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
  • 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
  • Perhaps, the considered, early humans had cooked the fish over low heat, which would’ve preserved the teeth but caused the bones to disintegrate over time.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Now, after 49 years in public life, all of it is at risk of disintegrating.
    Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Every year, Earth passes through these debris trails, which allows the bits to collide with our atmosphere and disintegrate to create fiery and colorful streaks in the sky.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2024

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