Example sentences for: disarming

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

  • 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”).

  • He has a hearty, disarming manner, and expresses his enjoyment of the moment with body language that is fluid and comfortable.

  • His "encyclopedic" press conference (Mark Shields, NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ) was Issue 1, his midweek cancellation of the deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal from Bosnia was Issue 2, and his disarming chat at the White House with conservative critics of affirmative action ranked as Issue 3.

  • It had a humorous quotient to it, there was something disarming about it, but just think of anyone else doing it and you realize just how fatuous it was.

  • Bush was even more disarming when Forbes went after him with a long and squirrelly question that accused him of increasing the size of government in Texas, lowering educational standards, and supporting a fraudulent tax cut--before compounding the indictment by asking Bush if he intended to do to the nation what he did to his own state.


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