How to Use disintegrate in a Sentence

disintegrate

verb
Definition of disintegratenext
Synonyms for disintegratenext
  • The laser can disintegrate most kinds of rock.
  • The paper will disintegrate if it gets wet.
  • Yes, even the places where crumbs seem to disintegrate into the seams.
    — Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The bristles are glued to the base, and water and detergent can cause the glue to disintegrate and the bristles to come loose and shed.
    — Kate Sullivan, Kristi Kellogg, Allure, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Cracked ice cubes that disintegrate in your palm are a no-go, as is crushed ice for Christmas.
    — Louise Dixon, Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Mostly this is the fault of the disintegrating barley, humblest of grains, though the beans (kidney) don’t help.
    — Benjamin Dubow, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Some have predicted the ship could vanish in a matter of decades as holes yawn in the hull and sections disintegrate.
    — Ben Finley and Holly Ramer, ajc, 20 June 2023
  • The second reason is that our bodies disintegrate into the earth, and a pine box allows for that.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022
  • But something, maybe a sliver of copper off the bullet casing since coins don’t disintegrate, came back and hit him in the eye.
    — Amanda Walker, al, 5 Mar. 2022
  • For 70 days the researchers watched the seabass bloat, shed their flesh and disintegrate into piles of bones while the probes monitored the body parts’ changing chemistry.
    — Sasha Warren, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The core disintegrated the next season with poor play, injuries and a lack of skilled role players.
    — Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2023
  • West Virginia has finished in the top-25 just twice in 11 seasons since the Big East disintegrated.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
  • Perhaps, the considered, early humans had cooked the fish over low heat, which would’ve preserved the teeth but caused the bones to disintegrate over time.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Now, after 49 years in public life, all of it is at risk of disintegrating.
    — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • In those years, as the outside world disintegrated, Ypi found refuge in reading.
    — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Users tend to disintegrate -- their teeth dissolving from the toxic smoke and their voices fading to a squawk.
    — Kyung Lah, Anna-Maja Rappard and Rachel Clarke, CNN, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Parts of the broom disintegrate on impact, bits of it flying scattershot through the air and onto the audience.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024
  • In the third act, the unseen characters start to intrude onto the stage, and the ostensible fourth wall disintegrates in a coup de théâtre.
    — Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Toxic teams crumble and disintegrate under the weight of even a whisper.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • Should the Thwaites Glacier disintegrate, global sea level would rise by about two feet.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The wooden sculpture has disintegrated, and all that remains is a weathered plaque in front of a barren brick base.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The ClearSpace-1 spacecraft will bring it down into the atmosphere, where both will disintegrate.
    — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Most of the homes are made out of natural elements that can then disintegrate back into the forest.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Most disintegrate in the atmosphere or fall to the ground as harmless meteorites, though.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Nov. 2021
  • However, in helping Viktor, Ben starts to disintegrate, and is forced to cross over to the afterlife.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2022
  • The band that gave the world Disintegration is the band that will never, ever disintegrate.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2023
  • But what if Prigozhin manages to disintegrate the Russian army?
    — Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2023
  • The models at the show walked around more ephemeral works of art: confetti cubes created by the artist Lara Favaretto, which disintegrated on the runway as the show went on.
    — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Haines asked of the line's dissolving tablets that disintegrate in toilet water.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 5 May 2023
  • Hey, even when his shoulder was disintegrating last season, the guy could still pitch, with a 2.23 ERA in the last two months of the regular season before his arm collapsed in the playoffs.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024

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