How to Use disrupt in a Sentence

disrupt

verb
  • The barking dogs disrupted my sleep.
  • The weather disrupted our travel plans.
  • Covid-19 is still finding ways to disrupt some of those plans.
    Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 16 June 2022
  • The work will not disrupt transit service through the area.
    oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The walkouts are the latest in a wave of strikes that has disrupted Britons’ lives for months.
    Danica Kirka, ajc, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Or blame a bunch of whistles that disrupted the rhythm of what was a free-flowing game in the first half.
    Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The Houthis out of Yemen have been disrupting transit there for some time.
    CBS News, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The aliens need something weighty to disrupt with their gelatinous selves.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2022
  • This is also not the first time a World War II-era bomb has disrupted a sports venue.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2024
  • But there are fears shortage of the new naira notes could disrupt the elections itself.
    Stephanie Busari, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Spiegel says an extra stretchy mesentery could disrupt the structure of the gut.
    Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Dallas won’t have the chance to even get to Brady or disrupt his throws unless he is forced to hold onto the ball.
    Nick Kehoe, Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Those efforts to disrupt the elections also came in the form of hacking.
    Brian Bennett, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
  • That is the pattern the President aims to disrupt, and his plan relies on more than weapons.
    Time, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The landslide is one of several recent ones to disrupt rail service in the area.
    Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • When the balance is disrupted, these same systems can get all out of whack.
    Audrey Bruno, SELF, 1 May 2024
  • Expect Nina and Wylan to disrupt the dynamic among the Crows.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Doing so could disrupt patient care — or even lead to death.
    Sam Sabin, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The cut also alerted scientists to the fact that the eruption had disrupted the seafloor, which isn’t easy to spot.
    Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Microbes in the seafloor sediment that’s disrupted when the ship reaches the seafloor.
    George Petras, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2024
  • But even with Kerr keying the press, Australia could not disrupt England’s ability to play out of the back.
    Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Knowing ahead of time that Bell is not likely to disrupt the chemistry the Guardians built last season is also a plus.
    Joe Noga, cleveland, 21 Dec. 2022
  • But low spots in the ocean floor, near surf or breaks in sandbars, disrupt that uniform return of water.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2024
  • The body creates too many abnormal white blood cells, which disrupts the body's healthy blood cells.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Newborns have a startle reflex that can disrupt their sleep (and yours).
    Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Or was moving fast and breaking things the only way to disrupt the taxi industry?
    Gideon Lichfield, Wired, 12 July 2022
  • Too Late: At the start of the show, at least a few stars got caught in the wings waiting for a commercial break to return to their seats so as not to disrupt the telecast.
    Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Hoke is mindful of disrupting team chemistry with payouts to transfers who have yet to play a snap for the Aztecs.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023
  • But it’s made Beard less of an enigma and that also disrupts some of the show’s original comedic framework.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Removing this dam would not only disrupt that balance but could also have severe consequences for the City of Elgin.
    Courier-News, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025

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