sunder
verb (used with object)
sunders
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present tense formof sunder (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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By the memoir’s end, that tidal wave sunders the relationship among the sisters and destroys the world of their childhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Ebola sunders the bonds that make us human.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2014
Each autumn - or earlier, if summer is particularly disappointing - there's an argument that sunders households up and down the country.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2013
By his devices he brings down the birds from the air and draws the fish forth of the waters and sunders mountains in twain and transports them from place to place.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by John Payne
When the world and its self-created duties rudely sunders two hearts which God created for each other and leaves them to waste away in mortal anguish, she is the compassionate one.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
