How to Use intact in a Sentence

intact

adjective
  • The house survived the war intact.
  • After 25 years, their friendship remained intact.
  • Eight bolts held his right arm intact.
    Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • My body was weak, but my soul was intact.
    Lori Brock, Sun Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Make sure screens and door sweeps are intact.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Tilt the pot and slide the plant (root ball intact) out of the pot.
    Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 7 July 2026
  • Yet the ceasefire is said to be intact.
    Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
  • Her hull was mostly intact, but no one was found.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Whole wheat pasta keeps the bran and germ intact.
    Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 18 May 2026
  • This had been a restaurant with a kitchen intact.
    Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
  • One intact trailer lay flipped on its roof near the tree line.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • This effort drops the tree but leaves some of the trunk intact.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Not all grocers sell turnips with their greens intact.
    Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Nvidia says its growth story is very much still intact.
    Allie Canal, NBC news, 26 Feb. 2026
  • His truck was left damaged, but his house is intact.
    Noel Brennan, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • Michigan stuffed the run on fourth down to keep the shutout intact.
    Jared Ramsey, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Their homes are mostly intact, but husks of cars sit on some streets.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The right-hander got out of the jam to keep the one-run lead intact.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2025
  • That balance has to stay intact.
    MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
  • As long as that's rising and the stock is above it, the trend is intact.
    Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Raw ground beef stored over intact beef in glass door reach in cooler in kitchen.
    Staff Reports, Florida Times-Union, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Cut a thin slice from all four sides to square it off, leaving some skin intact.
    Sally Pasley Vargas, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Neither of them emerged quite intact.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Her couture team stayed intact.
    Stephan Rabimov, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • If the vessel is still intact, time is running out to reach the sub.
    Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
  • Cerebras leaves the wafer intact.
    Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • Nobody doubts the big stores will make it through bad weather intact.
    oregonlive, 22 Dec. 2022
  • His body has barely decayed, and his hair and teeth are still intact.
    Raquel Reichard, Refinery29, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The plane’s fuselage was intact.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The challenge was to find one of these brownstones that were still intact.
    Spike Lee, ELLE Decor, 16 Sep. 2022

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