How to Use demilitarize in a Sentence

demilitarize

verb
Definition of demilitarizenext
Synonyms for demilitarizenext
  • Putin has since said that the war is a mission to demilitarize Ukraine.
    — Dallas News, 27 Feb. 2022
  • The Striker has been demilitarized and stripped of all weapons.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2018
  • World leaders have called on the Russians to demilitarize the plant.
    — Paul Byrne, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The Rhineland was occupied and demilitarized, and German colonies were taken over by the new League of Nations.
    — National Geographic, 31 May 2019
  • On the home front, the state council would begin to demilitarize Russia, reducing the size of the armed forces and by extension the cost of their maintenance.
    — Garry Kasparov, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2023
  • In Brazil, however, activists have logged many years in the fight to abolish and demilitarize the police, and to direct government largesse in a more just way.
    — Laura Weiss, The New Republic, 25 June 2020
  • The two leaders met again at the inter-Korean demilitarized zone last month and moved to get diplomacy back on track.
    — Min Joo Kim, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2019
  • First, the war on drugs should be de-escalated and demilitarized.
    — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 16 May 2017
  • The stated intention of the Kremlin was to demilitarize Ukraine.
    — Phil McCausland, NBC news, 9 May 2022
  • Efforts to demilitarize police are taking place in cities across the country.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Singapore had emerged as the likely host of the summit after Trump yielded to the concerns of his aides and backed off his desire to hold the meeting at the inter-Korean demilitarized zone.
    — Matthew Lee, Fox News, 10 May 2018
  • Ivan Nechayev, a spokesman for the Russian foreign ministry, rejected a proposal to demilitarize the area around the plant, Reuters reported.
    — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2022
  • As noted above, Ukraine will not demilitarize, as the Kremlin has demanded.
    — Dennis Ross and Norm Eisen, CNN, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Netanyahu said Gaza would be demilitarized and that Israel would retain the ability to enter Gaza freely to hunt down militants.
    — Najib Jobain, TIME, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The two Koreas, which are set to hold a summit meeting of their own in late April in the Panmunjom truce village on the inter-Korean demilitarized zone, have held two such prior meetings.
    — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Located on the Western side of the Iron Curtain’s demilitarized border zone, the neighborhood was a rundown frontier precinct.
    — Jonathan Rock Rokem, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2019
  • European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell renewed a call to Russia to fully demilitarize the area around the plant.
    — Derek Gatopoulos, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2022
  • European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell urged Russia to demilitarize the area around the plant.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The group is demanding that lawmakers increase the age for people to purchase weapons, ban military-style weapons and demilitarize police forces.
    — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Little progress has been made since, despite an aborted meeting with Kim in Hanoi and a substance-less summit in the Korean Peninsula’s demilitarized zone.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Scott doesn’t want to outright ban chokeholds or demilitarize police.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Amid the invasion, Putin said that Russia only intends to demilitarize Ukraine and bring people who committed crimes to justice.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2022
  • But in a surprising about-face, shortly after assuming office, López Obrador started to backtrack on his vow to demilitarize the country.
    — Denise Dresser, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The ceasefire in Northern Ireland took years to negotiate and was predicated on the arrival of the European Union to demilitarize the border, easing the free movement of people across the island.
    — Tess Taylor, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • In addition, teams of U.S. officials have arrived at the Korean demilitarized zone and in Singapore to prepare for the meeting.
    — Washington Post, 31 May 2018
  • Concerns surrounding the program have resurged amid nationwide calls to defund and demilitarize the police.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 10 July 2020
  • Israelis across the political spectrum now believe that Hamas must be destroyed as a military power and that Gaza must be demilitarized.
    — Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2023
  • There is a new openness to experiment with new forms of community policing that don't involve cops (some rather daft), demilitarize the police, and scale back police funding.
    — Shikha Dalmia, TheWeek, 2 July 2020
  • The work’s palpable anguish seems brutally current amid cries to demilitarize the police.
    — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The American occupation of Japan, which set out to demilitarize the country and transform it into a democracy, began soon after.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2020

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