Easily hurt

Usage examples of vulnerable.

But the kid had looked vulnerable too, and Alan had left the kid behind.

Why had it taken her so long to realize that her amnesia left her vulnerable, at the mercy of anyone who chose to manipulate her?

More had scattered to the winds when ordered units of dragoons had ridden in and poured two deadly pistol volleys against the straggling, vulnerable flanks, then regrouped and reloaded out of arquebus range.

You went down that hole, Auger, even knowing that you had two vulnerable children in your care.

When Aumery dried him off, Michel rubbed the stubble on his head, feeling vulnerable with the air moving against his scalp and his bare, clean skin.

Although it is considered axiomatic that ground forces are far more vulnerable to air attack when they are massed and out in the open and moving for an attack, the results of air strikes against attacking armored forces in recent wars have not always met these expectations.

And even if Cohen got by them, Kolodny would still be physically jacked in to the lab mainframe, vulnerable to whatever wet bugs and bioactive code the system threw at her.

The sensation of being blindfolded and treated like this had her heart hammering but as well as that she found now that she was acutely aware of how vulnerable she was sexually.

Grace of Norfolk, I have no bonaghts, this is the principal reason why my borders are ever so vulnerable to the inroads of that unhung bandit and oath-breaker who chooses to style himself King of Ulaid these days.

Brummel had never in his life seen sweet, seemingly vulnerable Mary Busche so feisty.

But his head turned again to Bran, as if by compulsion, back to the pale vulnerable figure standing there holding the sword Eirias, his white hair sleek in the mist and the tawny eyes creased a little against the light.

In this way we make ourselves as vulnerable and receptive as possible to a renewed and deepened experience of the way our bodily being bodies forth the love that utters our feelings into being.

Apparently your experts at Homeland Security think the Sec Def and the Chairman are too vulnerable.

My guess is that at the very beginning of his teaching career he realized that he would have to compensate in some very definite, dramatic way for the physical inadequacies of his person -- his extreme nearsightedness, his dwarfism making him laughable, vulnerable.

I felt very alone, very vulnerable, and, I hated to admit, oh-so girly as I cried my guts out down the 405.