How to Use demilitarize in a Sentence

demilitarize

verb
  • Putin has since said that the war is a mission to demilitarize Ukraine.
    — Dallas News, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Gaza will be demilitarized, and Hamas will be disarmed, the easy way or the hard way.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Gaza will be demilitarized, and Hamas will be disarmed, the easy way or the hard way.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The Striker has been demilitarized and stripped of all weapons.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2018
  • Hamas has got to be demilitarized, and can no longer be involved in any future government.
    — Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • World leaders have called on the Russians to demilitarize the plant.
    — Paul Byrne, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Then there is the intent to demilitarize Ukraine.
    — Olivier Kempf, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • First, the war on drugs should be de-escalated and demilitarized.
    — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 16 May 2017
  • Efforts to demilitarize police are taking place in cities across the country.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Scott doesn’t want to outright ban chokeholds or demilitarize police.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Starmer and others have said that a Palestinian state must be demilitarized.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Israel wants to keep southwest Syria demilitarized to prevent any threat on its border.
    — Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2025
  • There are a number of ways this process can run aground, first and foremost Hamas’ continued refusal to disarm and demilitarize.
    — Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Under the peace treaty, Israel agreed to withdraw from the Sinai, which Egypt would leave demilitarized.
    — TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
  • As noted above, Ukraine will not demilitarize, as the Kremlin has demanded.
    — Dennis Ross and Norm Eisen, CNN, 3 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Concerns surrounding the program have resurged amid nationwide calls to defund and demilitarize the police.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 10 July 2020
  • The Javelin recovered in this case was not demilitarized, prosecutors said.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The stated intention of the Kremlin was to demilitarize Ukraine.
    — Phil McCausland, NBC news, 9 May 2022
  • 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
  • The original plan would see the eastern region demilitarized, and Ukraine would be able to build new defensive lines, so the military loss would not be severe.
    — Anatol Lieven, Time, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Somebody has to then-- demilitarize Gaza.
    — CBS News, 10 May 2026
  • In Zavala's opinion, the only way out of this spiral of violence in Mexico is to demilitarize the country.
    — Anna Lagos, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The Rhineland was occupied and demilitarized, and German colonies were taken over by the new League of Nations.
    — National Geographic, 31 May 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Among its stickier points is the establishment of a coalition of international troops to ensure Gaza is demilitarized.
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 18 Nov. 2025
  • 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

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