How to Use defund in a Sentence

defund

verb

• Lawmakers agreed to defund the IWC as part of the deal.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• A year after mass protests calling to defund the police, we’re set to elect a cop to lead the city.
  — Willy Blackmore, Curbed, 28 Oct. 2021
• Biden even countered calls to defund the police in an ode to them.
  — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 15 May 2023
• That’s because people don’t vote for Democrats to defund things.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 28 Mar. 2022
• Rubio has tried to tie Demings to the far-left’s defund the police movement.
  — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2022
• In Idaho, some conservatives now want the state to defund it.
  — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• Today, of course, the political wing once most likely to deify the FBI wants to defund it.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
• But the drumbeat to defund the police has been drowned out by the reality of rising crime rates in cities around the country.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2022
• The man's death also prompted Indy10 Black Lives Matter to renewed their calls to defund the police.
  — Lawrence Andrea, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2022
• Adams also claims to want to save cities from the chaos caused by Democratic Socialists of America and their fight to defund the police and tax the rich.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• Could Republican calls to defund the agency boost Democrats in midterm races?
  — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2022
• The campaign also did not say whether Abrams disavowed the group for giving thousands to defund the police activists.
  — Jessica Chasmar, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2022
• Republicans called it an attack on free speech and threatened to defund it.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2022
• Sweet had been charged with putting together a series of panels for the conference, and one was on movements to defund the police.
  — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
• Some issued calls to defund the FBI—an organization that, in their view, needed to be purged.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2022
• The push to defund the police might have peaked after George Floyd’s murder in 2020, but a related movement is still going strong.
  — Jillian Kay Melchior, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2022
• The growing pot of unpaid overtime troubles some of the activists who have demanded that city leaders defund the LAPD.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2021
• Floyd's murder sparked racial justice protests and calls to defund the police nationwide.
  — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 12 Feb. 2022
• States with measures to defund schools that teach the 1619 Project are more explicit in their repudiation.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2021
• The industry launched a referendum attempt to repeal the law and defund the council.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
• Nearly all of them criticized the push to defund police departments.
  — Ethan Barton, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2022
• The president would also be wise to distance himself from those in his party trying to defund the police.
  — Robert B. Zoellick, WSJ, 22 May 2022
• As for whether Michels wants to defund public education?
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2022
• Challenges that law enforcement faced in 2020 were a popular subject of the night, as Ducey spoke on riots and calls to defund the police that reached a boiling point last year.
  — Athena Ankrah, The Arizona Republic, 30 Sep. 2021
• But as the calls to defund rang out, violent crimes in the Black community skyrocketed.
  — Fox News, 12 May 2022
• But Aftab Pureval is working against law enforcement, siding with activists who want to defund the police.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 29 Oct. 2021
• The new spot alleges Dixon's budget proposals would defund state police.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 27 July 2022
• The move came amid intense pressure from organizers who called for Garcetti to defund the department.
  — NBC News, 28 Dec. 2021
• Alai doubled down on his reasoning that Price voted to defund the safety forces by voting against placing the tax increase on the ballot.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 15 Mar. 2022
• If your city council wants to defund their police, don’t expect the federal government to make up the difference.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 11 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024