How to Use disintegrate in a Sentence

disintegrate

verb

• The laser can disintegrate most kinds of rock.
• The paper will disintegrate if it gets wet.
• Too long, and the acids that give wine some of its feel in the mouth may disintegrate.
  — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019
• Yes, even the places where crumbs seem to disintegrate into the seams.
  — Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping, 6 Mar. 2023
• The ship disintegrated, along with most of the pier and much of the surrounding site.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• Leave them outside in the open air for very long, and many will disintegrate.
  — Nsikan Akpan, National Geographic, 26 June 2020
• The fact that that has now disintegrated is just a tragedy.
  — Nihal Krishan, Washington Examiner, 23 Apr. 2020
• At some point, the bar begins to disintegrate and blur.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
• 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
• But the alcohol has to be potent enough to disintegrate the lipid layer and kill the virus.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2020
• 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
• The pair were extremely close, and his death was the point Hunter’s life began to disintegrate.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2021
• Split ends are the culprit that don’t allow hair to grow because the ends disintegrate on their own.
  — Tatjana Freund, Marie Claire, 6 May 2020
• Vision starts to glitch out and disintegrate, as do his kids.
  — Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2021
• The power of the thong disintegrated with the invention of the seamless brief.
  — Shira Feder, Vox, 5 June 2019
• Lunar eclipses are times when things in your life may leave, fall apart, or disintegrate.
  — Emily Simone, Allure, 15 July 2019
• 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
• In the wake of Rob’s death, Dr. Ashton had a decision to make: disintegrate into a ball of anger and grief or step into the light of hope and love.
  — Womansday.com Staff, Woman's Day, 25 Aug. 2019
• There’s a point at which the Mandalorian disintegrates a couple of Jawas right off the bat, and nothing is made of it.
  — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 11 Jan. 2020
• 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
• The hood of the vehicle was largely disintegrated, the windows blown out and the doors blackened.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
• 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
• By the time they were grilled hard enough to hold the load without disintegrating, the doughnuts just became greasy hobo blankets.
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• In fact, a snowflake's tendency to disintegrate was one of the biggest challenges Myhrvold had to overcome with this project.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2021
• Lewis Howes recalled afterward that he was washed overboard, but for the rest of us, the boat simply disintegrated beneath our feet.
  — Orval C. Johnson, Outdoor Life, 31 Oct. 2024
• This keeps the goat cheese from muddying the salad and the orange segments from disintegrating, creating a clean-looking, beautifully colorful salad.
  — Julia Levy, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024