How to Use defund in a Sentence

defund

verb

• Still, some worry the push to defund the police is rash.
  — Simone Weichselbaum and Nicole Lewis, USA TODAY, 9 June 2020
• As a call to action, defund the police can have a variety of meanings.
  — Alexandra Ossola, Quartz, 9 June 2020
• What does protester rallying cry 'defund the police' mean?
  — NBC News, 8 June 2020
• Higher education has been defunded by state to the point where not having courses flat leaves them out of business.
  — oregonlive, 12 May 2020
• Just to add to the conversation, defunding the police doesn’t mean abolishing the police.
  — Asia Ewart, refinery29.com, 9 June 2020
• The groups are asking the council to defund the Phoenix Police Department.
  — Chelsea Curtis, azcentral, 3 June 2020
• As local governments are making decisions about budget cuts, some protesters have a suggestion: defund the police.
  — The Atlantic, 6 June 2020
• It’s time for Speaker Pelosi to move beyond partisan proposals and radical efforts to defund the police.
  — Elizabeth Depompei, The Indianapolis Star, 10 June 2020
• Trump, on Thursday, accused Democrats of supporting proposals to defund law enforcement.
  — Kerry Picket, Washington Examiner, 4 June 2020
• Her crime: Juarez failed to back a goal to defund the police by 50%.
  — Timothy Egan New York Times, Star Tribune, 28 June 2021
• One side of me wants to say, yeah, defund the police, take it away.
  — ExpressNews.com, 22 June 2020
• Lawmakers agreed to defund the IWC as part of the deal.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• The bills were written in response to efforts to defund the police in cities across the U.S.
  — Dallas News, 21 June 2021
• There’s still a very strong movement to defund the police, even in the middle of a five-alarm fire.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• Many of the letter writers urged the council to defund the police.
  — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 19 June 2020
• Calls to defund the police rang out in protests across the country and through the halls of city government.
  — Jennifer Swann, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2020
• Many demonstrators have called for the city to defund the police.
  — CBS News, 13 June 2020
• A year after mass protests calling to defund the police, we’re set to elect a cop to lead the city.
  — Willy Blackmore, Curbed, 28 Oct. 2021
• Biden even countered calls to defund the police in an ode to them.
  — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 15 May 2023
• City and counties that try to defund the police would lose their state funding.
  — Gray Rohrer, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• That’s because people don’t vote for Democrats to defund things.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 28 Mar. 2022
• The shootings come amid a movement by some to reform or defund the police.
  — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 17 Aug. 2020
• Thirteen percent of whites and 28% of blacks wanted to defund them.
  — Karlyn Bowman, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• Zemault’s death prompted protests and calls to defund the police.
  — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Feb. 2021
• Collins charged that Allred voted to defund the police by $600 million.
  — Dallas News, 19 Oct. 2020
• In the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of police, calls to defund and dismantle law enforcement swept the country.
  — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2020
• The 30-second spot attacks Biden for wanting to defund the police.
  — TheWeek, 21 Aug. 2020
• Rubio has tried to tie Demings to the far-left’s defund the police movement.
  — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2022
• Trump has pledged to defund gender-affirming care—and to ban it for minors.
  — Madison Pauly and Sarah Szilagy, Them, 5 Nov. 2024
• Then, an activist who has been leading calls to defund the police is found dead and that sabbatical will have to wait, the police chief tells him.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Feb 2025