How to Use disparate in a Sentence

disparate

adjective
  • But all of my stuff comes from disparate things.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
  • And those disparate facts made no more sense as part of a whole than my own life did.
    — Meg Pillow july 31, Literary Hub, 31 July 2025
  • Its disparate parts don’t quite jell, and the ending feels rushed.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Jan. 2023
  • All were Jewish, and their fates were as disparate as their styles.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • For vain people like me, these are more like threats than a set of disparate options.
    — Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 19 June 2017
  • The headwinds were enormous and came from disparate places.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Their goals and most of your perspectives are disparate.
    — Joseph M. Singer, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2026
  • These most recent protests—much like the gilet jaunes themselves—were disparate.
    — Jess McHugh, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2019
  • What were the odds of these two disparate people popping up at the same place at the same time?
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Rarer still that the recall reaches such disparate places on its third day.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 1 Nov. 2017
  • At the time, the two disparate groups were attempting to find common ground.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The results were even more disparate than the team had expected.
    — K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026
  • These disparate views have led to a rift over the most effective way to fight for lasting change.
    — oregonlive, 6 June 2020
  • Origin stories that were disparate, but people who all shared a unique sense of grief and loss.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 19 June 2024
  • The years and circumstances were as disparate as the cities themselves.
    — Alex Montoya, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022
  • These drugs have a [disparate] impact on the less wealthy and minorities.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 5 Mar. 2025
  • That drives racially disparate arrests and the use of force, researchers say.
    — NBC News, 14 May 2018
  • Signs of the disparate impact are already starting to emerge.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 9 May 2021
  • What brought about these disparate reactions?
    — Kevin Igoe, Baltimore Sun, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Critics haven’t been able to reconcile the film’s disparate goals.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026
  • What’s the key to getting a group of disparate people to all buy into the same vision?
    — Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2025
  • All in all, the game’s disparate plot threads never come together to feel like more than the sum of their parts.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2022
  • My former colleague was trying to create a quilt out of these disparate pieces.
    — Mara Kardas-Nelson, The Dial, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The response to the problem in these hotspots is as disparate as the landscape itself.
    — The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2021
  • What united these disparate pirates was the dream of making a fortune.
    — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
  • Just a week ago, Garcetti was proposing a monorail to connect disparate parts of the city.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2017
  • All of the disparate land parcels are connected by a road, and there’s private beach access as well.
    — Helena Madden, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2021
  • However, the two shortstops couldn’t have gotten off to much more disparate starts this spring.
    — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Death, fear, and sorrow unify the disparate practices.
    — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The picture of disparate student engagement is not black and white.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2020

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