Example Sentences

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“We will disarm Serbia,” Vucic promised, saying the government would outline the new rules later Friday.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2023

Sometimes the poem will disarm you with a self-conscious joke:

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2021

Under the peace accord, the guerrillas will disarm and form a political organization.

From US News • Sep. 26, 2016

The announcement comes as President Santos’s government has been locked in talks since November 2012 with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, with discussions now centered on how that group’s fighters will disarm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2016

“It’s true that the signs have to do with a third party,” I tell her, fast, so she can’t get another word in and, besides, I am hoping the truth will disarm her.

From "The Misfits" by James Howe