Crossword-Solution: DEFENSES 8 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Insanity and others 1 answer
What QB's must "read" 1 answer
Some football teams 1 answer
Protective measures 1 answer
Problems for Secy. Wilson. 1 answer
Parts of all football teams 1 answer
N. A. T. O. is building these. 1 answer
Legal strategies 1 answer
Doomsday and Steel Curtain 1 answer
Concerns of coaches 1 answer
"My ___ Are Down," 1946 Berlin song 1 answer
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Justifications 4 answers
Fortifications 7 answers
Mound 56 answers
Protection 73 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEFENSES (5)

But if you went further than that, if you drew yourself up toward ninety degrees, you parted with your defenses and left yourself exposed to mischance.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
When General Butler learned that the South was using slaves to erect military defenses, he declared that such slaves were contraband of war and therefore did not have to be returned.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
The great ceremony must be omitted that no single man may be kept from his place in the defenses other than the fifty that custom demands shall witness the creation of a new queen in Okar.
The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The current viral defenses include signature identification, cyclic redundancy checks and intercept verifica- tion, but the new viruses can combat those as a matter of rule.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
But what of their ancient coast defenses? What was there here in Plymouth Bay to prevent an enemy landing in force and marching where they wished? Nothing.
The Lost Continent Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994

Quotes with DEFENSES (3)

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss …
Neil Gaiman The Kindly Ones
How could I remain unyielding? His words penetrated the flimsy barriers I’d set up around my heart. I’d meant to set up a barbed wire fence, but the barbs ended up being covered with marshmallows. He slipped through my defenses easily. He touched his forehead to my hand, and my marshmallow heart melted.
Colleen Houck
Regin the Radiant and Emmaline Troy: 'Alrighty then, have it your way- you're on your own... Now, if you come across a leech, no offense, remember your training.''None taken. And would that be the sword training where you fly past my defenses and swat me on the ass, chirping, 'Dead!'? Another swat. 'Dead!'? Yeah, I'll get right on that.''No, that would be the training where you sprint like hell whenever you hear that I'm looking for you to train.
Kresley Cole A Hunger Like No Other
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 15 times in crossword archives (1951–2023).