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
"We ought all to be able," they say, "to bear with each other very well, and, if only thereby, refute the observation of the great Montesquieu, that trade knits together nations and sunders individuals."
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul
Thy tender lips, dear sleeper, summon me To that which saves the earth but sunders us; And in the silence of yon sky I read My fated message flashing.
From The Light of Asia by Sir Edwin Arnold
