How to Use dispersal in a Sentence

dispersal

noun

• The follow up is the dispersal of all those people back across the globe.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 July 2021
• New research shows that tamarins play a huge role in seed dispersal.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2021
• He was bought by WinStar Farm in a dispersal sale and moved to Baffert’s barn.
  — John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
• But eventually, the host has to die; the point is to keep the host alive long enough to reach the best spots for maximum dispersal of new spores.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2023
• As a reminder, members of the media are also to obey the dispersal orders.
  — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2021
• The point of this dispersal is not simply to hunker down and wait for an onslaught, but also to give China a taste of its own medicine.
  — The Economist, 7 Mar. 2021
• Cumberland worked the loader, piling the chips into the spreader trucks for dispersal around the farms.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• Scientists call this sort of movement dispersal, and track the progress of trees over eons through the study of fossils that ancient forests have left behind.
  — Heller McAlpin, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
• Todd parked her cruiser on the corner of Lakeside and West 3rd Street and shouted the dispersal order through her megaphone.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2020
• Josephs and his boyfriend had left the protest area, and as two visitors from out of town, weren’t aware that the Mark Spencer Hotel was just within the boundaries of the dispersal area, Weingart said.
  — oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2021
• For example, some of the volatile compounds attract insects that clearly help with the dispersal of their spores.
  — Federico Kukso, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
• Their disappearance limits seed dispersal and the spread of trees around the forest.
  — Emily Harwitz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
• When one species relies on another for such dispersal, it's known as phoresy.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 June 2023
• There is nothing like a gull for a really rapid dispersal of the virus and really long distances.
  — New York Times, 17 June 2022
• The point is emphasized at the Met by the dispersal of individual pieces in two cavernous rooms.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
• Around the same time the footage was recorded, Israeli police used tear gas and crowd dispersal methods to clamp down on violent clashes near the scene of the attack.
  — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2021
• The artist was referring not only to the literal act of walking around New York City but also the fact that the dispersal of coins was the least cerebral part of the endeavor.
  — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2020
• But this year some local comic book shops are doing more than the usual dispersal of titles and artist signings.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2021
• At the same time, the brutal, racist realities that fueled the Afro-Atlantic dispersal is never far from view.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 23 June 2023
• Much of the trees’ cultivation and dispersal there have been achieved by humans, who planted a handful of them throughout the islands.
  — Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
• Is this a mechanism to attract fish to eat them and thereby aid their dispersal into new habitats?
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• Next, the researchers used software to test different scenarios that might have led to the current DNA dispersal.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 29 Mar. 2021
• The dispersal of nuclear know-how in recent decades has led many observers to pine for the relative stability of the Cold War.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2021
• So the researchers introduced the effect of seed dispersal into their models, which could be by wind and by birds and other creatures.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
• Bonobos feed on fruits and are considered to play an important role in seed dispersal in the Congo River Basin.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2021
• Breaking up the giants would inevitably lead to some dispersal of wealth and prosperity and dynamism around the country.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 17 Mar. 2021
• The police issued a dispersal order to empty the room, a tactic usually served for handling large street protests.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
• Today, antelope squirrels and other rodents are the Joshua tree’s main agents of seed dispersal.
  — Louis Sahagúnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
• Cute looks aside, the shy species serves as an important agent of seed dispersal, helping regenerate forests.
  — Charukesi Ramadurai, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2022
• For one thing, the dispersal of this money still will not allow poorer countries to secure vaccines—because there aren’t many vaccines to buy, at the moment.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 19 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024