How to Use demarcation in a Sentence
demarcation
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The clothes could be cut with scissors along lines of demarcation.
—Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2022
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In hindsight, the demarcation line couldn’t have been more clear.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
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But his arrival serves as a distinct line of demarcation for the group.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
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There's a demarcation between those two and the rest of the center group.
—Max Bultman, New York Times, 19 June 2026
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The demarcation process was stopped, and the Egyptian army led the convoy away.
—Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
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On the border, joint demarcation was still on the table, Gabir said.
—Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
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The unofficial gap between the haves and have nots will have a clear line of demarcation.
—Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 30 June 2022
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There should be no demarcation of units by income and all residents should share the full range of amenities.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2022
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Part two was the demarcation and all of our lives were forever different.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 17 June 2024
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That was kind of a line of demarcation where society changed completely.
—Greta Rainbow, Vulture, 7 May 2021
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This marks an important line of demarcation in the Bengals’ draft plan.
—Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026
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The system has to be changed to take out the word closed, and training must occur for proper demarcation of what is going on.
—Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
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The four-million-viewer level has been seen as something of a demarcation point in recent months.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 26 May 2026
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And while that demarcation is clear enough, the realm of Speedmasters is otherwise vast and hazy.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 9 Jan. 2025
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The idea of having that clear line of demarcation where something from home has fallen away was definitely part of the plan.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2022
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In the modern day, a multitude of theories abound as to why this line of demarcation fizzled.
—Hampton Bourne, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
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Instead, 2026 is all about soft, lived-in shades of blonde, without a clear line of demarcation at the root.
—Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 7 Jan. 2026
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Pitras said shifting between clock and event time is easier for him without the sun’s clear demarcation between day and night.
—Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2025
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Her life with Kelly carries a hard line of demarcation between the before and the after.
—Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
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With new demarcations of land, Pinjar reflects how such violence scaled up.
—JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
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There’s this blurry demarcation line between what's fake and what's real that is so central to the idea of Barbie.
—Allie Jones, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
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Savala’s victims have come to view his 2012 conviction as a line of demarcation.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2025
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Then, apply the orange to a makeup sponge and pat it on the line of demarcation to buff out the line and create the gradient effect.
—Rebecca Norris, InStyle, 8 June 2026
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There is no clear demarcation between Gerry's dreams and his fantasies, his not-quite-asleep and his not-really-awake.
—Seija Rankin, EW.com, 12 Nov. 2020
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For many Cuban émigrés, the year one fled the island is telling enough to serve as a rough demarcation between generations.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
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Looking back at the last three years there is a clear and concise line of demarcation - the $145/$146 area.
—Jay Woods, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
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If there's a demarcation to be made between the good and bad episodes, it can be seen in how the characters came to service the premises, and not the other way around.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2022
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Seoul's military said the soldiers returned north of the military demarcation line and did not return fire.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
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The polluted site will be made safe with an 18-inch surface cover of clean soil over a demarcation barrier.
—Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
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So, instead of work-life balance, consider the concept of work-life boundary that makes a case for clear demarcation between work and non-work lives.
—Anjali Chaudhry, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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