disjoin

Example Sentences

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"As the body metabolizes the rapamycin, the two fragments disjoin, deactivating the system."

From Science Daily • Sep. 21, 2023

These linguistic concretions are enough to show how hard it is for primitive thought to disjoin what is joined fast in the world of everyday experience.

From Anthropology by Marett, R. R. (Robert Ranulph)

I maintain, that in the 2d antist: you do disjoin Nature and the world, and contrary to your conduct in the 2d strophe.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

How happy are all other living things, Which though the day disjoin by several flight, The quiet evening yet together brings, And each returns unto his love at night!

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote

Nearly fifty years of wintry neglect and summer scorching had not availed to disjoin Harriet from organic dependence upon her mother.

From The Mettle of the Pasture by Allen, James Lane