How to Use disperse in a Sentence

disperse

verb

• Police ordered the crowd to disperse.
• Danilecki grabbed the bat and told the group to disperse.
  — Andrew Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
• The crowd later dispersed and left Tamra and Jenn to have a heart-to-heart about their rocky friendship.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
• Over the following days, the colony was dispersed to other shelters around the city.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
• All seeds rely on some sort of vector to disperse seeds.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2023
• The spores are then dispersed to create new dog slime mold patches.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
• There are 10 fireplaces dispersed across the mansion’s 43 rooms.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2023
• In addition, the village will now disperse 4% of the PPRT funds every year to the library.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
• After a few minutes, the mourners got up and dispersed.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023
• Serbs tried to prevent them from taking over the premises, but the police fired tear gas to disperse them.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 29 May 2023
• Quickly pour it down the drain with the disposal on to allow the product to disperse on the sides of the drain, and then turn the disposal off.
  — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2023
• While some would be washed downstream into the Black Sea, much would be exposed and, as the mud dried, the pollution would be dispersed by the wind.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 11 June 2023
• When your windows are open at night, place a fan nearby to help disperse that air inwards.
  — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2023
• The Emeryville Police Department said the crowd had mostly dispersed by mid-evening.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Six weeks later the RSF dispersed the protesters with lethal force, killing more than 100.
  — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2023
• Outside the mosque’s gate, police dispersed crowds of young men with stun grenades and rubber bullets.
  — Isabel Debre and Fares Akram, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2023
• Young are fledged now, and the family groups are moving around and dispersing.
  — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• For very small children the amount of venom dispersed throughout the body is many times the concentration in an adult.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 3 May 2023
• The crowd had mostly dispersed, and the dealer, having counted out the winnings, placed a stack of chips in front of the only player who’d bet with the house.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2024
• All 60 patrons lined up for breakfast, used the restroom, and dispersed into the wet, gray morning.
  — Claire Stremple, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Then, as the heavy electron clusters dispersed, the lighter electrons would gather to fill in the thinner patches.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023
• They were later dispersed from embassy grounds with tear gas.
  — Caitlin Hu, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
• This means their seeds were most likely dispersed by barochory.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023
• The victim attempted to disperse the melee when Hardy attempted to punch him and missed.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 2 Mar. 2024
• Once the trigger is pressed, watch as the mop evenly disperses the solution from the spray nozzle.
  — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2023
• They were dispersed all over the city, said Swerdlow, but now many are returning to his property.
  — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024
• The space is set up like a church, the chairs like pews, but the singing is reverent, the sound is holy — metaphor disperses into actuality — the lyrics are a prayer.
  — Samuel Ernest, Longreads, 2 May 2023
• The packets move across a conveyor belt inside the aircraft to ensure they’re evenly dispersed, then fall out of a tube.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
• Storm clouds gather in the late afternoon but then disperse without shedding a drop.
  — Alissa J. Rubin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
• My spouse waters the trees by using a hose and spray nozzle, dispersing the water across the circle of wood chips and sets a timer for two minutes.
  — oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024