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
• Walter would choose between acquiring a money-losing Lakers channel or keeping intact the two Charter deals that pay the Dodgers and Lakers more than $500 million combined each year.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
• Residents in the wing that stayed intact managed to get out but were not allowed to return to their homes, and the rest of the building, determined to be unstable, was demolished 10 days later as a hurricane threatened South Florida.
  — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 24 June 2025