disperse
verb (used with object)
to drive or send off in various directions; scatter.
dispersedly
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a word derived from
disperse.
Example Sentences
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The trees grew dispersedly about the sward—great elms and oaks and beeches—and Lancelot was thinking about Guenever with a heavy heart.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
On the next day, they were torn from the ground, severed into smaller pieces, and thrown dispersedly at greater distances from each other.
From Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State by Reuben Gold Thwaites
The principal part of these healthy and vigorous men live dispersedly upon their respective possessions, and cultivate with their own hands a greater or less extent of ground.
It is the organization, in regard to a great mass of common and fundamental interests that have hitherto been dispersedly served, of a collective purpose.
From First and Last Things by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
And it is aware of itself not as a whole, but dispersedly as individual self-consciousness, starting out dispersedly from every one of the sentient creatures it has called into being.
From God the Invisible King by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
