How to Use demarcate in a Sentence

demarcate

verb
  • The sides demarcated the armistice line on a map in grease pencil.
    Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The agents placed their bounty in front of the garage in a spot demarcated by yellow cones.
    Benoît Morenne, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
  • By demarcating changes in units of one, counters give form to the passage of time.
    Brandon Keim, WIRED, 28 May 2009
  • Outside the buildings, a concrete strip on the ground demarcates the border.
    Edward Wong, New York Times, 18 July 2023
  • The Patriot’s dining room is demarcated by a large bar and flanked by a pair of open kitchens.
    Kate Washington, sacbee, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The only thing that demarcates the level of celebrity is the price said celebrity sets for his or her messages.
    John Cullen, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The black hole is demarcated by an event horizon, a point of no return: matter that falls in cannot get back out.
    George Musser, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
  • The Colorado River demarcates the state lines of Arizona and Nevada.
    Richard Ruelas, azcentral, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Carpet tiles demarcate six-foot black circles around every desk in the open floor plan.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 June 2020
  • But in Achin, the U.S. and its Afghan allies are winning on a battlefront demarcated in green and brown.
    Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2017
  • Over 2,000 people were killed, and this bolt out of the blue suddenly demarcated peace from war.
    Jake Nevins, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
  • The Live on Patrol video, recorded Nov. 11, shows the section of roadway where Leonard was lying doesn’t have a white line to demarcate the roadway from the shoulder.
    Liz Sawyer, Star Tribune, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Her footsteps, the movements of her hands and arms, the long, rounded contours of her face and shoulders—all demarcate clear, strong perimeters.
    Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • White areas were neatly demarcated from the black ones that didn’t.
    Colin Kinniburgh, New Republic, 9 Aug. 2017
  • During practice, the track had created pods of seats and then put down stickers to demarcate where one pod should start and the other end.
    Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 27 May 2021
  • Milestone birthdays have a way of demarcating a fresh phase in life: new haircut, new goals, new box to check on surveys.
    Chloe Atkins, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The kitchen, dining room and living room are open, with a partial wall of shelves demarcating the living space from the eating areas.
    Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 22 June 2018
  • Borders demarcate lines of sovereignty between states—and the Palestinians do not have a state.
    Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Two special zones — like the two waterfalls that now fill the footprint of the twin towers at ground zero — are demarcated, one of them raised, with a ramp.
    Brian Seibert, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Home, a drive-in movie theater, a dingy park and a hospital room are demarcated with the rearrangement of old tires, cinder blocks and spare wood.
    Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Freeways were marketed as a way to demarcate communities — that’s what came up in the research for the show.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Each artist is given her own spread and the insignias used in the show demarcate the individual entries.
    Danielle Avram, Dallas News, 7 July 2021
  • Someone built the fences that demarcate the stern limits on the animals’ separate worlds.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2021
  • The spiderweb of lanes demarcate grants by Lord Fairfax, whose family was given a vast tract of what is now Virginia by the British crown.
    Jayne Orenstein, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The Kurds control a border crossing with Syria in the area, which is within the formal boundary of their region demarcated by the Green Line.
    Isabel Coles and, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
  • An empathetic employee went inside and came back out with a roll of tape to demarcate six-foot squares.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Members of finance twitter have also joined in the fun, coming up with acronyms of their own to demarcate the outperformers.
    Luke Kawa, The Seattle Times, 24 June 2017
  • In the courtroom was Winslow’s father, the lean, towering Hall of Fame tight end of the same name, sat behind his son in a section demarcated for family.
    Robert Klemko, SI.com, 13 June 2019
  • New York City tried something similar, using paint, rubber curb and bollards to demarcate the turn lane.
    Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • So bookshelves that rise nearly to the ceiling — stocked with books from Larry McMurtry’s bookshop — demarcate three different sleeping areas and a living space that includes a 10-seat dining table.
    Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2024

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