How to Use mobilize in a Sentence

mobilize

verb
  • They couldn't mobilize enough support to pass the new law.
  • The government had to mobilize the army quickly.
  • They have the ability to mobilize quickly.
  • Several groups have mobilized to oppose the proposed new law.
  • More than 10,000 troops were mobilized for war.
  • Since the start of the war in Gaza, Taj said their teams have mobilized to try to meet the desperate need for aid.
    Monica Haider, CNN, 11 Mar. 2024
  • In the recent election, the PML-N did little to mobilize its own base.
    Sarah Khan, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Milwaukee mobilized — at least as far as the food store.
    Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The experts assumed that this would soon change, and that they’d be mobilized in a hot war against malevolent fakers.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • In Texas, Black mothers mobilized to push back against book bans in their children’s school districts.
    Taylor Crumpton, Essence, 26 July 2023
  • Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu vowed on Oct. 28 that no more would be mobilized in the near future.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Then, once serving in the military, they can later be mobilized – or called up to fight – by the government.
    Xiaofei Xu, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Launch team: Super fans can be mobilized to promote your IP and reach a wider audience.
    Kary Oberbrunner, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The Israel Defense Forces began to mobilize troops on Oct. 7 — but without trains or buses available to transfer them to the south.
    Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Men from rural areas are far more likely to be mobilized than those from major cities.
    Timothy Frye, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Our thoughts are with them as well as their families and the emergency services mobilized.
    Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
  • In many places, troops have been deployed to quell the unrest, and services like Twitter and Google have been blocked to stop protesters from mobilizing.
    Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2023
  • Fans of Peggy and Molly are now mobilizing to get the pair reunited.
    Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The data is used by precinct organizers to mobilize them on Election Day.
    TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Though the gap has closed in recent years, Democrats haven’t been able to mobilize enough voters to offset the Republican advantage.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 3 July 2023
  • Drill is among the growing ranks of veterans and reservists at the center of the mass protest movement mobilized against Israel’s new far-right government.
    Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • But even more than bullets, Ukraine needs fighters, leading to a search for new ways to mobilize the population and stronger measures against draft dodgers.
    Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But the force has a capacity to mobilize when necessary.
    Jon Gertner, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Rapid-response units of WGA members mobilize to picket at studio gates and at location shoot sites based on tip-offs.
    Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
  • The OFOs are in a tough spot with few options but to remove tipping—hard to mobilize their users to fight a minimum wage for delivery workers, but expect some to try.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The community mobilized to scour the area – but despite their best efforts, the girl's body was recovered in a nearby creek bed about four miles away four days later.
    Christina Coulter, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2024
  • But the local community is mobilizing against the project.
    Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The response to Becky was a testament to the hit-making Latin music machine: the sheer star power of big acts being able to mobilize a whole community.
    Vulture, 21 Apr. 2023
  • And Swift, who is hugely popular in China, could be expected to be able to mobilize her legions of Chinese fans.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The guarantees won by movie and TV writers include much that their songwriter peers, who have also been mobilizing around the rise of AI, might applaud.
    Marc Hogan, Pitchfork, 28 Sep. 2023

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