break apart
Example Sentences
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The car-sized rover carried two tubes of a chemical called TMAH, which can break apart organic matter to see what it is made out of.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
As the process continues, larger clusters of nucleoids often break apart into smaller groups that settle into neighboring pearls.
From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026
They continuously form and break apart, raising new questions about how often this happens and whether some regions of DNA are more active than others.
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
Seasonal freezing and thawing of the ground caused fossils to break apart and shift toward the surface through a process known as cryoturbation.
From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026
He had never tried to break apart anything as large as these rocks by magic, and now didn’t seem a good moment to try — what if the whole tunnel caved in?
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
