Usage examples (8)

• As the plant slumped defencelessly, Daphe severed six of the great transparent pods that were to be their coffins.
• We crept on defencelessly, slowly, among the stones, feeling like sardines in a doomed tin, as the bombs fell closer.
• Your reality as more desirable than mine the same dead end you regret and when you are here, why point defencelessly backward this under the trees the white pavilion...
• Further to these objects, there was a large collection of glass jars in which wombs and ovaries, drenched in spirits, plus the odd female breast were preserved, even an aborted...