How to Use weaponize in a Sentence

weaponize

verb

• That's just a taste of how this app could be weaponized.
  — CBS News, 17 Mar. 2024
• And will there be any big gaffes that one side can weaponize against the other?
  — Heather Hendershot / Made By History, TIME, 27 June 2024
• Therapy speak has been weaponized in the name of self-care.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
• Swift isn’t the only celeb to weaponize SEO in their favor.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2023
• Hip-hop lyrics have, for years, been weaponized in U.S. courtrooms.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 June 2024
• Trent has shown off-the-dribble pizzazz but doesn’t get to the rim nearly enough to weaponize.
  — oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2021
• Trump’s attempt to weaponize the census ends not with a bang but a whimper.
  — Zeke Miller, Twin Cities, 11 July 2019
• But now it has been weaponized, and Roy Moore has a bullseye on his Facebook page.
  — Kyle Whitmire, AL.com, 9 June 2017
• And the Lakers, of course, have LeBron James, whom the team is starting to weaponize as a center.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
• Food has been weaponized in the last couple of decades in that very specific way, for sure.
  — Rachel Sugar, Vox, 26 June 2019
• But the topic here was wolves, and that weaponized everything.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2018
• The drones in the video were not weaponized — but the technology to do so is rapidly evolving.
  — Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Apr. 2018
• But the spam is more than just an annoyance; it can also be weaponized.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024
• How might this be weaponized for some bizarre narrative?
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 17 July 2023
• That is something that the right has figured out and weaponized and the left is grappling with and wading into.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
• His job was to harness their powers to fight disease rather than weaponize it.
  — Brendan Borrell, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2021
• The package also includes a compact weaponized laser and the electric power to fire the laser 20 to 30 times.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2017
• Trump weaponized this cynical ploy on the campaign trail.
  — Nina Burleigh, Newsweek, 5 Oct. 2017
• Young Thug is one of the latest examples of an artist having his lyrics weaponized against him in the courtroom.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 26 Feb. 2024
• But as the number of lake trout decline, there will be fewer carcasses to weaponize against the eggs.
  — National Geographic, 21 June 2019
• On Succession, drinking and dining tend to be weaponized in the service of satire.
  — Jay Cheshes, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2023
• Their latest salvo of refuse claims that Trump has weaponized his whiteness.
  — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 15 Sep. 2017
• On the contrary, it’s often been weaponized against people of color.
  — Morgan Jerkins, Allure, 15 Aug. 2017
• Trump wanted to weaponize the vice presidency to try to stay in power.
  — CBS News, 12 June 2022
• Rather than just being used for spying, this was the decade the digital world was weaponized to break through to the physical.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 23 Dec. 2019
• There have been other moments in which Teigen has been able to take her influence and weaponize it for truth.
  — Gillian Laab, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2018
• As of late, both agencies have been weaponized against people seeking a better way of life.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 14 June 2018
• Duncan was far more fortunate than most young men who have their lyrics weaponized against them in court.
  — Erik Nielson, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2020
• At the same time, the whole conversation about the border has been weaponized by Trump and his acolytes to demagogue the idea of immigration in the first place.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
• As someone who has spent a lifetime as a public voice for social justice, I have been chagrined to see how even bland, neutral words can be quickly weaponized for cultural warfare.
  — Penny Abeywardena, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025