disperse

Example Sentences

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When the convoy reached Spirit Lake, the residents dispersed to their homes.

From Literature

The strategic task then is to determine how to retain agency when technological power is concentrating rather than dispersing.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Increasingly, there’s a consensus that kinetic impact projectiles, which there are many different forms of, that these can never really be used safely to disperse crowds.”

From Salon

The lion had been seen traversing the city since at least Sunday and probably got lost while dispersing from its mother, the agency said.

From Los Angeles Times

But Iran is likely to have since tightened up security and dispersed.

From BBC