disperse

Example Sentences

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Part of what makes air power such a potent tool, she said, is that it prevents enemy forces from being able to concentrate safely, and when the enemy forces disperse, they lose their offensive power.

From The Wall Street Journal

Nevertheless, as soon as Nerys's colleagues and customers see her working, operating machinery and loading and unloading materials, the looks of judgement disperse.

From BBC

Despite acting oblivious in front of the other partygoers, Blair opened up to Sheen when everyone dispersed.

From BBC

Tehran appears to have moved some of its missiles and truck launchers out of the bunkers before the war began, hoping to protect them from attack by dispersing them.

From The Wall Street Journal

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