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
• Sediment clouds from mining can travel hundreds or even thousands of miles, potentially disrupting the entire mid-water food web and affecting important species such as tuna.
  — Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
• There has been tremendous Democratic energy and anger in recent weeks, with progressives disrupting Republican lawmakers’ town hall meetings and holding huge rallies.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025