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, ajc, 19 Dec. 2022
• 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
• When ice shelves disintegrate, ice from the glaciers that feed them can flow faster from the land to the ocean, contributing to sea level rise.
  — Judith Vonberg, CNN, 1 June 2017
• 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
• The second phase was meant to pave the way to an end to the war, although the truce disintegrated when Israeli forces resumed airstrikes on Gaza.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2025
• The top courses of the concrete block had disintegrated, and were nothing more than sand and small stones.
  — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Over millennia, the posts disintegrated, but researchers found traces of them in the ground.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
• The response in Europe to this whirlwind has been a combination of panic and confusion, as European parties from the left to the center right come to grips with the fact that the Atlantic alliance could be in the process of disintegrating.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2025