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
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
Gold cannot form until certain unstable atomic nuclei break apart.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
I got into it, feeling pretty much like I had felt that night when I had decided to break apart all of my old Lego kits and start telling the House of Moneekrom story.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
