How to Use dismantle in a Sentence

dismantle

verb

• When will they dismantle the old bridge?
• The after-school program was dismantled due to lack of funding.
• The mechanic dismantled the engine to repair it.
• He accuses them of trying to dismantle the country's legal system.
• But with a Super Bowl berth on the line, Kelce dismantled the Ravens.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• Their lives are dismantled, in minutes not days, and most of them die in the Holocaust.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• All of that is dismantled and to be hauled away when the festival ends.
  — Ed Komenda, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2023
• The Rams were dismantled on offense, defense and special teams and lost to the Dallas Cowboys on the road, 43-20.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• The Nuggets were the more physical and aggressive team in dismantling the Suns.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2023
• Experts were working to dismantle the weapons that were discovered near the village of Qlaileh, south of the port city of Tyre, the army said.
  — WSJ, 17 Oct. 2023
• Many on the right flank opposed the deal McCarthy struck with Biden this year over the spending levels and are trying to dismantle it now.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
• The other three dams are set to be dismantled next year, starting with a drawdown of the reservoirs in January.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• This year, California, which has the largest death row in the country, has begun dismantling it.
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2024
• Taylor’s denial came less than a day after Duke dismantled the former No. 9 team in the country, 28-7.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
• In New York City, seemingly every day, a beloved local restaurant goes dark, the soul of the place dismantled along with its fixtures and fittings.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023
• Yet many of the systems meant to help children in crisis have been left to atrophy, and in some cases have been dismantled since the Great Recession.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The first lesson from the result was indeed that voters could slam the brakes on the PiS drive to dismantle democratic norms and institutions.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2023
• The Silver Tree hasn’t been discovered and was most likely dismantled during one of the city’s raids, but the tale of it is enough to fill our own cups just like it once did those of the Mongol royals.
  — Breanna Wilson, CNN, 15 May 2023
• The United States can neither easily dismantle the axis nor defeat the ideas that spawned it.
  — Narges Bajoghli, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2024
• The courts are dismantling the NCAA’s policies governing the transfer portal and name, image and likeness.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
• What follows is a dubious effort to dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools.
  — Ian Wang, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• Construction workers were called in to dismantle the kitchen, and at one point, workers began chopping down trees lining the park.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• Israel claims Rafah is Hamas' final stronghold and has vowed to dismantle its battalions there.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
• Houston dismantled Max Scherzer, still dealing with some kind of forearm issue, on the way to completing a three-game sweep with a 12-3 win Wednesday.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
• The goal is not merely to disrupt public education but to defund and dismantle it.
  — Jonathan Mahler, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• The Supreme Court will hear a case that could dismantle four decades of legal precedent that has largely favored regulations when those rules are challenged in court.
  — Brianna Herlihy, Fox News, 5 May 2023
• The group says that at least 20 new outposts have been established since the beginning of the year, a handful of which were dismantled by the Israeli Army before being reassembled.
  — Gabby Sobelman, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• Its supporters say Khan’s party has been all but dismantled over the past year, with many of its leaders arrested and its offices raided.
  — Haq Nawaz Khan, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
• Each inspection requires two months to dismantle the engine, replace the discs (if flawed), and reassemble them.
  — Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
• When the quake trials are completed, the structure will be dismantled and parts of it recycled to construct other test buildings.
  — Todd Woody, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024