How to Use dissection in a Sentence

dissection

noun

• The aquarium added that one lucky school group will get the chance to be part of the dissection.
  — Amanda Jackson, CNN, 19 July 2021
• For the full lineup, check out the event page and a dissection of the events in this article.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• On some occasions, the king even took part in the dissections.
  — Maude Campbell, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2018
• The scientists caught some of the insects and brought them back to their lab for dissection.
  — Richard Pallardy, Science | AAAS, 12 May 2021
• Here are some clips from that recording, and Huke’s own dissection of each play.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2021
• McCrane had to stick his head through a hole in the set's dissection table for the entire scene.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2023
• Larson was 35, and the cause of death was an aortic dissection.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 May 2017
• The first sight of the 2021 A&M offense deserves dissection.
  — Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2021
• There was more dissection of the idea of chaos magic [the source of Wanda’s powers] in the [writers] room, too.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2021
• The CT scans and dissections revealed that the sand was not equally distributed in the goat guts.
  — Lakshmi Supriya, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2019
• The most common cause of stroke in the young is an injury to the artery in the neck called an arterial dissection.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2018
• For an in-depth dissection of the show, check out our review by The Times art critic Christopher Knight.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• The cause was an aortic dissection, a tear in the blood vessel leading from the heart, his son Henry said.
  — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• The cause was an aortic dissection, said a daughter, Lani Phillips.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2017
• The game is, like The Stanley Parable, a kind of formal dissection of its own medium.
  — Gabriel Winslow-Yost, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
• The songs on the EP seem to be a mix of self-analysis and dissections of relationships.
  — Katrina Nattress, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2018
• Carey moved down a few centimeters along the tree trunk and started a new dissection.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2020
• The team found 1,457 flowers, in both male and female phases, and cut many open with a dissection needle right on the spot.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 3 June 2021
• Trust that this gets sweet soon, shortly after the worm-dissection talk.
  — Vulture, 11 Aug. 2022
• The give-and-go with Weigel was a thing of beauty, a textbook dissection of the defense by longtime teammates.
  — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
• His dissection of the claim begins with a story The Courant published on Christmas Day 1955.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• But the reading is a dissection: of our fondest aims and beliefs, of all our watchwords.
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2021
• While fish require hours of careful dissection, tiny snails are easy to squish.
  — Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
• An hour into the dissection, Dykman is deep inside the fish’s gut.
  — Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
• Lost in the dissection of the passing attack's woeful outing was the Raiders' run game, which gained just 32 yards on 13 carries.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2017
• Levinson’s 105-minute film is a grim dissection of that two-week slice of time when an American hero fell.
  — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• The Lionesses will be hard-pressed to beat the French, who finally found their form in a 6-1 dissection of China.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
• The first legal dissection in Arkansas came in 1874, and the cadaver was once again a Black man.
  — Tom Dillard, Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2020
• While intact organs within a mummy are sometimes a sign of a careless burial process, the rest of the results of the virtual dissection suggest otherwise.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
• Coronary artery dissection occurs when one of the three layers of the coronary artery wall spontaneously detaches.
  — Vanessa Caceres, Verywell Health, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024