disperse

Example Sentences

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As the crowd dispersed into the streets of what I was almost positive now was Boston, Massachusetts, in seventeen hundred and something or other, they grew quieter.

From Literature

Embassy is located, before they were dispersed amid thick clouds of smoke and what appeared to be water cannons.

From The Wall Street Journal

Thousands gathered in the streets of the capital Islamabad, many holding photos of late Iranian leader Ali Khamenei, with AFP witnessing police deploy tear gas to disperse crowds near the US embassy.

From Barron's

As night began to fall, search and rescue teams lit large floodlights to continue their search for the missing, while police and military officers dispersed the hundreds of onlookers for fear of another strike.

From Barron's

Police fired tear gas at the protesters who dispersed, the AFP journalist saw.

From Barron's