How to Use disabuse in a Sentence

disabuse

verb

• And that Jann doesn't go out of his way to disabuse people of that.
  — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2017
• The goal of the book is to disabuse people of this intuition.
  — Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
• But the events of the book disabuse Marianne of this way of thinking.
  — Matt Thompson, The Atlantic, 18 July 2017
• Just one term on the City Council was enough to disabuse her of that notion.
  — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2022
• Tommy did his best to disabuse the man of these notions.
  — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 10 Oct. 2020
• Turner is one of the first students Elwood meets at Nickel, and the first to try to disabuse him of his ideals.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 18 July 2019
• First, let’s disabuse ourselves of the bugaboo of the mass exit of teachers.
  — Talia Milgrom-Elcott, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• Both times, I was disabused of any notion that Paris is the most romantic city on earth.
  — Mary Novaria, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2017
• Paul’s memoir will disabuse you of any notions about the glamour of being an artist’s muse.
  — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2020
• The last week should disabuse anybody of this assumption.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2017
• Part of Carlile’s contribution, coming aboard as a kind of coach, was to disabuse her of the idea that her songs should be that malleable.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
• The flaming turd that is Cassidy-Graham should disabuse us all of that notion.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 26 Sep. 2017
• Nothing could be farther from the truth, and a closer look at data can help disabuse us of this notion.
  — Shahid Jameel, Quartz, 14 July 2021
• The first three months of the Trump administration have done nothing to disabuse them of this belief.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 15 May 2017
• These leaders have now been clearly disabused of that logic.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 27 June 2018
• Vineyard move should disabuse people of the idea that libs are capable of feeling hypocrisy.
  — Fox News, 18 Sep. 2022
• Unlike Don Quixote charging at windmills the boy does not need to be disabused of a generous world vision.
  — Natalie Serber, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2017
• Progress across these areas would also disabuse the Chinese of the idea that the U.S. is in decline and lacks the will and ability to stand up to a dynamic new power.
  — Richard N. Haass, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
• The aim of the United States is to disabuse them of such thinking, while speaking ever more softly with an ever-bigger stick.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 25 July 2017
• The filing uses Musk’s tweets to disabuse his claim that the deal was void because the company had misled him on the volume of bot traffic on the platform.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
• If his son regarded your leaving as a personal rejection, Dan may be able to disabuse him of that idea and patch things up.
  — Abigail Van Buren, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
• But a visit to Perimeter Mall in Dunwoody on Monday disabused me of the notion that it’s mostly white men going maskless.
  — Bill Torpy, ajc, 27 May 2020
• The federation’s decisions on the two events on Monday will do little to disabuse them of that belief.
  — Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2018
• Despite the more worldly Kolyan’s roughhousing attempts to disabuse him of the notion, Lyoshka, unversed in the ways of the internet and its many lies, thinks that the girl on-screen can hear and see him.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 14 Jan. 2022
• But anyone still holding to that Victorian notion should have been disabused of it last week.
  — Libby Locke, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2018
• A real job in a real company in the real world will soon disabuse even the most talented youth of his preciousness.
  — Ana Veciana-Suarez, miamiherald, 27 July 2017
• Five wars with Israel thoroughly disabused them of that notion.
  — Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
• His first display, at Arsenal last week, did little to disabuse anyone of that notion.
  — New York Times, 28 Aug. 2021
• Sansa freed herself from a bunch of male abusers, got schooled in realpolitik and became an able and sure-handed leader, disabused of the naïve courtly fantasies that used to seduce her.
  — Anna Silman, The Cut, 28 Aug. 2017
• This week should disabuse climate experts of that idea, Samaras said, and reveal that AC is a worthy form of climate adaptation.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 29 June 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024