How to Use deconstruct in a Sentence

deconstruct

verb

• Joey was deconstructed to be a guy who couldn’t get a job, couldn’t ask a girl out.
  — Jack Dunn, Variety, 13 Mar. 2025
• On her podcast, Grant deconstructs an episode of a show with her guest.
  — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
• The shoes are the brand’s softest and most deconstructed flat.
  — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 8 June 2026
• Before it’s deconstructed, the teens get to take it for a spin around a parking lot.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2023
• This wasn’t the only scene for which An was willing to deconstruct some shoes.
  — Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 12 Sep. 2020
• The cabins were far from the first buildings the artist has deconstructed.
  — Fred A. Bernstein, WSJ, 24 July 2017
• Smart people deconstructed his words point by point, and there are a lot of smart people out there these days.
  — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 17 Sep. 2019
• Or, in the case of the night’s best performance, deconstruct the whole awards show context.
  — Richard Trapunski, Billboard, 20 Sep. 2023
• He’s built a world based around himself that fans have been able to deconstruct and buy into for almost three decades.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 23 July 2024
• Here, in addition to so much else, the very act of watching a movie is deconstructed.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
• The goal is to make each box smaller and smaller, to really deconstruct the pieces.
  — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 3 July 2024
• In the months since, Wardle has worked on and off to deconstruct that emoji mystery.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 10 July 2018
• As a result, the artist aims to deconstruct ideas of beauty and gender stereotypes.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• The monument was deconstructed that year because of rot at the pedestal's base.
  — NOLA.com, 19 May 2017
• An entire side of the building was deconstructed to help a crew get the vehicle up that high.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 26 May 2023
• Well, the online world went mad trying to deconstruct, trying to work out who knew who and who was [doing what].
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
• Such authors are always, in their work, deconstructing stable ideas of the self.
  — Oscar Schwartz, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2024
• The berms were largely intact, not deconstructed, as ordered by the court.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
• But the costs of deconstructing a building can be double that of simply razing it.
  — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2020
• There are evil forces that seek to deconstruct the incremental progress made by people of color.
  — Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
• Cones are places along the different slits in the floor and production begins to deconstruct the stage.
  — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
• Your film deconstructs the beauty myth or the Cinderella myth.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2025
• Black taffeta, deconstructed, with cutouts and layers that fell in a way that felt slightly wrong but also very right.
  — Jennifer Noyes, Air Mail, 14 Mar. 2026
• Cyrus crafts songs that linger without losing their way, deconstructing and rebuilding the idea of how pop songs should be shaped.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 30 May 2025
• Instead find a nice sandwich or salad to eat instead of asking the waiter to deconstruct the dish.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 24 Mar. 2018
• The spokesperson noted that the city has in the past had to deconstruct parts of the bridge to accommodate large vessels.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2022
• Large portions of the planes have to be deconstructed to check on corrosion and other aspects.
  — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2024
• These pieces are then deconstructed, redesigned, and sold back to the Global North.
  — Ezreen Benissan, Essence, 7 July 2025
• When the deer head is deconstructed, Wilson said everything waits in place.
  — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Dec. 2025
• The Quick-fire challenge was all about deconstructing the Denver omelet.
  — Luis Miguel Echegaray, SI.com, 22 Dec. 2017