in a nervy, vulnerable role.
(17) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
(18) Speaking through an interpreter, he said: “Most of the children in the camps do have their families and parents with them but those stranded around Europe and in Calais are very vulnerable because other people could do something to them.
(19) The authors hypothesize that an interplay of late adoption intrinsic vulnerabilities in the children, and weakness of parental bonds accounts for the differential outcomes.
(20) Therefore, cells containing HSP72 immunoreactivity may serve as an early marker for neuronal injury from hypoxia-ischemia in the neonatal rat brain and more importantly may illustrate previously unrecognized areas of central nervous system vulnerability.
Weedy
Definition:
(superl.) Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.
(superl.) Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.
(superl.) Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons.
(a.) Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments.
Example Sentences:
(1) I set off down the still familiar regular path between the regularly spaced trees, finding weedy elder bushes bearing leaves.
(2) This locus is, however, highly polymorphic in weedy C. berlandieri populations of western North America.
(3) It's so easy, what with advergames , weedy regulation, ferocious lobbyists, monopolies, "regulatory capture", and with sugar and chips being so delicious, comforting, cheap, and all for sale seconds from a school gate near you.
(4) It's full of energy but perhaps could have done without the addition of a weedy brass section.
(5) Ed Miliband claimed that he and David were simply too weedy to fight.
(6) The government claims that tolls will only be charged by roads' new owners for new capacity, but that sounds distinctly like one of those weedy assurances given by politicians that, once yesterday's lunacy has become today's accepted practice, is swiftly forgotten (to these ears, it has a similar ring to all those early New Labour claims about strict limits on private involvement in the NHS, or what the likes of Nick Clegg have said about profit-making schools).
(7) You wait for the punchline on Nizlopi's JCB Song before realising, to your horror, that the weedy singing and naive lyric is not a Hoxton parody of outsider art but is meant to signify sincerity.
(8) Estate agents suggest sellers should try to: • Keep up external appearances: "To be greeted by a weedy drive and a facade covered in peeling paint is a death knell.
(9) There are no nasty oil-marks on the beach, nor weedy sewage outfalls.
(10) As a child he was weedy and introspective, a condition he cured by taking up boxing and rowing at Westminster School.
(11) For every weedy Peter Parker or Tony Stark sans Iron Man armour, there are armies of demigods looking ripped in latex and leather, many of them played by people called Chris.
(12) Facing a swaggering Conservative leadership that increasingly reveals a nasty bullying streak, Labour is tending to give off the anxious vibes of the weedy kid in the playground, eyes down, hands in its pockets, too ready for flight instead of fight.
(13) Livers from 4,501 deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) collected from a weedy habitat in northeastern California during 48 consecutive monthly samplings were examined microscopically for Taenia taeniaeformis larva.
(14) I'm not sure you'd want me to fight a pack of Daily Mail journalists to defend your honour, because I'm weedy and no good at sport, but I do a good line in creative swearing at sexist scumbags.
(15) I see Labour MPs and shadow ministers hold their heads in their hands, asking why strong popular policies emerge watered down, weedy and weak.
(16) The relatively weedy intellectual decided to attend the local gym.
(17) Its followup dramatises a school reunion, which gives weedy Brian and childhood sweetheart Jessica one last chance to get together.
(18) They stay home with their colonic irrigationists, and their weedy macrobiotic diets and their personal trainers and their status anxiety.
(19) Isozymes of leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) in leaf tissue of the cultivated chenopods (Chenopodium quinoa and C. nuttalliae) and their sympatric weedy relatives (C. hircinum and C. berlandieri) can be electrophoretically resolved into a sum total of five anodally migrating bands.