How to Use disprove in a Sentence

disprove

verb
  • Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe disproved any lingering notions that the earth is flat.
  • All of these claims have been disproved.
    — Carly Thomsen, The Conversation, 17 Dec. 2025
  • None of this has been disproved, of course.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The war’s course to date has disproved all these predictions.
    — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
  • To date, much of Noland’s account has yet to be proved, or disproved.
    — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The rest of the movie then goes to great lengths to disprove this shaky strawman of its own creation.
    — Ian Stokes, Space.com, 12 June 2026
  • Has the increase in football data helped prove or disprove any of these?
    — Michael Cox, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
  • This opinion was never disproved in the course of the next two centuries.
    — Zeev Sternhell, Slate Magazine, 7 Apr. 2017
  • The police kept finding one more step and one more step that would disprove his story.
    — CBS News, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Everyone needs the time to either prove or disprove their places on the depth chart.
    — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Thankfully, that line was disproved over the course of the first issue last month.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Give teams the space to prove or disprove it, as Pfizer did with timelines.
    — Curt Steinhorst, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The idea is to either prove or disprove that Gabriel belongs third on the depth chart.
    — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
  • But there’s no way to prove or disprove that, as with any of the WBC stuff.
    — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • These allegations will be disproved like all the rest.
    — Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 9 June 2026
  • Nearly two decades later, this has been roundly disproved.
    — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • We have been put in the position of trying to disprove things that didn’t happen.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2021
  • But the burden is not on you to disprove the allegations made.
    — Alvin Chang, Vox, 28 Sep. 2018
  • Did Beach House just disprove its own thesis of the celebrity brand?
    — Natalie Jarvey, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The defense did not have evidence to disprove this claim, Geiger said.
    — Marilyn Icsman, Cincinnati.com, 14 June 2018
  • The scientist isn’t out to prove something is right but to disprove something.
    — Andy Gole, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • And the fact that, long after this notion has been disproved, the belief persists.
    — Kristen Bellstrom, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The most moving thing about Santos’s lies is how many of them could be disproved in seconds.
    — Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review of Books, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The British press also worked hard to disprove Andrew’s claims.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Why do some people endorse claims that can easily be disproved?
    — Abraham Rutchick, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This study doesn't disprove that theory; bats could have more than one reason for staying out of the rain.
    — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2011
  • But a winter snow storm doesn’t disprove that the planet is, overall, warming.
    — Simmone Shah, Time, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The latest Swedish numbers do not prove or disprove anything.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 14 Sep. 2020
  • It was easily disproved, though, since, no, there is no such account in the best-selling book.
    — Allen Salkin, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024
  • But the result seems to disprove the idea that not seeing competitors can slow a runner down.
    — David R. Munro, The Conversation, 21 July 2021

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