How to Use dismantle in a Sentence

dismantle

verb
  • When will they dismantle the old bridge?
  • The after-school program was dismantled due to lack of funding.
  • The mechanic dismantled the engine to repair it.
  • He accuses them of trying to dismantle the country's legal system.
  • There is no talk of dismantling it, or rage.
    — Tembe Denton-Hurst, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Or at least dismantle some of it.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 24 Sep. 2025
  • You will be dismantled brick by brick.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Now that safeguard is on track to be dismantled.
    — AFAR Media, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Trump is busy dismantling many of these policies.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • All of that is dismantled and to be hauled away when the festival ends.
    — Ed Komenda, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • At the end of the book, all three are tortured for their attempts to dismantle the games.
    — Ashley Wolfgang, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The goal is not to pass every test, but to dismantle the very idea that love requires them.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The storm brought with it one symbolic bit of dismantling.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
  • There is still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled.
    — Sarah Lynch Baldwin, CBS News, 11 May 2026
  • There are still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 11 May 2026
  • Trump wants to dismantle that firewall.
    — State Rep. Matt Blumenthal, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2026
  • There are still-- enrichment sites that have to be dismantled.
    — CBS News, 10 May 2026
  • The plan to dismantle the dams has drawn mixed reactions from the public.
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2024
  • If needed, the dome can be dismantled and moved to a new location.
    — David Szondy june 23, New Atlas, 23 June 2026
  • If the mounting screws are exposed, simply back them out and then dismantle the knob and lock.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2023
  • When one chopper broke down, another would be dismantled for parts to fix it.
    — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Much of the float will be dismantled and reused as crews shift their focus to next parade season.
    — Gavin J. Quinton, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2026
  • More than four-fifths of the nuclear weapons that used to exist in the world have been dismantled.
    — Matthew Bunn, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Their lives are dismantled, in minutes not days, and most of them die in the Holocaust.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • All that stuff seems to have been dismantled for various reasons.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Those still inside rushed to dismantle tents, pack up anything left and figure out what to do with large items.
    — Lauren Hepler, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2021
  • Jobs will change and workflows will be dismantled – not as an act of destruction, but as an act of progress.
    — May Habib, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • First, there was shock in the aftermath of the roster dismantling.
    — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Meta now has a chance to properly dismantle a system that was flawed from the offset.
    — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2023
  • And what of the roster, one that was dismantled at the trade deadline and went on to lose 92 games?
    — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025

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