How to Use disrupt in a Sentence

disrupt

verb
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  • The barking dogs disrupted my sleep.
  • The weather disrupted our travel plans.
  • The landslide is one of several recent ones to disrupt rail service in the area.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The cut also alerted scientists to the fact that the eruption had disrupted the seafloor, which isn’t easy to spot.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But even with Kerr keying the press, Australia could not disrupt England’s ability to play out of the back.
    — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The body creates too many abnormal white blood cells, which disrupts the body's healthy blood cells.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The neighborhood’s peace is disrupted when a gang of menacing neighbors take over the street.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Stress can also disrupt the balance of immune cells in the skin and weaken the skin’s barrier function.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 14 June 2023
  • One thing Michigan disrupted on the Alabama offensive line was a direct challenge to the group’s set of rules as a unit.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Got to have the necessary and correct ball pressure to disrupt opponents.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2023
  • The joint session was disrupted when a violent mob breached the Capitol building, leading to a pause in the proceedings.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Customers would show up in the physical queue at the restaurant to pick up — a process that often disrupted the flow of in-person ordering.
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The new Moon of the 18th accents family matters and getting a better grip on home affairs, and events near the 26th will have a tendency to disrupt routines and throw you off track.
    — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 16 June 2023
  • The pause could also disrupt plans to restore the Lower Albina streetscape with freeway covers.
    — oregonlive, 27 June 2023
  • Rioters have torched and smashed cars and buildings, including a school, and disrupted buses and trams.
    — Time, 29 June 2023
  • Yet Zhang may be one of the first novelists to devote serious attention to the ways that the climate crisis may disrupt the world’s food supply.
    — Mayukh Sen, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Weather and other delays could always disrupt flight schedules and routes on April 8, meaning travelers might miss some or all of the event.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Photos: The damage wrought by Otis The storm blocked roads and disrupted communications.
    — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The announcement was prompted by a move by Mr. Netanyahu to disrupt a vote in Parliament that would choose members of the committee that selects new judges.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • The Yurok and Karuk tribes have been connected to the Klamath River for thousands of years, but that relationship was disrupted by the construction of dams more than 100 years ago.
    — oregonlive, 17 June 2023
  • Due to a renewable strike notice, the opening of the Eiffel Tower could be disrupted on February 21.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Strikingly, the Taliban’s foreign ministry has not tried as yet to disrupt the consular work of non-Taliban Embassies.
    — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2023
  • But more is needed — as the coronavirus pandemic showed by disrupting food supply lines or causing food prices to spike.
    — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
  • The risk of rushing back too quickly and potentially disrupting his long-term recovery is too great in both Buehler’s and the team’s estimation.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The efforts are an attempt to create economic pressure on these nations and disrupt global supply chains, as around 12% of global trade passes through the Red Sea.
    — TIME, 15 Jan. 2024
  • This thicker cream includes ceramides, which are fat cells that are naturally found in the skin and not only don’t disrupt the barrier, but help maintain it.
    — Tanya Edwards, Parents, 13 June 2023
  • Thoughts of food and the methods to eliminate it had become obsessive, dominating her day and disrupting her sleep.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Snoring and mild sleep apnea disrupt sleep cycles and depth of sleep in both children and adults, whereby what seems like a full night’s sleep may be functionally just half a night’s sleep if the sleep quality is poor.
    — Nina Shapiro, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • This year’s edition began with protesters disrupting the festival’s opening night to call for an end to Israel’s war in Gaza.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Hurricane Idalia and severe storms in early August disrupted air travel for thousands of passengers just in the last month.
    — Pete Muntean, CNN, 5 Sep. 2023

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