How to Use rearmament in a Sentence

rearmament

noun
  • The continent’s rearmament, a process that began in earnest last year, will take at least three to five years to be credible.
    — Mujtaba Rahman, Time, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Ukraine’s rearmament should be tied to a clear military strategy.
    — Eric Ciaramella, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2024
  • But the changing geostrategic position of Hezbollah has forced it to adapt, even in its rearmament.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 24 June 2026
  • The facts of the rearmament were not widely known until Die Weltbühne’s story ran.
    — Longreads, 5 Dec. 2024
  • And Friedrich Merz got a friendly bit of ribbing on German rearmament.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 5 June 2025
  • Focus on our rearmaments, on the support for Ukraine, and the threat that Russia poses to all of our democracies.
    — Azhar Sukri, CNBC, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Overnight, the United States swung from disarmament to rearmament.
    — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Worse, the Czechoslovaks had one of the world’s best armament works, which immensely aided Berlin’s rearmament.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • China’s rapid rearmament and the ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are signs that the clouds are darkening.
    — Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Sit at the table of dialogue and mediation, not at the table where rearmament is planned and deadly actions are decided!
    — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Sit at the tables of dialogue and mediation, not at the tables where rearmament is planned and death is deliberated!
    — Mark Osborne, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Sit at the tables of dialogue and mediation, not at the tables where rearmament is planned and death is deliberated!
    — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The country is also contending with the complex issue of military rearmament.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 5 July 2024
  • The fast track towards rearmament runs through the US but requires mutual trust and consistency.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 3 May 2026
  • After decades of quasi-pacifism, Japan is initiating a massive rearmament program.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Merz, whose reputation is of a free-market deficit hawk, has now proposed a sweeping program of rearmament and economic investment.
    — Raul Elizalde, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Röttgen offers little to placate Germany’s surging far-right populists or its moderates concerned about the costs of massive rearmament.
    — Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • But the Ukraine war made support for Germany’s troops more acceptable, and the new government is pushing a massive rearmament effort.
    — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 15 June 2025
  • Most analysts contend German rearmament is crucial, not only to peace across Europe, but also throughout the globe.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2022
  • America’s rearmament is rooted in a deal that Barack Obama struck with Congress in 2010.
    — Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The first is to tailor rapid rearmament to the idea of sending a large military force to Ukraine to guarantee a peace settlement and if necessary fight Russia there.
    — Anatol Lieven, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
  • In 1951, nearly six million people in West Germany signed a petition against rearmament.
    — Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Zelensky also spoke out about demands Putin raised in the call with Trump, that any ceasefire would require Ukraine to halt recruiting new soldiers and stop rearmament.
    — Laura Kelly, The Hill, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Whereas once Japanese rearmament with such capabilities would have caused debate among its allies, Washington is rightly all-in for the plan.
    — The Editors, National Review, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Another issue, Putin said, is whether Ukraine could use the 30-day ceasefire to continue mobilization and rearmament.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
  • European defense startups are attracting swathes of private capital, as investors look for exposure to an industry on the cusp of receiving a leg-up from massive rearmament plans.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In many cases, Ukraine and its partners will want sanctions to remain in place after the conflict, in order to slow down Russian rearmament and punish Russia for its long list of crimes.
    — Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The prospect of German reindustrialization and rearmament, however, reignited age-old French fears.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022
  • That's seen as a major step toward rearmament, reversing the demilitarization imposed by the allies at the end of World War II.
    — Scott Neuman, NPR, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The shock of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine led Europeans to launch a broad rearmament effort to defend the continent against military invasion.
    — Sophia Besch, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2025

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