How to Use disarm in a Sentence

disarm

verb
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  • The government has been unsuccessful at disarming the rebels.
  • Evans uses hot sauce as a way to disarm his guests, asking them more personal questions as the spice level heats up.
    — Lily O'Neill, The Denver Post, 27 June 2024
  • The dynamic would soon change as the man suddenly grappled with the gunman and managed to disarm him.
    — Emmett Jones, Fox News, 28 Nov. 2021
  • Others helped disarm Baganda before any shots were fired and kept him pinned to the ground until officers arrived to the scene, police said.
    — NBC News, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Tare Myre, a junior and captain of the football team, has been described as a hero by his peers for rushing toward the shooter in an attempt to disarm him.
    — Yael Halon, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Duran shot him multiple times within seconds and without giving any command to Fortson to disarm himself, body camera video shows.
    — Janelle Griffith, NBC News, 3 July 2024
  • Binger also has argued that Huber and Grosskreutz were trying to disarm Rittenhouse to protect others.
    — Todd Richmond, ajc, 6 Nov. 2021
  • The medications disarm his immune system, leaving him vulnerable to other threats.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2024
  • One of those was Anthony Huber, 26, who attempted to hit Rittenhouse with a skateboard and disarm him.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Whiskey, with its broad shoulders and oaky fullness, can be almost completely disarmed by tarting it up with fresh lemon juice and balancing with simple syrup, as bartenders have been doing since roughly forever.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 July 2024
  • More important, however, Billy also demonstrates uncommon self-restraint, preferring to wound and disarm Sid rather than shoot the guy dead.
    — Joe Leydon, Variety, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The 68-year-old man tried to disarm Liu and was also stabbed.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2022
  • With that, Fin lunges at the boy to try and disarm him, but the gun goes off amid the struggle.
    — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024
  • Police said two men helped to disarm Aldrich the night of the shooting.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Use the key to reverse the lock the shackle to disarm the alarm for travel.
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The two deputies managed to disarm and subdue the suspect.
    — Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The Democrats had a chance to disarm this ticking time bomb during the lame-duck session but chose not to.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Roland disarmed one of robbers and shot him in the leg before the other two attacked him.
    — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2023
  • Democrats have a chance to disarm this gun before McCarthy and his colleagues place it to the side of the nation’s head in a few months.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Cheng, 52, charged the suspect and tried to disarm him allowing others to jump in, Barnes said.
    — Byjulia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 May 2022
  • The neighbor was able to disarm Nguyen, who then jumped in a white Toyota Sienna minivan and fled the area.
    — Paul Best, Fox News, 2 May 2022
  • The third disarmed him but he was saved by Maysilee Donner – who used a poison dart to shoot the Career in the back – before his throat was slit.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2024
  • The Iraqi central government, based in Baghdad to the south, wants the Iranian groups to disarm.
    — Sangar Khaleel Emily Garthwaite, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Yet there was a disarming earnestness to his on-screen persona.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Under the 2022 deal, Tigrayan forces pledged to disarm and not provide any support to any other armed group in Ethiopia.
    — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
  • For years after the 2012 school massacre, Jones claimed it was staged to disarm legal gun owners.
    — Hartford Courant, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Maina added that Ruto should push the UN to send in thousands of soldiers to disarm the gangs before the police are deployed to keep the peace.
    — Larry Madowo, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Toward the back of the store, a 66-year-old Safeway worker attempted to disarm the gunman and was killed.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Police said another man at the scene got into a fight with the man who shot the girl, attempting to disarm him.
    — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Chris Hixon was an athletic director at the school who ran in to try to disarm the gunman and was shot by him.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2022

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