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Example sentences for "disarming"

Lexicographically close words:
disapproving; disapprovingly; disarm; disarmament; disarmed; disarms; disarrange; disarranged; disarrangement; disarranging
  1. I took in hand the question of thoroughly disarming the whole province, and a bill dealing with Lower Burma villages on the lines of the Upper Burma village regulation was framed.

  2. Colonel (afterward General) Herkimer was empowered to complete the disarming of the Tories, and General Schuyler and his forces marched back to Albany.

  3. Then he went into the Harim and gave the rubies to his wife Afifah, who asked him, "What is the worth of these with thee and with other of the kings?

  4. When the circumcision is at an end and ye all return to your dwellings, then do as thou willest.

  5. The trouble with Val was that she could always feel sympathy for another person's point of view, and that frame of mind is very disarming to anger.

  6. Nothing is more likely to bring over Germany than France partially disarming without reference to Prussia, and I sincerely hope that this project of Daru's will be carried out.

  7. I was going to," Jon said with a disarming grin.

  8. Their father caught himself and looked at each with a disarming grin.

  9. But again there was that disarming grin, which Jon repaid in kind before leaving to get his tools and go after the mite of new metal.

  10. I began to clear the trees from the pyramid, but was unable to finish work because of the disarming of my workmen, owing to a revolution that a certain Teodosio Canto had initiated against the government of Yucatan.

  11. She demanded the evacuation of Tsing-tau, the disarming of the warships there and the handing over of the territory to Japan for ultimate reversion to China.

  12. It is clear that James would not accept his story of disarming Ruthven; Henderson omits that in his second deposition.

  13. Lord Roberts had frankly recognised that the destruction of the Governments and organised armies of the Republics would be followed by the more difficult and lengthy task of disarming the entire Boer population within their borders.

  14. In this alone he was really opposed to the wishes of France; and her pertinacity in disarming him seems to have been the chief source of those capricious changes of his disposition, which we find for three or four years at this period.

  15. That meant the disarming of our departement, and it flashed through my mind that the Germans must be nearer than the official announcements had told us.

  16. Was it possible that it was only a week ago that I had heard the drum beat for the disarming of the Seine et Marne?

  17. On the 14th of August he led into the Delhi Camp the moveable column which had already done yeoman's service by disarming the mutinous regiments at Phillour and Umritsar, and destroying the Sealkote Brigade of rebels at Trimmoo Ghât.

  18. The import of such an injunction was not lost on the people, and general disarming of the agricultural and the artisan classes marked the success of Hideyoshi's policy.

  19. Benkei made light of disarming a lad of tender years and seemingly slender strength.

  20. I'm afraid that was only my clumsy effort at metaphor," responded Elton with a disarming smile.

  21. She looked up into Patricia's face with a smile so wholly disarming that Patricia was forced to laugh.

  22. To these latter he probably volunteered information about the other interviews he had had, thereby disarming their criticisms.

  23. His design, indeed, reached at no more than the mere disarming of M.

  24. On the part of English, the disarming of the Indians was excused on the ground that Englishmen's houses had been robbed in several instances by the Indians, which was a consideration that somewhat satisfied the chief.

  25. Riding between the opposing lines, the Brigadier told the would-be mutineers that he meant to save them from temptation by disarming them.

  26. Thus Lawrence had scotched the snake, but like Wheeler at Cawnpore and many another in India at that time, he refused to kill it by disarming the native regiments under his command.

  27. Robin surveyed her rather wistfully, and then smiled in a disarming fashion.

  28. There is something very disarming about the Twins' misdemeanours.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disarming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.