How to Use disperse in a Sentence

disperse

verb
  • Police ordered the crowd to disperse.
  • And those are dispersed around the globe.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The microbes get dispersed and the plants get rain.
    — Katherine Bourzac, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The group dropped the elephant and dispersed.
    — Liam Adams, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Their models showed that this spin would disperse the seeds in a wider arc.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The group dispersed after about two hours.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Make sure to put this device in a place where the heat is able to disperse.
    — Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The crowd dispersed around noon, grabbing catered tamales on their way out.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • How will the minutes be dispersed?
    — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Agents fired pepper balls, flash bangs and tear gas to try to disperse the crowd.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
  • All that could disperse in the wind brought into the real on the body.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 11 June 2021
  • This allows more time for salts to dissolve and disperse in soil.
    — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The spores are then dispersed to create new dog slime mold patches.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • People must be warned that tear gas will be used and allowed to disperse.
    — Agoes Basoeki and Niniek Karmini, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2022
  • People must be warned that tear gas will be used and allowed to disperse.
    — Agoes Basoeki and Niniek Karmini, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Others fired their machine guns in the air to disperse crowds.
    — Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The crowd dispersed soon after.
    — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Anemochory is a term that describes seeds that are dispersed by wind.
    — Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Police used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse the crowd.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The crowd dispersed when more police arrived with lights and sirens on.
    — Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Try to disperse the fall onto a larger part of the body, such as your side.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The water vapor will disperse across your dog's body and keep them cool.
    — Emily Belfiore, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2021
  • As police moved into the area, the cars dispersed again.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton march 24, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Police used batons, tear gas, and live fire to disperse the crowd.
    — ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Knicks fans didn’t all disperse when the projection of the game was turned off.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 14 June 2026
  • Those owls are then able to widely disperse, at times as far south as Texas.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 1 Feb. 2022
  • For instance, a stiffer stem would disperse most seeds very near the parent plant.
    — Carolyn Wilke, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The crowd dispersed after tear gas was deployed, video showed.
    — Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • If that happens, use the small wand to disperse the tint or dab off a bit with your finger.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Both substances can disperse widely in the air.
    — Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026

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