How to Use mobilize in a Sentence

mobilize

verb
Definition of mobilizenext
Synonyms for mobilizenext
  • 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.
  • 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
  • The United States should mobilize to prevent famine across the Horn.
    — Johnnie Carson, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2024
  • In the recent election, the PML-N did little to mobilize its own base.
    — Sarah Khan, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Artists can mobilize billions of fans to become a force of good.
    — Igor Beuker, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2022
  • After a ride of about five minutes, the truck backed to the edge of the parc fermé, the secure staging where the bobsleds mobilize near the start gate.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • To address it, experts say people need to sit in the pain, connect with it, and mobilize their way out of it.
    — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 26 May 2022
  • Milwaukee mobilized — at least as far as the food store.
    — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The objective is to strengthen and mobilize the joints in an effort to stave off injuries.
    — Erin Strout, Outside Online, 10 May 2022
  • Biden has leaned on Whitmer to mobilize voters on his behalf in the swing state of Michigan.
    — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The challenge is to figure out how to mobilize people to make those choices.
    — Grace Huckins, Wired, 10 Aug. 2022
  • But there’s one key group their strategies might fail to mobilize: Black voters.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Trump on the ballot in 2024 almost surely would once again mobilize the voters Democrats need.
    — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • All this is designed to whip up anger, to mobilize a lackluster Democratic base in the runup to the fall election.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 5 May 2022
  • Renters facing displacement from such projects say that timetable leaves them with less time to mobilize — or fight back.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • There’s a lot of ill will over AI search’s mistakes and missteps and critics are mobilizing en masse.
    — Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 29 June 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
  • It’s also been a long time since Americans have thought about mobilizing for such a war.
    — Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The footage mobilized a sport once considered the exclusive province of white kids.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Ukrainian officials called for more weapons to fight Russia as both sides mobilize in the east for what are expected to be some of the fiercest battles of the war so far.
    — WSJ, 8 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Struggling to mobilize enough fresh infantry to make good losses while also forming new units, the Ukrainian military has gotten desperate—and begun poaching specialists from their support units and sending them to the front line.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
  • In a Time interview, Trump vowed to mobilize the military to help deport millions of undocumented immigrants.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024

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