Example Sentences

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In lower-income neighborhoods, many buildings were disintegrating, and some public schools were far from parks and other green spaces.

From Scientific American • Sep. 22, 2023

It may also help explain why, for Americans, it can feel as if the world as a whole were disintegrating.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2022

In July, more than a month before the Taliban took Kabul, I reported that the Afghan armed forces were disintegrating and that the government could collapse.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2021

We are a generation that came into adulthood at the exact moment that its norms were disintegrating.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2014

She feels transparent, as if the hard lines of her hulking form were disintegrating.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García