Example Sentences

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By full-time though they, like England, had disintegrated.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2025

Mr. Baron listened as two men on a boat docked near New Bedford called the Coast Guard for a rescue because the dock had disintegrated and live power lines were in the water around them.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2021

But by the end of the decade, his output had diminished, his first marriage had disintegrated and his behavior was increasingly erratic.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2021

The rocket had disintegrated when it made an abrupt course correction to compensate for a wrong turn—a turn it had not, in fact, taken.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2019

Soggy chunks of bun and meat were visible between clenched fingers—she had squeezed the sandwich so ferociously that it had disintegrated.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen