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
• Try to disperse the fall onto a larger part of the body, such as your side.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
• 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
• The devices produce a loud noise, a flash and disperse a pepper powder in the air.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 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
• 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
• 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
• Serbs tried to prevent them from taking over the premises, but the police fired tear gas to disperse them.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 29 May 2023
• At the same time, MSH caused the same cells to disperse, resulting in a darker skin color.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 July 2022
• The black holes would cause this dark matter to vibrate like a bell rather than dispersing.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
• When more than a hundred women gathered to protest the rules, the militants fired shots in the air to disperse them.
  — Jina Moore Ngarambe, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2024
• Quickly pour it down the drain with the disposal on to allow the product to disperse on the sides of the drain, and then turn the disposal off.
  — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2023
• The cold front could feature winds that disperse some of the smoke and ash that have bothered Palm Beach and Broward residents the past few days.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 7 May 2022
• As the event wrapped up, the crowds dispersed, and she’d been told police had found nothing suspicious at home.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
• While some would be washed downstream into the Black Sea, much would be exposed and, as the mud dried, the pollution would be dispersed by the wind.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 11 June 2023
• The female dispersed from the Lassen Pack, and the male was previously unknown to researchers.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 21 Nov. 2024
• But the most telling part of the whole spectacle is a couple that walks up while the crowd begins to disperse, takes a few cursory looks, and meanders off toward the rest of their day.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024