How to Use rearm in a Sentence

rearm

verb
  • The treaty forbids the country to rearm.
  • Another country was rearming their enemies.
  • Small crews can refuel and rearm the craft in about ten minutes by a small crew.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 5 July 2026
  • Each side feared the other would use the initial pause to rearm and return to battle.
    — David Ignatius, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
  • The one promise Scholz has yet to make good on is his pledge to rearm Germany.
    — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • But within a few years, residents of the Jenin camp began to rearm.
    — Adam Rasgon, WSJ, 17 May 2022
  • Any cease-fire will just give Russia a chance to rearm before attacking again.
    — Boris Bondarev, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Forced to leave its equipment behind, it was rearmed by the United States.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2024
  • On defense, Europe has been rearming rapidly over the past decade.
    — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2026
  • There has been widespread push to rearm across Europe in the face of the Ukraine invasion.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 May 2026
  • As the world rearms, the risk of landmines becoming normalized again is real.
    — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Responding to complaints, Disney rearmed the cruise ship captains and gave them the green light to fire at will.
    — Hugo Martin, latimes.com, 29 June 2017
  • Putin has, in effect, helped to rearm Ukraine with the military equipment his ground forces will leave behind.
    — Michael Krepon, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Zelensky said his military needs to be able to hit Russian planes where they are housed and get rearmed with new missiles.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
  • Which is rearming at the double, more than any other European country.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Above all, to prepare to wage future wars, rather than continuing the habit of rearming for previous ones.
    — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 16 July 2009
  • Hezbollah is working hard to rebuild, rearm and to reconstitute itself.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Meanwhile, players need pay attention to their ammo and rearm by picking up guns that security guards or cops drop.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2017
  • Instead, Stalin rearmed during the non-aggression pact with Hitler.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2019
  • But the jihadist groups, who are sweeping across much of the Sahel, have reformed, rearmed and recruited new fighters.
    — W.b., The Economist, 3 July 2019
  • Analysts predicted Moscow's troops likely would take some time to rearm and regroup.
    — Arkansas Online, 10 July 2022
  • Analysts predicted Moscow’s troops likely would take some time to rearm and regroup.
    — Maria Grazia Murru, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2022
  • Fleeing jihadists are already regrouping in remote areas, rearming with the help of desert smugglers.
    — Anne Barnard and Hwaida Saad, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Israel meanwhile claimed that Hezbollah was rearming and rebuilding.
    — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026
  • What’s often left out of this story is why the Japanese were refueling and rearming at that moment.
    — James Downie, Twin Cities, 8 June 2017
  • Russia is rearming Iran with the world’s best missiles and air-defense systems, aided by China.
    — John Seiler, Oc Register, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Kyiv officials fear that any cease-fire or peace deal will just give the Kremlin time to rearm and invade again unless it is deterred by military force.
    — Illia Novikov, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, from neighboring countries, the perpetrators licked their wounds, rearmed, and resolved to finish the job.
    — Jonathan M. Hansen, TIME, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Israel, meanwhile, claimed that Hezbollah was rearming and rebuilding.
    — ABC News, 31 May 2026
  • The Chinese Navy would use those bases to refuel and rearm, extending Beijing’s reach.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2021

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