How to Use demobilize in a Sentence

demobilize

verb

• Both leaders agreed to demobilize their armies and sign the peace treaty.
• Two of the 20 disarmed and demobilized weeks later in the town of Bouar were women.
  — Cassandra Vinograd, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2017
• Under the terms of the deal, thousands of rebels demobilized and the group is now a political party.
  — NBC News, 27 May 2018
• The firm has until July 6 to demobilize its crews and clear the work area, Baker told lawmakers in the email Monday.
  — oregonlive, 29 June 2021
• Worse, by the time the victors and the defeated met in Versailles, thousands of Allied troops had already demobilized and returned home.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 25 July 2019
• And to keep—try to push out and then demobilize some of the Shia militia forces operating in the country right now, which is counterproductive for the U.S. forces.
  — WSJ, 17 July 2017
• Fire crews will be demobilized over the next few days as containment increases and the fire is extinguished.
  — Tom McGhee, The Denver Post, 15 June 2017
• Over the next 24 hours, his team will demobilize the nine vessels, medical personnel and other equipment on the scene.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
• The county also declined to pay thousands of dollars in set-up and demobilizing costs, records show.
  — Jeff McDonald, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• The blaze has held steady at less than 1,000 acres, and state fire marshal’s office personnel are scheduled to demobilize Monday.
  — oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2020
• His efforts to demobilize armed groups and improve the military’s training suffered from delays and a lack of resources.
  — Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Foreign Affairs, 19 Jan. 2024
• The ex-guerrillas turned in thousands of weapons and demobilized after more than 50 years, helping bring Colombia’s homicide rate down to historic lows.
  — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 10 Apr. 2018
• Even before details of the arrest were known, FARC leaders condemned it as a set-up that would undermine almost 7,000 demobilized rebel fighters' trust in the peace process.
  — Joshua Goodman, Fox News, 10 Apr. 2018
• While the vast majority of the FARC demobilized under a 2016 peace deal, there are dissident factions.
  — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 13 Apr. 2018
• Yet Americans of that era had a deep and vocal dislike of standing armies, and Washington moved swiftly to demobilize the Continental Army once the war was over.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 11 Nov. 2019
• The virus now demobilizes the very system that facilitated its spread.
  — On Barak, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2020
• Santa Clara County officials announced plans to demobilize their mass testing and vaccination sites by the end of the month.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• All Red Cross shelters and animal shelters are in the process of being demobilized and no overnight evacuation shelters are available at this time.
  — CBS News, 2 Nov. 2019
• The regime are attempting not only to coerce a few activists but to broadly demobilize the opposition.
  — Jason Scheideman, Washington Post, 9 May 2017
• Scott says if a firefighter on a wildland blaze tests positive for Covid-19, plans are being devised to demobilize an engine crew or entire strike team from the fire line and place them in quarantine.
  — Paul Vercammen, CNN, 2 Aug. 2020
• There have been regional efforts in recent years to demobilize the M23, but its leaders have complained about the slow implementation of a peace accord and accused the Congolese army of waging war against it.
  — NBC News, 30 Mar. 2022
• There they were all medically examined thrice in 72 hours for signs of influenza before they could be demobilized.
  — Howard Phillips, Quartz Africa, 15 Mar. 2020
• To achieve lasting peace, Libya needs not only to find its way out of the current political crisis, but also to demobilize a generation of young men who have grown up knowing little but war.
  — New York Times, 21 June 2022
• Many firefighters had been demobilized, but about 698 personnel remained in the region.
  — Sacbee, sacbee.com, 8 June 2017
• But its most potent power is the ability to demobilize, by instructing progressives that Democrats aren’t serious about climate change and aren’t worth their time, money, and effort.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2021
• Last week, the conductor was safely and successfully installed, utilizing a smaller rig (see Figure 1) that has since demobilized from site.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Jan. 2024
• Authorities said the group was dressed in civilian clothing and returning a rural zone where members of another rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, had demobilized as part of a 2016 peace deal.
  — Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
• The federal and state governments should give all militias that do not qualify as indigenous police a grace period to disarm and demobilize.
  — Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2018
• More men are avoiding military service, while calls to demobilize exhausted frontline soldiers have grown.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024
• Colombia’s divisive 2016 peace accord with now demobilized FARC rebels.
  — Washington Post, 25 May 2018

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024