How to Use disperse in a Sentence

disperse

verb

• Police ordered the crowd to disperse.
• Danilecki grabbed the bat and told the group to disperse.
  — Andrew Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
• Make sure to put this device in a place where the heat is able to disperse.
  — Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
• The work at the stadium will begin when the game is over and the crowds disperse.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
• Their models showed that this spin would disperse the seeds in a wider arc.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
• Try to disperse the fall onto a larger part of the body, such as your side.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
• Monks will hand out small bags of sand and will lead a procession to beach to disperse the sand in the ocean.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2021
• The exhaust fan above the stove won’t be enough to disperse the emissions, either.
  — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2025
• If that happens, use the small wand to disperse the tint or dab off a bit with your finger.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2025
• Police refused and fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.
  — Laetitia Bezain, ajc, 29 Aug. 2022
• Police used tear gas to disperse the crowd ahead of an 8 p.m. curfew.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 July 2022
• Police used tear gas to try to disperse the crowd but failed and more and more marched down the lane and towards the office.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 13 July 2022
• The crowd dispersed when more police arrived with lights and sirens on.
  — Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Sep. 2024
• Those owls are then able to widely disperse, at times as far south as Texas.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 1 Feb. 2022
• The devices produce a loud noise, a flash and disperse a pepper powder in the air.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2022
• The rest of the group also began to disperse from the table amid the growing tensions.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 19 Apr. 2022
• For instance, a stiffer stem would disperse most seeds very near the parent plant.
  — Carolyn Wilke, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
• The crowd later dispersed and left Tamra and Jenn to have a heart-to-heart about their rocky friendship.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
• Over the following days, the colony was dispersed to other shelters around the city.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
• All seeds rely on some sort of vector to disperse seeds.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2023
• When garbage collectors pull the bag out, the small poop bags can spill out and the contents disperse onto the street.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 21 Dec. 2021
• People must be warned that tear gas will be used and allowed to disperse.
  — Agoes Basoeki and Niniek Karmini, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2022
• The spores are then dispersed to create new dog slime mold patches.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
• There are 10 fireplaces dispersed across the mansion’s 43 rooms.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2023
• The protests were marred by violent clashes with the police, who fired tear gas in Paris to disperse the crowd.
  — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2022
• In addition, the village will now disperse 4% of the PPRT funds every year to the library.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
• In today’s world of work, teams are commonly dispersed across the country and even the world.
  — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
• After a few minutes, the mourners got up and dispersed.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023
• The consistency of this formula is thick and easy to disperse around your hair.
  — Malia Griggs, Glamour, 19 Feb. 2025
• Trump already froze any remaining charging funds from being dispersed on his first day in office, but most of it was already in the states' hands.
  — Emily Forlini, PCMAG, 7 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 15 Mar 2025