disintegrate

Example Sentences

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When these shelves thin or disintegrate, that stabilizing effect disappears, allowing land ice to move more quickly into the ocean and raise global sea levels.

From Science Daily • Oct. 29, 2025

Were you to cook Swiss chard fully intact, without separating the stems and leaves, the leaf would disintegrate by the time the stems were tender.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

SpaceX, for instance, designs most of its Starlink satellites to disintegrate upon reentry.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2025

Each piece he grabbed seemed to disintegrate in his hands.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2025

For half a mile, it looked as if they might, in fact, disintegrate as a crew, as they had done so often lately.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown