How to Use defund in a Sentence

defund

verb

• No, Biden has explicitly rejected the call by some on the left to defund the police.
  — Calvin Woodward, Star Tribune, 30 Aug. 2020
• The result is that Joe sorta wants to defund the police, but sorta not entirely.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 1 Sep. 2020
• The Democrats want to defund, destroy, and disrespect our law enforcement.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2020
• Biden has no plans to defund the police, and has frequently condemned many of the protests involving property damage.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 16 Sep. 2020
• In the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of police, calls to defund and dismantle law enforcement swept the country.
  — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2020
• Other Biden ads seek to push back on Trump's false claims that Biden wants to defund the police and that his election would lead to violence in the streets.
  — Brian Slodysko, Star Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
• Furthermore, any municipality that tried to defund the police will not receive state funding.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2020
• Calls to defund and disband police departments have also become prevalent from liberal politicians and pundits.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 1 Sep. 2020
• Why do city governments defund police departments at the very moment vulnerable residents are most fearful for their safety?
  — Victor Davis Hanson Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• Her crime: Juarez failed to back a goal to defund the police by 50%.
  — Timothy Egan New York Times, Star Tribune, 28 June 2021
• Lawmakers agreed to defund the IWC as part of the deal.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• The bills were written in response to efforts to defund the police in cities across the U.S.
  — Dallas News, 21 June 2021
• There’s still a very strong movement to defund the police, even in the middle of a five-alarm fire.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• Calls to defund the police rang out in protests across the country and through the halls of city government.
  — Jennifer Swann, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2020
• 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
• City and counties that try to defund the police would lose their state funding.
  — Gray Rohrer, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• That’s because people don’t vote for Democrats to defund things.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 28 Mar. 2022
• Thirteen percent of whites and 28% of blacks wanted to defund them.
  — Karlyn Bowman, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• Zemault’s death prompted protests and calls to defund the police.
  — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Feb. 2021
• Collins charged that Allred voted to defund the police by $600 million.
  — Dallas News, 19 Oct. 2020
• 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
• The shooting comes amid calls to defund the police department following the death of Floyd.
  — David Aaro, Fox News, 31 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Collins has also accused Allred of voting to defund the police.
  — Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Perhaps no one was more surprised to learn that Joyce Jones wanted to defund the police than Joyce Jones herself.
  — Elaina Plott, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2020
• While the Biden-Harris campaign largely eschewed calls to defund the police, this was not a moment where progressives were looking for a prosecutor.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 July 2024
• But these disagreements should never be used to demand resignations of CCRB leadership nor to defund its work.
  — Frederick Davie, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024