How to Use pull apart in a Sentence

pull apart

verb
  • More lanes may be blocked to pull apart the wreckage.
    — Kris Habermehl, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Gently pull apart the layers to form petal-like shapes.
    — Karla Walsh, CNN Money, 12 May 2026
  • These two characters that are friends, that are pulling apart.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Why does my family keep getting pulled apart!
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
  • These panels pull apart easily and pack flat.
    — New Atlas, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Since these cards have to be pulled apart, there’s a higher risk of the card being damaged.
    — Tyler Holzhammer, New York Times, 26 May 2026
  • When the temperature drops again at night, the ice will contract and pull apart.
    — Stephanie Pearson, Outside, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Turkana began pulling apart about 45 million years ago, the researchers said.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • These sections can be gently pulled apart by hand or separated with a clean knife.
    — Rachel Gillett, Martha Stewart, 29 Dec. 2025
  • After a three-minute curing time, the two halves of the mold are pulled apart, and the finished object is removed.
    — New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But internally, the system starts pulling apart.
    — Alla Adam, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The podcast explores their creative choices by pulling apart one episode at a time, together.
    — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • Both vehicles were eventually pulled apart and towed away.
    — Briauna Brown, CBS News, 7 June 2026
  • The little pull apart rolls are soft inside, crisp at the edges, and deliciously scrumptious.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Their flaky layers pull apart easily, so they can be slathered with butter or fruit jam for a decadent breakfast treat.
    — Terrence Hayes, Southern Living, 19 May 2026
  • Molten rock beneath the crust rose upward, stretching and pulling apart the surface, creating miles-long cracks.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • What was once a game of balancing content with search intent to lure leads is slowly and surely being pulled apart.
    — Lis Anderson, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Burgundy fabric hung from ceiling to floor, and the curtains were gently pulled apart, forming a subtle opening.
    — Helen Molesworth, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Families physically pulled apart by uncaring hands over the outraged screams of the bereft?
    — Leonard Pitts Jr, Miami Herald, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The duplication begins with the two strands of DNA pulling apart like a zipper.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Rollins and Breakker started going after each other and were pulled apart by Pearce and officials.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
  • The round edges of the tree are perfect for pulling apart into dinner-sized rolls—grab one for breakfast and one for dinner, and maybe a few to freeze for later, too.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The East African Rift Valley gets its shape from three tectonic plates that have been slowly pulling apart.
    — Zelalem Bedaso, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Tensile strength gauges the maximum force a material can withstand before breaking when pulled apart.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
  • And families are physically pulled apart.
    — Leonard Pitts Jr, Miami Herald, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The CrystaLynx Dragons pull apart to mix and match and create new types of reptilians.
    — Katrina Cossey, Parents, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Now era long, straight hair, sits up as the pastoral scene is literally pulled apart by stagehands, revealed as nothing more than show business trickery.
    — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Once the plant is out of its old container, use your fingers to gently pull apart encircling roots and remove as much of the old potting mix as possible.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2026
  • It’s brilliantly matched with malawach, the Jewish Yemenite flatbread that’s wood-fired here and pulls apart in lacy croissant layers.
    — Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
  • When the tectonic plates began to pull apart millions of years later, those ancient faults at their edges reawakened, reincarnated as transform faults.
    — Evan Howell, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2026

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