apart
Example Sentences
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As time passes and several grow less independent—exiled to assisted-living facilities outside the city—their small circle starts to break apart.
No American—apart, perhaps, from Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger—has had an impact on modern China as consequential as that of Cohen.
In the same scenario, the vast Aletsch Glacier would break apart into several smaller sections.
From Science Daily
Because the comet broke apart, multiple explosions likely occurred, igniting widespread fires.
From Science Daily
"You have to make things easy to take apart, so that people clean them. The bottom line is, if it's not easy to take apart, you don't clean it."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
