disintegrate

Example Sentences

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When these shelves thin or disintegrate, that stabilizing effect disappears, allowing land ice to move more quickly into the ocean and raise global sea levels.

From Science Daily • Oct. 29, 2025

Were you to cook Swiss chard fully intact, without separating the stems and leaves, the leaf would disintegrate by the time the stems were tender.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

Each piece he grabbed seemed to disintegrate in his hands.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2025

Two decades after digital downloading was supposed to disintegrate the full-length LP, musicians seem as eager to collect and to sprawl — and sometimes to tighten up — as they’ve ever been.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2024

He thought that it might disintegrate, like the moth in the Red Room.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill