dispels

Example Sentences

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He taught that “a little light dispels a lot of darkness.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

What Thompson-Hernández’s art so easily dispels, no matter the genre it finds a home in, are all the knotty, misguided and trite representations of otherness in our contemporary world.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026

The report also dispels a common view that guns are mainly owned by rural residents.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2025

As with most holiday-related rituals, digging into the history of the yule log as a TV tradition dispels some of its mystical wonder, revealing its origin in desperate necessity.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

Medical science does not seal the earth, whose nether creatures seep out, hair by hair, disguised like the smoke that dispels them.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston