How to Use disintegration in a Sentence

disintegration

noun

• At times, the Currents masthead has seemed on the cusp of disintegration.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
• But its goals fall well short of hastening the disintegration of the West or establishing an antidemocratic order.
  — Rush Doshi, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2024
• That disintegration would, in turn, destabilize much of the rest of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
• On the peninsula, that ice loss has come in large measure from the disintegration of giant ice shelves.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2013
• The two remaining schools can’t reverse the disintegration of the Pac-12.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
• That the disintegration of his role with the royal family was a long time coming.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2023
• There should be a sense of wounding loss in the disintegration — the self-destruction, even — of their small, frail family.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 May 2024
• These bring a welcome human lens to the story of the empire’s disintegration.
  — Vanessa H. Larson, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
• But the experiment did not show him the moment of disintegration—only what led up to it.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 July 2012
• That is why his later disintegration is so sad, as well as appalling.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 May 2024
• Living in any one city too long results in a feeling of disintegration.
  — WIRED, 30 Aug. 2022
• But there is not really a strong correlation between the distance to the sun and the kind of disintegration events that occur.
  — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• Take note of signs of disintegration on the bottom of the tank, especially any rusting or leaking.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Nov. 2023
• Take note of signs of disintegration on the bottom of the tank, especially any leaking or rusting.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Feb. 2022
• The window for tourists to see the wreckage in its current state is believed to be closing due to rapid disintegration of the ship’s frame as a result of rust and bacteria breaking it down.
  — Anna Gordon, Time, 19 June 2023
• And high-level engagements between the world’s two largest economies, the United States and China, aim to reduce the risks of further disintegration.
  — Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• This passage, and others in the same vein, help illustrate that from the moment they are no longer run by Europeans, African cities are bound for disintegration.
  — Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2022
• And then there was the disintegration of the whole social dynamic of our communities.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2021
• The Stars are only in this situation because of a Vegas disintegration on Sunday night against the Sharks.
  — Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2022
• The sudden disintegration of Finnair’s business model is part of the wide-ranging economic upheaval that the war in Ukraine is causing for businesses around the globe.
  — Patricia Cohen Juho Kuva, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• The disintegration of the Pac-12 has been an entirely avoidable tragedy brought on by the craven machinations of people who, it can only be assumed, do not love college sports very much at all.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2023
• But the ballpark’s slow disintegration is evident in the layers of chicken wire and chain link erected to keep people out of its most dangerous spots.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 20 Nov. 2020
• Its speed combined with the clash of air results in disintegration, with some of the bigger particles burning up into fireballs!
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2022
• What if, even if he is put down, destabilization and disintegration results, in some form, to some degree, anyway?
  — Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2023
• Before the Mafia’s disintegration, a boss was obliged to help a fallen or legally entangled soldier.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2023
• Will Charles oversee the final disintegration of this remnant of empire?
  — Kojo Koram, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2022
• For Kamyar, or so his mother suspected, the disintegration of his family would mean the collapse of his entire world.
  — Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
• The question today is whether the gyre of slaughter can be broken, a third intifada averted and something new emerge from the West Bank’s disintegration and Israel’s invasion of Gaza.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• In the late twentieth century, however, Ethiopia again teetered at the edge of disintegration.
  — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2024
• Though Russia has long been a crucial ally for the isolated North, relations between the two countries have at times grown tense since the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024