How to Use demarcation in a Sentence

demarcation

noun
  • There's a demarcation between those two and the rest of the center group.
    — Max Bultman, New York Times, 19 June 2026
  • This marks an important line of demarcation in the Bengals’ draft plan.
    — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The four-million-viewer level has been seen as something of a demarcation point in recent months.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 26 May 2026
  • Instead, 2026 is all about soft, lived-in shades of blonde, without a clear line of demarcation at the root.
    — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Pitras said shifting between clock and event time is easier for him without the sun’s clear demarcation between day and night.
    — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2025
  • With new demarcations of land, Pinjar reflects how such violence scaled up.
    — JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Savala’s victims have come to view his 2012 conviction as a line of demarcation.
    — Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Then, apply the orange to a makeup sponge and pat it on the line of demarcation to buff out the line and create the gradient effect.
    — Rebecca Norris, InStyle, 8 June 2026
  • Looking back at the last three years there is a clear and concise line of demarcation - the $145/$146 area.
    — Jay Woods, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Seoul's military said the soldiers returned north of the military demarcation line and did not return fire.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Seoul's military said the soldiers returned north of the military demarcation line and did not return fire.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The polluted site will be made safe with an 18-inch surface cover of clean soil over a demarcation barrier.
    — Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Concentrated sectors tend to have Mafia-style demarcations of turf.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The yellow line was intended as the first of three demarcation lines, to which Israeli forces would withdraw as the ceasefire progressed through its three stages.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2025
  • What evidences the demarcation line?
    — Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2026
  • As your natural hair continues to grow in, that line of demarcation becomes more pronounced—and often more challenging to manage.
    — Janell M. Hickman-Kirby, Allure, 18 May 2026
  • Many visitors prefer to simply walk or bike up and down the beachside road, often saving time in the process despite there being little to no demarcation for sidewalks.
    — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
  • For Palestinians living near Israel’s demarcation line in Gaza, the war never stopped.
    — Lior Soroka, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Black people in America have always had to contend with these lines of demarcation, reinforced and maintained by white men, and those deputized by them—with guns.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • But Thursday represented a line of demarcation.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Giragosian said a priority of the next government will be border demarcation with Azerbaijan, as well as cracking down on corruption.
    — Avet Demourian, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
  • Thousands of indigenous groups are currently waiting for the demarcation of their territories, a process that’s been traditionally slow in Brazil.
    — Adriana Brasileiro, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • In times past, there was a fairly strict demarcation, but these days international cricketers are more likely to know each other from the T20 franchise circuit, so there is much more mixing and matching.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 6 June 2026
  • But there are some clear lines of demarcation on what democratic socialism is, and generally speaking, it is defined as a belief that the economy should be democratically run for the benefit of the public.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Andujar’s work has contributed to the demarcation of Indigenous lands and vaccination campaigns in the Amazon region.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 15 May 2026
  • LaBarge frequently interrupts the telling to braid her narrative so tautly with those of others that their language blurs together, quotation marks vanishing, lines of demarcation eroding.
    — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • Viewership for the program has once again dropped below 4 million, a critical demarcation point that previously spurred alarm at the Paramount Skydance news division.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 17 Mar. 2026
  • His administration is also working to suspend the use of a protection mechanism that temporarily gives native land status to territories that haven’t fully completed the demarcation process.
    — Adriana Brasileiro, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Both countries have agreed to set up a working group to consult and coordinate on border affairs to advance demarcation negotiations, a Chinese foreign ministry statement released on Wednesday showed.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Israel’s latest military offensive marks its first incursion past the southern Litani River region, which historically acted as a demarcation line, in 20 years.
    — Drew Pittock, USA Today, 31 May 2026

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