How to Use disband in a Sentence

disband

verb
  • They've decided to disband the club.
  • The members of the organization have decided to disband.
  • The task force is scheduled to disband in March.
    — Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The task force was disbanded after just two months.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • There is no reason to think that when Brexit is over the tribes will disband.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2019
  • Tae-hee’s band disbanded, leaving him with a mountain of debt.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
  • But by 1940, the team seemed to have disbanded.
    — Sarah Dewberry, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The program was disbanded this fall.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The same court later ordered the party to disband.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
  • There are 10 teams and no talk of any of them disbanding after this season.
    — Richard Obert, azcentral, 14 June 2019
  • The four active tank brigades, each with up to 100 tanks, are likely to disband.
    — David Axe, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • At first, the top guideline listed on the page said that the group would disband after the election.
    — Brooke Henderson, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2020
  • And once the dog is found, the Search Party network disbands.
    — Mike Feibus, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • That shadowy outfit disbanded last year in the wake of scandal.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2024
  • By 1998, the group had disbanded.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The group that wrote the standards disbanded and did not stick around to answer questions (of which there were many).
    — Peter Greene, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Volunteering at my daughter’s school was a thing of the past and the mom groups had long disbanded.
    — Tara Ellison, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Order 2 disbanded the Iraqi army but did not disarm it.
    — Farah N. Jan, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Like Minds was on track for that before the brewery disbanded early this year.
    — Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2018
  • But the Six failed to catch on with listeners in either camp, and soon disbanded.
    — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
  • This does not seem to indicate that Bungie would be fully disbanded, at least not yet.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The unit was disbanded, and the warehouse was closed in late September.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Devo hasn’t disbanded, but the new wave rockers out of Akron, Ohio, no longer tour.
    — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
  • With a unanimous vote, the council passed the first reading of an ordinance to disband the board.
    — Priscella Vega, Daily Pilot, 16 July 2019
  • Some called for the entire Parliament to disband to make way for a younger leadership.
    — Krishan Francis, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2022
  • All of a sudden people start getting shot and that group disbanded pretty quickly.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 30 Dec. 2025
  • After the war, these programs were largely disbanded.
    — Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The remaining trio carried on briefly before disbanding for good a year later.
    — Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
  • The mayor is on the right side in refusing to disband the police department and wants to work with the chief to transform it.
    — Sondra Samuels and Don Samuels, Star Tribune, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Formed as a temporary act, they are expected to disband at the end of 2018.
    — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 31 May 2018

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