How to Use disprove in a Sentence

disprove

verb
  • Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe disproved any lingering notions that the earth is flat.
  • The book, which will be published in 2021 by Crown, sets out to disprove that.
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2020
  • To date, much of Noland’s account has yet to be proved, or disproved.
    Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The most salacious rumor to spring forth from the Pump Rules fandom should be one of the more easy to disprove.
    Vulture, 6 June 2023
  • The White House says the records disprove the allegations.
    NBC News, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Kroll said, adding that Ecosia has data to disprove this.
    Alison Griswold, Quartz, 29 Nov. 2019
  • The war’s course to date has disproved all these predictions.
    Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
  • Thankfully, that line was disproved over the course of the first issue last month.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • On the front page is a close-up of the Duchess’s fingers with a box drawn around them, which clearly disproves the claim the tabloid trying to make.
    Amanda Arnold, The Cut, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The British press also worked hard to disprove Andrew’s claims.
    Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Now, a body of evidence has piled up that disproves claims about LK-99.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2023
  • But the burden is not on you to disprove the allegations made.
    Alvin Chang, Vox, 28 Sep. 2018
  • The most moving thing about Santos’s lies is how many of them could be disproved in seconds.
    Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review of Books, 1 Feb. 2024
  • And the fact that, long after this notion has been disproved, the belief persists.
    Kristen Bellstrom, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The fact that America has been at war in Afghanistan for almost three times as long does not disprove that.
    The Economist, 17 Apr. 2021
  • The police kept finding one more step and one more step that would disprove his story.
    CBS News, 29 Jan. 2022
  • The defense did not have evidence to disprove this claim, Geiger said.
    Marilyn Icsman, Cincinnati.com, 14 June 2018
  • We have been put in the position of trying to disprove things that didn’t happen.
    Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2021
  • But any pressure to disprove the naysayers isn’t felt within the UAPB locker room.
    Arkansas Online, 21 July 2022
  • Rohrabacher wanted to disprove claims that Russia was involved in the DNC hacks and leaks.
    Ellen Nakashimaand William Booth, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Is the burden of proving this on Dr. Ford, or is the burden of disproving this on Judge Kavanaugh?
    Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Photos from Reuters and Getty Images — as well as the full context of the video — disprove the notion that Harris staged the scene.
    Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY, 25 May 2021
  • The scientist isn’t out to prove something is right but to disprove something.
    Andy Gole, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • But the result seems to disprove the idea that not seeing competitors can slow a runner down.
    David R. Munro, The Conversation, 21 July 2021
  • The team has denied the charges and sent the F.T.C. 102 pages of support documents to disprove the allegations.
    Jenny Vrentas, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The book disproves the outsider's stereotype that the authentic Nashville drink is a White Claw or a shot of Fireball.
    Nate Rau, Axios, 11 Oct. 2024
  • That would mean that Meta and OnlyFans would have to share evidence to disprove the claim, which as of yet, neither has.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2022
  • It was easily disproved, though, since, no, there is no such account in the best-selling book.
    Allen Salkin, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024
  • Trump quickly went on defense and in the process repeated some false or misleading claims that have been long disproved or debunked.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Explorers subsequently disproved that judgment with a vengeance, and the world-is-flat theory was blasted to smithereens.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2024

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