dispel

Example Sentences

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While all the students and professional spies I met are trim and athletic, Prof Crettiez is also keen to dispel the myth of James Bond-like adventure.

From BBC

Next year, Ravinder and Gita will have been married for half a century, the trepidations of youth dispelled by time.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From BBC

"I worked so hard to dispel that all my life and here I was being accused of it."

From BBC

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