How to Use dissociate in a Sentence

dissociate

verb

• The director has tried to dissociate himself from his earlier films.
• Why is the organization choosing to dissociate itself from its founder?
• According to Megan, that friend used it to dissociate from fear in order to jump off the roof of their house.
  — Delilah Friedler, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2023
• Delle, as Lisa, spent so much time dissociating while her therapist watched and tried to help.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025
• Anything to dissociate, to repress the dark memories that woke him at night.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
• The droplets can dissociate into hydrogen and oxygen ions, causing charges to build up near the top.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 17 Feb. 2020
• Do not dissociate the actual craft from the act of leadership.
  — Tracey Lien, The Seattle Times, 28 May 2017
• For the most part, she's learned to dissociate from weird internet behavior.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2022
• Almost like we’ve been given a button to dissociate, or something.
  — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2023
• Since then, even more Americans have chosen to dissociate from the two parties.
  — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2019
• To reinhabit that mind-set, Polley had to pull back—almost to dissociate.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• This substance dissociates in water to produce the chloronitramide anion.
  — Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 22 Nov. 2024
• Time to dissociate under a blanket.
  — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 6 Feb. 2026
• My only escape was to dissociate and pretend the abuse was not really happening.
  — Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• Some studies suggest people may seek out social media to dissociate—mindlessly scrolling purely to give their brain a break.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2026
• The select board also tried to dissociate itself from the declaration.
  — Leo Mirani, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
• The clan of six is both close-knit and dissociated by the privacy of their individual obsessions.
  — Lisa Russ Spaar, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
• His cheek bone was completely shattered in multiple pieces and completely dissociated from the skull.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 1 June 2017
• Candace has that ability to compartmentalize and sort of dissociate from the things that are bothering her.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
• There was crying, complaining, dissociating and even laughing on those couches.
  — Wendy C. Ortiz, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
• What’s unprecedented about this crisis is the fact that our ability and desire to dissociate from our painful reality may have hurt our response to it.
  — Frank Shyong Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2020
• When harm happens on the other side of this division, the impulse to dissociate privileges one’s own innocence over the needs of those most impacted.
  — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
• After serving her time for her part in the crime, Ames attempted to legally change her last name to dissociate herself from the Bing Ring.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2022
• In the weeks leading up to the murder, the teenager began to withdraw and dissociate from reality, Gunsberg said.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• But they are often dissociated from their emotions, struggling with indecision, or living in a constant state of low-level overwhelm.
  — Ashleigh N. Deluca, Parents, 4 Aug. 2025
• These star clusters typically live only a short while, then dissociate, and the stars get randomly distributed throughout the galaxy.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• Kumar was given a 10-year show cause penalty and was dissociated from Missouri athletics.
  — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 26 Nov. 2019
• In addition to its work on child protection, Rozan teaches young men to dissociate violence with masculinity.
  — Hasan Ali, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2025
• But the hotel's new owners, Euro Capital Properties, are in no rush to dissociate from its sordid past.
  — Bridget Mallon, ELLE Decor, 10 July 2015
• Miller was severely abused as a child by his mother and began to dissociate as a coping mechanism, his attorney Denise Dees said in her opening statement.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2022