Example Sentences

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It came as more than 5,200 of the former rebel group’s fighters were disarming just weeks before a visit by Pope Francis and a national election.

From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2019

However, scores of demonstrators took to the streets of Bangui on Sunday to complain that French forces were disarming only Seleka fighters, exposing Muslims to revenge attacks by anti-balaka.

From Reuters • Dec. 24, 2013

Her “quick wit and gracious tact” were disarming.

From Washington Post

Those who had watched Leneman at work could report that, whether or not he quite achieved his ends, his means and his theories were disarming.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though to be sure you were disarming suspicion by so cautiously keeping the road between you.

From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Yonge, Charlotte Mary