How to Use rearm in a Sentence

rearm

verb
Definition of rearmnext
  • The treaty forbids the country to rearm.
  • Another country was rearming their enemies.
  • The one promise Scholz has yet to make good on is his pledge to rearm Germany.
    — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • But within a few years, residents of the Jenin camp began to rearm.
    — Adam Rasgon, WSJ, 17 May 2022
  • Responding to complaints, Disney rearmed the cruise ship captains and gave them the green light to fire at will.
    — Hugo Martin, latimes.com, 29 June 2017
  • But the militants later regrouped and rearmed in each case.
    — Dan De Luce, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Ties tightened further in the 1950s when the U.S. began rearming for the Korean War.
    — Danielle Bochove, Bloomberg.com, 30 Apr. 2017
  • Putin has, in effect, helped to rearm Ukraine with the military equipment his ground forces will leave behind.
    — Michael Krepon, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Any cease-fire will just give Russia a chance to rearm before attacking again.
    — Boris Bondarev, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2022
  • But the jihadist groups, who are sweeping across much of the Sahel, have reformed, rearmed and recruited new fighters.
    — W.b., The Economist, 3 July 2019
  • The Chinese Navy would use those bases to refuel and rearm, extending Beijing’s reach.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2021
  • This fits with reporting from the region that thousands of renegade FARC members have rearmed and returned to the battlefield.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2018
  • Above all, to prepare to wage future wars, rather than continuing the habit of rearming for previous ones.
    — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 16 July 2009
  • Instead, Stalin rearmed during the non-aggression pact with Hitler.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Which is rearming at the double, more than any other European country.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
  • There has been, perhaps, no greater demonstration of strategic lassitude since the West watched passively as Germany rearmed in the 1930s.
    — Jerry Hendrix, National Review, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Leaders in the public and private sectors should heed Colby’s warning and work around the clock to rearm and resupply U.S. and allied militaries.
    — Michael Lucchese, Washington Examiner, 1 June 2023
  • What’s often left out of this story is why the Japanese were refueling and rearming at that moment.
    — James Downie, Twin Cities, 8 June 2017
  • Many nations around the world that have enjoyed safety under the umbrella of U.S. protection would also have to rearm themselves.
    — John Gustavsson, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
  • On the morning of June 4, American dive bombers encountered the Japanese fleet as its planes were being refueled and rearmed.
    — James Downie, Twin Cities, 8 June 2017
  • But Moscow will not be static, either: A break could allow Russian forces also to rearm and harden their defensive lines.
    — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
  • After the seizure of Lysychansk, some analysts predicted that Moscow’s troops likely would take some time to rearm and regroup.
    — Francesca Ebel, ajc, 10 July 2022
  • Analysts predicted Moscow’s troops likely would take some time to rearm and regroup.
    — Maria Grazia Murru, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2022
  • Analysts predicted Moscow's troops likely would take some time to rearm and regroup.
    — Arkansas Online, 10 July 2022
  • Meanwhile, players need pay attention to their ammo and rearm by picking up guns that security guards or cops drop.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2017
  • Hitler began to secretly rearm Germany, a violation of the Versailles Treaty.
    — Caitlin McLean, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
  • These forces keep everyone in check during the country’s transition to peace and provide basic security in a way that won’t spur either side to rearm.
    — Max Fisher, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2016
  • In sum, Germany would rearm after decades of intentionally putting its military on the back burner.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2022
  • On land, Britain had only partly rearmed following its post-World War I disarmament....
    — Bartle Bull, WSJ, 9 May 2019
  • Fleeing jihadists are already regrouping in remote areas, rearming with the help of desert smugglers.
    — Anne Barnard and Hwaida Saad, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017

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