How to Use mobilization in a Sentence

mobilization

noun
  • So the mobilization that's happened in South Africa around the oceans has started, but there's much more work to be done.
    — Outside Online, 26 June 2024
  • The law has raised fears that a second wave of mobilization for the war in Ukraine could be imminent.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The key thing in the last few months is that, at the end of September, Russia began mobilization.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
  • After the chaos and shock brought on by the partial mobilization last fall, things have settled down.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2023
  • At home, Ukraine has stumbled on the overhaul of mobilization rules.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Tickets for flights out of Russia have shot up in price in the wake of the country’s partial mobilization.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the Putin mobilization of troops is not something that’s going to help the Russian side for quite a while.
    — Heather Landy, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2022
  • These groups all aimed to engineer the kind of mass mobilization around climate change that Skocpol had called for.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The mass mobilization to pick fruit has already begun in earnest.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Here's how to do a mobilization backbend: Start in a split stance, with one foot slightly behind you and the heel slightly raised.
    — Jacqueline Andriakos, Health, 18 Aug. 2023
  • But there was a true general mobilization, in the literal sense of the term.
    — The New Yorker, 5 May 2022
  • Now vaccines have freed others to join them, and Monday was the first big mobilization.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 9 June 2021
  • The 9/11 attacks made his Navy mobilizations more frequent, and his time at home more cherished.
    — Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • That could make new mobilizations for its war in Ukraine more efficient – and much harder to evade.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2023
  • Patients take a mobilization medicine that moves their blood stem cells from bone marrow into the blood stream.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Sometimes the mobilization or the innovation has to come first, and the government has to play catch-up.
    — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
  • But the pool of voters needing mobilization appears to have shrunk, too, as turnout has hit record levels.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Yoga poses like legs up the wall can help with nerve mobilization to reduce pain.
    — Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Why isn't there more grassroots mobilization at the state level?
    — CBS News, 25 June 2023
  • Analysts of the Palestinian scene see the glimmers of a new era of mobilization.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 May 2021
  • Most reservists were already in Israel at the time of the call-up – the largest such compulsory mobilization since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
    — Helen Coster and Alexander Cornwell, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
  • And last year, 1,858 crew mobilization orders couldn’t be filled.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 June 2022
  • The Russians appear to be laying the groundwork for a larger, and longer, mobilization.
    — Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The call-up age has been lowered from 27 to 25 but other parts of a mobilization bill are still struggling to pass through the Ukrainian parliament.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
  • With no idea how to escape the war, Igor contacted a friend who fled Russia to avoid mobilization and who told him to call Go by the Forest.
    — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Multiple pro-rights groups called for a mobilization and mass gathering at the court at 5 p.m.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2022
  • This outcome may be the purpose of the recent Russian troop mobilization.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The era saw the full mobilization of the nation and large numbers of women in the military, including the first female officers in the U.S. Navy.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2022
  • As with the New Deal, the substance of these policies rested less with national policy designs than with the aspirations and mobilization of the era’s social movements.
    — Colin Gordon, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2025
  • That ubiquity is also why nationalism is so inescapable, and so powerful as a force for mobilization.
    — Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025

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