Example sentences for: disarming

How can you use “disarming” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After years of disarming girl-next-door normalcy, however, Bartoli may have begun indulging in the clichés of diva naughtiness, such as a habit of canceling appearances, including a much-publicized Battle-like spat with the Metropolitan Opera's general manager, Joseph Volpe.

  • Viral proteins that suppress silencing by disarming the PTGS-based antiviral defense mechanism were discovered by plant virologists in 1998 (Anandalakshmi et al.

  • Asked the about the expression "Suffer fools gladly" (Corinthians 11:19), the first 10 people surveyed ventured a source with disarming speed: "Wordsworth," "Hamlet ," "Hamlet ," "Hamlet ," "Wordsworth," "Beowulf ," "Chaucer," "Macbeth ," "Herrick," and "Gerard Manly Hopkins."

  • In the right hands, it can be disarming (“The speculation has no foundation”), profound (“Death leaves a gap in the social structure”), echolatic (“Exit access is that part of a means of egress that leads to an entrance to an exit”), hortatory (“If we do nothing to change this country, we shall remain frozen in the status quo”).

  • A screwball political satire about a senator (played by Beatty) who loses his senses and begins to babble the truth on the stump, the film has a kamikaze comic spirit that's spectacularly disarming, particularly coming from its hitherto overcautious auteur--not to mention a major studio owned by right-of-Attila Rupert Murdoch.


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