How to Use demarcate in a Sentence

demarcate

verb
  • The sides demarcated the armistice line on a map in grease pencil.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The agents placed their bounty in front of the garage in a spot demarcated by yellow cones.
    — Benoît Morenne, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
  • By demarcating changes in units of one, counters give form to the passage of time.
    — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 28 May 2009
  • Carpet tiles demarcate six-foot black circles around every desk in the open floor plan.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 June 2020
  • White areas were neatly demarcated from the black ones that didn’t.
    — Colin Kinniburgh, New Republic, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Outside the buildings, a concrete strip on the ground demarcates the border.
    — Edward Wong, New York Times, 18 July 2023
  • The only thing that demarcates the level of celebrity is the price said celebrity sets for his or her messages.
    — John Cullen, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The Patriot’s dining room is demarcated by a large bar and flanked by a pair of open kitchens.
    — Kate Washington, sacbee, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The line there was visible, demarcated by a wide dirt path and small yellow markings.
    — Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
  • The spaces between each panel clearly demarcate one moment in time from the next.
    — Art Spiegelman, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2025
  • And yet this life style seemed demarcated by objects that were ugly, strange, and uncanny.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
  • An empathetic employee went inside and came back out with a roll of tape to demarcate six-foot squares.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 13 Nov. 2020
  • During practice, the track had created pods of seats and then put down stickers to demarcate where one pod should start and the other end.
    — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 27 May 2021
  • When you're squeezed for space, use furniture to demarcate the entrance while keeping it visually light.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Borders demarcate lines of sovereignty between states—and the Palestinians do not have a state.
    — Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Each artist is given her own spread and the insignias used in the show demarcate the individual entries.
    — Danielle Avram, Dallas News, 7 July 2021
  • Someone built the fences that demarcate the stern limits on the animals’ separate worlds.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2021
  • With her recent looks, Brown demarcates the precocious child actor from the adult woman.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Freeways were marketed as a way to demarcate communities — that’s what came up in the research for the show.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The kitchen, dining room and living room are open, with a partial wall of shelves demarcating the living space from the eating areas.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 22 June 2018
  • Her footsteps, the movements of her hands and arms, the long, rounded contours of her face and shoulders—all demarcate clear, strong perimeters.
    — Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Over 2,000 people were killed, and this bolt out of the blue suddenly demarcated peace from war.
    — Jake Nevins, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Voyager 1 is nestled in the space demarcated by that stellar pyramid.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The cemetery was a communal space, yet each fence demarcated a private domain—my nature, my virtues, my gait, my mood.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Where the research ends and the fiction begins is impossible to demarcate.
    — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 30 June 2026
  • Home, a drive-in movie theater, a dingy park and a hospital room are demarcated with the rearrangement of old tires, cinder blocks and spare wood.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Members of finance twitter have also joined in the fun, coming up with acronyms of their own to demarcate the outperformers.
    — Luke Kawa, The Seattle Times, 24 June 2017
  • Or, to put things a bit more sharply, the case will help demarcate the line between really bad journalism and libelous journalism.
    — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Two special zones — like the two waterfalls that now fill the footprint of the twin towers at ground zero — are demarcated, one of them raised, with a ramp.
    — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Israel has pulled back to the yellow line that demarcates the first withdrawal position inside Gaza.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025

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