How to Use disarm in a Sentence

disarm

verb

• It took more than an hour to disarm the bomb.
• The terrorists have refused to disarm.
• The government has been unsuccessful at disarming the rebels.
• The 68-year-old man tried to disarm Liu and was also stabbed.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2022
• This works with Alexa to arm and disarm the alarms or just to check the status of the system.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 12 May 2021
• With that, Fin lunges at the boy to try and disarm him, but the gun goes off amid the struggle.
  — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024
• Police said two men helped to disarm Aldrich the night of the shooting.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
• Use the key to reverse the lock the shackle to disarm the alarm for travel.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2022
• Even nearer the end of the book, Smith begins to disarm this fear.
  — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
• The footage shows the man tackle Calhoun, disarm him and shoot him.
  — Tom Steele, Dallas News, 12 June 2020
• The sheriff said the pastor was armed, but the suspect was able to disarm him.
  — CBS News, 3 Jan. 2021
• The victim pulled out a gun and tried to fight back but was disarmed by Fisher.
  — Connor Van Ligten, azcentral, 28 Feb. 2020
• The two deputies managed to disarm and subdue the suspect.
  — Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
• In a grim tactic, the men in the church use a body as a decoy to disarm the attackers, and rush out.
  — Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 16 May 2021
• The Democrats had a chance to disarm this ticking time bomb during the lame-duck session but chose not to.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2023
• The pastor was armed and drew his firearm, but the suspect lunged at the pastor and was able to disarm him, the sheriff said.
  — Author: Dana Branham, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Jan. 2021
• That’s why the first thing that all tyrants do is disarm the people, just like Chavez did when he was first elected.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2024
• One of the suspects raised a handgun prompting the man to attempt to disarm the suspect.
  — Lillian Reed, baltimoresun.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• Roland disarmed one of robbers and shot him in the leg before the other two attacked him.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2023
• The driver was found with a pistol in his front right pocket and was disarmed.
  — Jason Wolf, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2024
• Democrats have a chance to disarm this gun before McCarthy and his colleagues place it to the side of the nation’s head in a few months.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
• But for all of the momentum, the calls to disarm police have been met with many hurdles.
  — oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2020
• When a white man allegedly tried to disarm a Black man, a gun went off and a firefight broke out.
  — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• Cheng, 52, charged the suspect and tried to disarm him allowing others to jump in, Barnes said.
  — Byjulia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 May 2022
• It’s sort of our duty to try to disarm this a bit and process it so people can move through their fear and anger to a degree.
  — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2021
• She’s best friends with the white chief of police, who is played with disarming charm by Don Johnson.
  — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
• On the right, there is more bravado: calls to disarm Gaza, and to suppress Israeli Arabs as a fifth column.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 21 May 2021
• The neighbor was able to disarm Nguyen, who then jumped in a white Toyota Sienna minivan and fled the area.
  — Paul Best, Fox News, 2 May 2022
• But as Israel’s campaign to disarm Hezbollah continues, civilians are paying the highest price, including 127 children who have been killed in less than three weeks, according to the health ministry.
  — Kara Fox, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
• Translating the new model’s complex curves to desktop scale is no small feat, but one that Amalgam Collection has achieved with disarming accuracy.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024