How to Use disintegrate in a Sentence

disintegrate

verb

• The laser can disintegrate most kinds of rock.
• The paper will disintegrate if it gets wet.
• Too long, and the acids that give wine some of its feel in the mouth may disintegrate.
  — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019
• Yes, even the places where crumbs seem to disintegrate into the seams.
  — Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping, 6 Mar. 2023
• The ship disintegrated, along with most of the pier and much of the surrounding site.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• And when the heat shield starts to disintegrate to the point that the noise is annoying you, the demise of the muffler is not far behind.
  — Ray Magliozzi, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• The game against the Rockets disintegrated when the bench came in the last three minutes of the first quarter.
  — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 14 Dec. 2017
• Leave them outside in the open air for very long, and many will disintegrate.
  — Nsikan Akpan, National Geographic, 26 June 2020
• The fact that that has now disintegrated is just a tragedy.
  — Nihal Krishan, Washington Examiner, 23 Apr. 2020
• At some point, the bar begins to disintegrate and blur.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
• Similarly, the fruit of my jack-in-the-pulpit flops to the ground in the fall, the moist flesh disintegrates over the winter and seeds sprout.
  — Cynthia Kling, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• The bristles are glued to the base, and water and detergent can cause the glue to disintegrate and the bristles to come loose and shed.
  — Kate Sullivan, Kristi Kellogg, Allure, 14 Feb. 2022
• Yet, that way of farming did disintegrate for the most part.
  — Philly.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• But the alcohol has to be potent enough to disintegrate the lipid layer and kill the virus.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2020
• Cracked ice cubes that disintegrate in your palm are a no-go, as is crushed ice for Christmas.
  — Louise Dixon, Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
• The pair were extremely close, and his death was the point Hunter’s life began to disintegrate.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2021
• And with them, a way of life that has defined much of the state for more than a century and a half is disintegrating.
  — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2018
• Substantial, but not so much so that the bun disintegrates from rivers of juice.
  — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 19 July 2017
• Split ends are the culprit that don’t allow hair to grow because the ends disintegrate on their own.
  — Tatjana Freund, Marie Claire, 6 May 2020
• Vision starts to glitch out and disintegrate, as do his kids.
  — Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2021
• On one side, a full skeleton still stained brown and black from disintegrating flesh is laid out on a sheet.
  — Benjamin Preston, Fortune, 24 July 2017
• The power of the thong disintegrated with the invention of the seamless brief.
  — Shira Feder, Vox, 5 June 2019
• Lunar eclipses are times when things in your life may leave, fall apart, or disintegrate.
  — Emily Simone, Allure, 15 July 2019
• Mostly this is the fault of the disintegrating barley, humblest of grains, though the beans (kidney) don’t help.
  — Benjamin Dubow, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2024
• Thrilled shoes didn’t disintegrate, nothing left my shorts and didn’t tear my ACL.
  — Phil Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• But after the front part of the plane disintegrated on impact, the tail section broke off, turned over and slid hundreds of yards through the sandy soil.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
• In the wake of Rob’s death, Dr. Ashton had a decision to make: disintegrate into a ball of anger and grief or step into the light of hope and love.
  — Womansday.com Staff, Woman's Day, 25 Aug. 2019
• But the prospects for such a pact disappeared right around the time the Syrian state disintegrated and went up in flames.
  — Neri Zilber, Vox, 25 Apr. 2018
• There’s a point at which the Mandalorian disintegrates a couple of Jawas right off the bat, and nothing is made of it.
  — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 11 Jan. 2020
• When trust disintegrates, morale and engagement can plummet, leading to turnover.
  — Vicki Salemi, Boston Herald, 2 Mar. 2025