How to Use demarcation in a Sentence

demarcation

noun

• The clothes could be cut with scissors along lines of demarcation.
  — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2022
• The line of demarcation was clear in the 2019 postseason.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2024
• But six seems to be a pretty heavy line of demarcation.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 13 Jan. 2023
• That day has become a clear demarcation in time for me.
  — Becca Andrews, Wired, 3 Feb. 2022
• But his arrival serves as a distinct line of demarcation for the group.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• On the border, joint demarcation was still on the table, Gabir said.
  — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
• In 1941, the demarcation line was just a few kilometers south, in the Charente.
  — Mathias Énard, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• The unofficial gap between the haves and have nots will have a clear line of demarcation.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 30 June 2022
• The system has to be changed to take out the word closed, and training must occur for proper demarcation of what is going on.
  — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
• If there's a demarcation to be made between the good and bad episodes, it can be seen in how the characters came to service the premises, and not the other way around.
  — Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2022
• There should be no demarcation of units by income and all residents should share the full range of amenities.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2022
• Three is the next demarcation to become an orange zone.
  — Karol Markowicz, Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 2021
• Seven of the eight playoff teams in the West have at least 100 points, kind of the line of demarcation for a legitimate Stanley Cup contender.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2023
• There’s this blurry demarcation line between what's fake and what's real that is so central to the idea of Barbie.
  — Allie Jones, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• The idea of having that clear line of demarcation where something from home has fallen away was definitely part of the plan.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• Part two was the demarcation and all of our lives were forever different.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 17 June 2024
• For many Cuban émigrés, the year one fled the island is telling enough to serve as a rough demarcation between generations.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
• In the modern day, a multitude of theories abound as to why this line of demarcation fizzled.
  — Hampton Bourne, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
• Sparkling wine, says Lee Pancake, predates the demarcation of Champagne as a region in France, as does the method by which the famed bubbly — bougiest of all sparkling wines — is produced.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Dec. 2021
• Known for its blue huts straddling concrete slabs that form the demarcation line, Panmunjom draws visitors from both sides who want to see the Cold War’s last frontier.
  — Hyung-Jin Kim, Kim Tong-Hyung and Tara Copp, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2023
• The demarcation had nothing to do with the quality of anybody’s work and everything to do with who was suddenly high on PCP.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2022
• There is no clear demarcation between Gerry's dreams and his fantasies, his not-quite-asleep and his not-really-awake.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 12 Nov. 2020
• For millions of families, there will be no familiar demarcation, no moment when the kids leave, entrusted to the care of others for much of the day.
  — Jenny Anderson, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2020
• Many already had their hopes dashed that new demarcations would take place in the first 30 days of his administration, which began Jan. 1.
  — Edmar Barros and Mauricio Savarese, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2023
• That was kind of a line of demarcation where society changed completely.
  — Greta Rainbow, Vulture, 7 May 2021
• The line is a demarcation China has used to assert territorial claims in the South China Sea.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2023
• There are heated disagreements about the demarcation of AGI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• The first evening, though, I was depressed especially by the lack of demarcation between shower and toilet.
  — Amit Chaudhuri, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• The second apron is about $18 million more than the luxury tax line, so the market for Caldwell-Pope indicates that re-signing him would still cross that critical line of demarcation.
  — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 27 June 2024
• Although that conflict was formally settled with a border demarcation, Russia remains the sole country that controls territory seized from the Qing empire in what the Chinese vilify as unfair treaties.
  — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024