How to Use defund in a Sentence

defund

verb

• Demonstraters are calling on Durkan to defund the police.
  — Fox News, 26 June 2020
• The protest was one of many around the nation calling for an end to racial injustice and police brutality, as well as to defund the police.
  — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 3 July 2020
• Calls to defund or abolish the police have becoming a familiar demand at police brutality protests across the country.
  — Kristina Sgueglia and Scottie Andrew, CNN, 1 July 2020
• This is nonsense: Prop. 36 actually defunds drug treatment.
  — Salil Dudani, Orange County Register, 5 Oct. 2024
• Vance this month also said a future Trump administration would defund Planned Parenthood.
  — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2024
• Along with calls to defund the police, and protesters tearing down statues of men who once championed or traded in slavery, music bands and companies are rebranding and dropping racial terms from their names.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 27 June 2020
• The larger push to defund the police typically involves reallocating those funds into social programs.
  — Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 July 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Policing scholars tend to see the movement to defund the police in this context.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2020
• In Idaho, some conservatives now want the state to defund it.
  — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• In the wake of Floyd's death, advocates have called to defund the Police Department in Phoenix and elsewhere.
  — Uriel J. Garcia, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2020
• Other Biden ads seek to push back on Trump's false claims that Biden wants to defund the police and that his election would lead to violence in the streets.
  — Brian Slodysko, Star Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
• The shooting comes amid calls to defund the police department following the death of Floyd.
  — David Aaro, Fox News, 31 Dec. 2020
• Today, of course, the political wing once most likely to deify the FBI wants to defund it.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
• No, Biden has explicitly rejected the call by some on the left to defund the police.
  — Calvin Woodward, Star Tribune, 30 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024