Example Sentences

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However, these fronts will fragment and most of the showers will be in the North West.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2025

“Things will change completely in a matter of weeks, you know,” Robles said, adding that the project will fragment habitat his family worked hard to nurture.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2023

Their cries will fragment into separate, argumentative voices, each with its own thorny grievances, and they will run — not with, but away from, one another.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2018

If any parts of the gas cloud cool down or clump up early, they will fragment and coalesce into stars instead.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 28, 2017

Roughly half of the time, the protostar will fragment or be gravitationally bound to other protostars, forming a binary or multiple star system—stars that are gravitationally bound and orbit each other.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016