How to Use deconstruction in a Sentence

deconstruction

noun
  • This was the year that deconstruction and modernism were born.
    — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Then came the deconstruction of the 7 million square feet of the old plant.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The work is in many ways a deconstruction and then remaking of all these films.
    — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Then, the spokes and hub were removed from the rim, and hub deconstruction began.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The deconstruction phase is over.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • This public deconstruction comes at a price.
    — H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The style derives from the project loosely known as deconstruction.
    — James Campbell, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2021
  • That looks like some deconstruction work in order to get to the construction.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz, 4 June 2020
  • And this isn’t to say that Manhunt doesn’t dabble in deconstruction.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
  • There’s a police station, a possession, and then a deconstruction of the very genre.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 11 June 2024
  • There’s a police station, a possession, and then a deconstruction of the very genre.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 11 June 2024
  • Scream is both an excellent deconstruction of the slasher genre and a great slasher movie in and of itself.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The state brought in a deconstruction crew surrounded by a heavy police presence to strap the statue to a crane.
    — NBC News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Fans have their deconstructions.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 June 2026
  • To have realized the song would bear this kind of operatic deconstruction had been a stroke of artistry.
    — John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQ, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Season 2, for all its plotting woes, engaged in a thorough deconstruction of its own hero.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2021
  • For the last few months, the interior has been stripped down and prepared for final deconstruction.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2019
  • Summer was both the epitome and a deconstruction of the manic pixie dream girl.
    — Ashley Shannon Wu, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2022
  • This brand of idiom deconstruction and crisp sound became a hallmark of Jones’ work from this point forward.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Without the voices of the dispossessed, how can there be deconstruction?
    — Audrey Clare Farley, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2022
  • That kind of deconstruction of art and artifice keeps the show’s concept moving forward.
    — Mark Lowry, star-telegram, 13 July 2017
  • To me, the show feels a lot like a challenge to or deconstruction of the traditional teen melodrama.
    — Matt Brennan, latimes.com, 30 June 2019
  • To me, the show feels a lot like a challenge to or deconstruction of the traditional teen melodrama.
    — Matt Brennan, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2019
  • The panel members proceed to do their usual deconstruction of the song with a real-time jam session.
    — Robbie Daw, Billboard, 3 July 2019
  • With the highest poverty rates in the nation, these states also have the most to lose from the deconstruction of government.
    — William J. Barber, NBC News, 17 May 2017
  • The beauty industry has a lot to answer for in the deconstruction of women’s bodies too.
    — Chloe Laws, Allure, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Seibert said both projects would provide enough space for the deconstruction of Crosley Tower.
    — Segann March, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The stakes are human as opposed to being a deconstruction of a genre or a satire, which is a little bit what Prada is.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • But this is actually a sort of deconstruction of the breast, and then a reconstruction.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 18 Jan. 2018
  • It was determined the tower could not be salvaged, which led to its deconstruction and removal from the skyline of the mansion.
    — Claudia Williams, Architectural Digest, 26 July 2024

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