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
• This opinion was never disproved in the course of the next two centuries.
  — Zeev Sternhell, Slate Magazine, 7 Apr. 2017
• 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
• A skeptic out to disprove it needn’t even look farther back than the recent past.
  — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
• 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
• The book disproves the outsider's stereotype that the authentic Nashville drink is a White Claw or a shot of Fireball.
  — Nate Rau, Axios, 11 Oct. 2024
• Trump quickly went on defense and in the process repeated some false or misleading claims that have been long disproved or debunked.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2024
• Explorers subsequently disproved that judgment with a vengeance, and the world-is-flat theory was blasted to smithereens.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Dec 2024