How to Use disprove in a Sentence

disprove

verb

• Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe disproved any lingering notions that the earth is flat.
• The book, which will be published in 2021 by Crown, sets out to disprove that.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2020
• To date, much of Noland’s account has yet to be proved, or disproved.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• The most salacious rumor to spring forth from the Pump Rules fandom should be one of the more easy to disprove.
  — Vulture, 6 June 2023
• The White House says the records disprove the allegations.
  — NBC News, 28 Apr. 2018
• Kroll said, adding that Ecosia has data to disprove this.
  — Alison Griswold, Quartz, 29 Nov. 2019
• The war’s course to date has disproved all these predictions.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
• Thankfully, that line was disproved over the course of the first issue last month.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• On the front page is a close-up of the Duchess’s fingers with a box drawn around them, which clearly disproves the claim the tabloid trying to make.
  — Amanda Arnold, The Cut, 12 Mar. 2018
• The British press also worked hard to disprove Andrew’s claims.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
• Now, a body of evidence has piled up that disproves claims about LK-99.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2023
• But the burden is not on you to disprove the allegations made.
  — Alvin Chang, Vox, 28 Sep. 2018
• The most moving thing about Santos’s lies is how many of them could be disproved in seconds.
  — Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review of Books, 1 Feb. 2024
• And the fact that, long after this notion has been disproved, the belief persists.
  — Kristen Bellstrom, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2018
• The fact that America has been at war in Afghanistan for almost three times as long does not disprove that.
  — The Economist, 17 Apr. 2021
• The police kept finding one more step and one more step that would disprove his story.
  — CBS News, 29 Jan. 2022
• The defense did not have evidence to disprove this claim, Geiger said.
  — Marilyn Icsman, Cincinnati.com, 14 June 2018
• We have been put in the position of trying to disprove things that didn’t happen.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2021
• But any pressure to disprove the naysayers isn’t felt within the UAPB locker room.
  — Arkansas Online, 21 July 2022
• Rohrabacher wanted to disprove claims that Russia was involved in the DNC hacks and leaks.
  — Ellen Nakashimaand William Booth, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2020
• Is the burden of proving this on Dr. Ford, or is the burden of disproving this on Judge Kavanaugh?
  — Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
• Photos from Reuters and Getty Images — as well as the full context of the video — disprove the notion that Harris staged the scene.
  — Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY, 25 May 2021
• The scientist isn’t out to prove something is right but to disprove something.
  — Andy Gole, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• But the result seems to disprove the idea that not seeing competitors can slow a runner down.
  — David R. Munro, The Conversation, 21 July 2021
• The team has denied the charges and sent the F.T.C. 102 pages of support documents to disprove the allegations.
  — Jenny Vrentas, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• That would mean that Meta and OnlyFans would have to share evidence to disprove the claim, which as of yet, neither has.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2022
• It was easily disproved, though, since, no, there is no such account in the best-selling book.
  — Allen Salkin, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024
• At the same time, Mr. Zuckerberg has disproved his own theory.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
• The claims have prompted local officials to come out and disprove these reports, but some Republicans have continued to echo these claims.
  — Scott Wartman, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024
• In fact, the way in which Block was able to disprove so many of the bonkers claims Trump’s team threw at him through forensic accounting and more than a little common sense shows our election system is actually pretty resilient when put to the test.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024