How to Use demarcate in a Sentence

demarcate

verb

• The sides demarcated the armistice line on a map in grease pencil.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
• The agents placed their bounty in front of the garage in a spot demarcated by yellow cones.
  — Benoît Morenne, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
• By demarcating changes in units of one, counters give form to the passage of time.
  — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 28 May 2009
• Outside the buildings, a concrete strip on the ground demarcates the border.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 18 July 2023
• The Patriot’s dining room is demarcated by a large bar and flanked by a pair of open kitchens.
  — Kate Washington, sacbee, 8 Dec. 2017
• The only thing that demarcates the level of celebrity is the price said celebrity sets for his or her messages.
  — John Cullen, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2020
• The black hole is demarcated by an event horizon, a point of no return: matter that falls in cannot get back out.
  — George Musser, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
• The Colorado River demarcates the state lines of Arizona and Nevada.
  — Richard Ruelas, azcentral, 11 Feb. 2020
• Carpet tiles demarcate six-foot black circles around every desk in the open floor plan.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 June 2020
• But in Achin, the U.S. and its Afghan allies are winning on a battlefront demarcated in green and brown.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2017
• Over 2,000 people were killed, and this bolt out of the blue suddenly demarcated peace from war.
  — Jake Nevins, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
• The Live on Patrol video, recorded Nov. 11, shows the section of roadway where Leonard was lying doesn’t have a white line to demarcate the roadway from the shoulder.
  — Liz Sawyer, Star Tribune, 2 Dec. 2020
• Her footsteps, the movements of her hands and arms, the long, rounded contours of her face and shoulders—all demarcate clear, strong perimeters.
  — Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• White areas were neatly demarcated from the black ones that didn’t.
  — Colin Kinniburgh, New Republic, 9 Aug. 2017
• During practice, the track had created pods of seats and then put down stickers to demarcate where one pod should start and the other end.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 27 May 2021
• Milestone birthdays have a way of demarcating a fresh phase in life: new haircut, new goals, new box to check on surveys.
  — Chloe Atkins, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2017
• The kitchen, dining room and living room are open, with a partial wall of shelves demarcating the living space from the eating areas.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 22 June 2018
• Borders demarcate lines of sovereignty between states—and the Palestinians do not have a state.
  — Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Two special zones — like the two waterfalls that now fill the footprint of the twin towers at ground zero — are demarcated, one of them raised, with a ramp.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• Home, a drive-in movie theater, a dingy park and a hospital room are demarcated with the rearrangement of old tires, cinder blocks and spare wood.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• Freeways were marketed as a way to demarcate communities — that’s what came up in the research for the show.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
• Each artist is given her own spread and the insignias used in the show demarcate the individual entries.
  — Danielle Avram, Dallas News, 7 July 2021
• Someone built the fences that demarcate the stern limits on the animals’ separate worlds.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2021
• The spiderweb of lanes demarcate grants by Lord Fairfax, whose family was given a vast tract of what is now Virginia by the British crown.
  — Jayne Orenstein, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• The Kurds control a border crossing with Syria in the area, which is within the formal boundary of their region demarcated by the Green Line.
  — Isabel Coles and, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
• An empathetic employee went inside and came back out with a roll of tape to demarcate six-foot squares.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 13 Nov. 2020
• Members of finance twitter have also joined in the fun, coming up with acronyms of their own to demarcate the outperformers.
  — Luke Kawa, The Seattle Times, 24 June 2017
• In the courtroom was Winslow’s father, the lean, towering Hall of Fame tight end of the same name, sat behind his son in a section demarcated for family.
  — Robert Klemko, SI.com, 13 June 2019
• New York City tried something similar, using paint, rubber curb and bollards to demarcate the turn lane.
  — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• Or, to put things a bit more sharply, the case will help demarcate the line between really bad journalism and libelous journalism.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022

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