How to Use intact in a Sentence

intact

adjective

• The house survived the war intact.
• After 25 years, their friendship remained intact.
• The right-hander got out of the jam to keep the one-run lead intact.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2025
• Michigan stuffed the run on fourth down to keep the shutout intact.
  — Jared Ramsey, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2023
• This effort drops the tree but leaves some of the trunk intact.
  — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2025
• In contrast, the trees on the other side of the crater are still intact, even with green leaves.
  — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 21 Oct. 2023
• For onions, make sure the skin is intact and none of the inside is showing.
  — Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
• If the vessel is still intact, time is running out to reach the sub.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
• The Lowe’s is gone, but the ground at the construction site is still very much intact.
  — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• The stump of a dead tree, left intact, can be hollowed out for a planter or used as the base for a bird bath.
  — Monica Cardoza, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• No feathers were poking out of the fabric, all the seams were intact, and the down was not clumped and lumpy in the squares.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2024
• To keep that perfect record intact, LSU will have to find a way to slow down Clark.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 2 Apr. 2023
• To keep that perfect record intact, LSU will have to find a way to slow down Clark.
  — Doug Feinberg, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2023
• Gone is All-Ohioan Luke Danison, but the rest of the team returns intact.
  — Joe Magill, cleveland, 22 Aug. 2022
• The rest of the coaching staff is likely to remain intact.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• The goals have been big, but Sergei Bobrovsky has been stellar to keep the lead intact.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 20 May 2025
• The crust is thin, but just thick enough to keep the structural integrity of the slice intact.
  — Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• The challenge was to find one of these brownstones that were still intact.
  — Spike Lee, ELLE Decor, 16 Sep. 2022
• Leaving the core intact, cut 1-inch-thick slices from the center of the vegetable.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2022
• The Gators’ Adam Mihalek kicked a 40-yard field goal with 37 seconds left to keep the streak intact.
  — oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2022
• And will those allies be able to keep the response intact?
  — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2024
• But while the zip code may have changed, the spirit remains intact.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 9 June 2025
• Live sports are the glue keeping the pay TV bundle intact.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2022
• All of the fruits arrived intact except for one small piece of fruit that was cracked.
  — Molly Blanco, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2023
• But while keeping the skeleton intact, the goal is to take what’s in the comics and enrich and deepen it.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
• In other words, the drive to get things done remains intact.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
• Cut a thin slice from all four sides to square it off, leaving some skin intact.
  — Sally Pasley Vargas, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• Their homes are mostly intact, but husks of cars sit on some streets.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Aug. 2023
• During the last hour of the excavation, the researchers uncovered a fully intact side of the sarcophagus, which featured a carving of Hercules reclining on a lion skin with a cup in his hand.
  — Aurora Martínez, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025
• But with their political and judicial protection networks still intact, any criminal groups that are weakened by the president’s current strategy may simply be replaced by new ones.
  — Will Freeman, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2025