How to Use disintegration in a Sentence

disintegration

noun
  • That is why his later disintegration is so sad, as well as appalling.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 May 2024
  • And the disintegration of a true morality — what is your true north?
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2024
  • This could have been an early sign of disintegration, but since then, the comet is still brightening.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Living in any one city too long results in a feeling of disintegration.
    — WIRED, 30 Aug. 2022
  • There were reasons aplenty for the disintegration of their form.
    — Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 28 May 2026
  • On the peninsula, that ice loss has come in large measure from the disintegration of giant ice shelves.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2013
  • That the disintegration of his role with the royal family was a long time coming.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2023
  • At times, the Currents masthead has seemed on the cusp of disintegration.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • But to me, there’s forces of disintegration and integration at all times.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • But the experiment did not show him the moment of disintegration—only what led up to it.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 July 2012
  • These bring a welcome human lens to the story of the empire’s disintegration.
    — Vanessa H. Larson, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
  • There should be a sense of wounding loss in the disintegration — the self-destruction, even — of their small, frail family.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 May 2024
  • On and on the section goes, a whirling fifty-page stretch of disorientation and disintegration.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The iceberg could be between days and weeks from disintegration, scientists say.
    — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Take note of signs of disintegration on the bottom of the tank, especially any leaking or rusting.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Take note of signs of disintegration on the bottom of the tank, especially any rusting or leaking.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Nov. 2023
  • What if, even if he is put down, destabilization and disintegration results, in some form, to some degree, anyway?
    — Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2023
  • But this past year, as international assistance was slashed, she's seen the disintegration of much of what she's built.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Maybe birth rates would rebound, after a disaster or disintegration that staggers us.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • And then there was the disintegration of the whole social dynamic of our communities.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2021
  • But there is not really a strong correlation between the distance to the sun and the kind of disintegration events that occur.
    — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Will Charles oversee the final disintegration of this remnant of empire?
    — Kojo Koram, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The disintegration of Syria will be worse, for Syrians and for the region.
    — Sam Heller, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Its speed combined with the clash of air results in disintegration, with some of the bigger particles burning up into fireballs!
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The reasons for doing so vary, from coaching transitions to the winter disintegration of rosters.
    — Chase Goodbread, The Tuscaloosa News, 11 Dec. 2025
  • But the ballpark’s slow disintegration is evident in the layers of chicken wire and chain link erected to keep people out of its most dangerous spots.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Losing sight of this has meant that faculty haven’t been using all of the tools at their disposal to fight the disintegration of tenure-stream employment.
    — Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The disintegration was complete with 11 seconds left in the period.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 14 Nov. 2024
  • That disintegration would, in turn, destabilize much of the rest of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The two remaining schools can’t reverse the disintegration of the Pac-12.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023

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