How to Use dissect in a Sentence

dissect

verb

• We dissected the poem in class.
• The city is dissected by a network of highways.
• We dissected a frog in science class.
• She dissected each point of his argument.
• To dissect the two parts, cut along each side of the center vein of each leaf.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2021
• So much to digest, so much to dissect and so much to dance to.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 29 July 2022
• Tuesday was a chance to put it all on film and dissect in the coming days.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2021
• Just the end of a 111-win season with a long winter to dissect what went wrong.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2021
• Sort, inspect, dissect and plant seeds and seedlings that guests can bring home.
  — Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2022
• The point of all this is not to again dissect the Chargers’ painful departure.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2021
• All of this, on top of the video from your performances as a BMOC that the teams can dissect and absorb.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
• There’s a ton to dissect coming out of this wild game on a gorgeous fall day along the lakefront.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
• Here, the lyrics via Genius to take in and dissect, with some notes on references.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 16 Mar. 2023
• In every episode, the series finds new rocks to turn over and new vermin to dissect.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2021
• But at least there are parts of his game that younger players can dissect and mimic.
  — Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Aug. 2021
• Beef explored that in a masterful way—and in a way that can be dissected over and over again.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 11 Apr. 2023
• Day said the past two days have been spent in intense meetings trying to dissect what has gone wrong and how to fix it.
  — Bill Rabinowitz, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2021
• Aides will dissect data like results from precincts and GOP turnout.
  — Selina Wang, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2024
• As with its counterparts in other states, the law itself is vague and at times hard to dissect.
  — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2021
• And besides, there’s plenty about J.J. Watt for the rest of us to dissect, such as his two seasons with the Cardinals.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 27 Dec. 2022
• The focus is football this week, though, and how to dissect TCU's 3-3-5 defensive scheme.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 27 Dec. 2022
• But in a book that goes to great lengths to dissect the transmission of habits and ideas from father and son, Elon is allowed to stay mum.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• Both sides dissected the two-hour video that Horn recorded from the Capitol.
  — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
• But stop and dissect the nasty insult that someone without children lacks a stake in the future of the country.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 25 July 2024
• Be warned: There are a lot of religious groups dissected in the graph below.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
• The bouclé run of the last few years can’t be dissected without mention of the bubble silhouette.
  — Mia Mercado, Curbed, 15 Sep. 2023
• The Anatomy of Electricity The team’s goal was to dissect the current in a strange metal.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• That first show is going to be dissected with a magnifying glass in the age of YouTube.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
• That first show is going to be dissected with a magnifying glass in the age of YouTube.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2024
• Having begun at the end of the story, the novel returns to the past to dissect every decision taken, along with some that were not.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024