How to Use disintegrate in a Sentence

disintegrate

verb
  • The laser can disintegrate most kinds of rock.
  • The paper will disintegrate if it gets wet.
  • Too long, and the acids that give wine some of its feel in the mouth may disintegrate.
    — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019
  • And my leg began to disintegrate in some way around the kneecap area.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 24 May 2025
  • Leave them outside in the open air for very long, and many will disintegrate.
    — Nsikan Akpan, National Geographic, 26 June 2020
  • Soft tofu will disintegrate in the pan, so steer clear of that.
    — Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Yes, even the places where crumbs seem to disintegrate into the seams.
    — Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Vision starts to glitch out and disintegrate, as do his kids.
    — Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Lunar eclipses are times when things in your life may leave, fall apart, or disintegrate.
    — Emily Simone, Allure, 15 July 2019
  • From there, things disintegrated as the two went back and forth.
    — Emily Goodin, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Substantial, but not so much so that the bun will disintegrate from rivers of juice.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 July 2025
  • Substantial, but not so much so that the bun disintegrates from rivers of juice.
    — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 19 July 2017
  • The flow ran off his bare chest and dripped down toward disintegrating shoes.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Note that the sponge will disintegrate with use, just like a pencil eraser.
    — Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 May 2026
  • Bigger comets, which are heavier, don’t tend to disintegrate as they near the sun.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
  • On one side, a full skeleton still stained brown and black from disintegrating flesh is laid out on a sheet.
    — Benjamin Preston, Fortune, 24 July 2017
  • Toward the end of the movie, Bob’s house of shame disintegrates.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
  • Split ends are the culprit that don’t allow hair to grow because the ends disintegrate on their own.
    — Tatjana Freund, Marie Claire, 6 May 2020
  • The ship disintegrated, along with most of the pier and much of the surrounding site.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • The Void is able to disintegrate victims in a puff of shadow.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 2 May 2025
  • Six weeks after the charges were filed, the case disintegrated.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2026
  • The pair were belly deep in the rapids by that point, while the nest continued to disintegrate around them.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Hers is prose in which sentences judder and disintegrate and run over each other.
    — Book Marks august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Over the years, the roof disintegrated and many of the windows are broken.
    — Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Nov. 2025
  • From there, the video disintegrates into a blur of cursing and shouting.
    — Brian Chasnoff, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2018
  • But the alcohol has to be potent enough to disintegrate the lipid layer and kill the virus.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2020
  • If the ice shelf were to continue to disintegrate, this ice might flow more rapidly into the sea.
    — Ben Estes, NOLA.com, 5 July 2017
  • The very flying machine that now seemed destined to disintegrate in midair with us and the little girl.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
  • And with them, a way of life that has defined much of the state for more than a century and a half is disintegrating.
    — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The top courses of the concrete block had disintegrated, and were nothing more than sand and small stones.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025

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