disperse

So as the crowd began to disperse, a small group of us followed the farmers out to the scene of the crime.

Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

In the distance, a heron broke from the trees and gracefully skimmed the surface, dispersing the light.

Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice

They ran scared, and as they fled through the dispersed caribou herds the deer finally reacted, and the stampede of frightened animals which I had been expecting to witness all that afternoon became something of a reality.

Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf

The legion of winged men floating behind him dispersed with the panicked crowd, quickly disappearing into the smoky sky.

Susan Ee -- Angelfall

As a wave of musty air blew up to meet them, the android turned on her floodlight, dispersing the shadows from the sparse halogens.

Marissa Meyer -- Cinder

And, uh, see if you can disperse the crowd outside, okay?

Rick Riordan -- The Trials of Apollo

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Evergreen branches flared at random, dispersing their piney aroma.

Jerry Spinelli -- Maniac Magee

It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of night.

Madeleine L’Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

I stood there until the crowd had dispersed, and then, for some reason I didn’t understand, I felt the impulse to bend down and kiss her casket.

Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client

From here, the Lord willing, you will disperse to families who need you and want you.

Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train

The Singing was over, the people were dispersing throughout the city, and the guards, no doubt, would soon resume their search for him.

Jeanne DuPrau -- The City of Ember

I watched the spectators disperse.

Ji-Li Jiang -- Red Scarf Girl

He walked on the balls of his feet, dispersing his weight evenly so he could strike out in any direction with a balanced effectiveness.

David Baldacci -- Zero Day

The tour ends and the children disperse and Marie-Laure is reinstalled in the Grand Gallery with her father.

Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See

Hana scans the beach anxiously, but everyone has dispersed: The old man has plodded on, halfway down the beach by now and out of earshot.

Lauren Oliver -- Delirium

This is not real, this is not real, this is NOT REALClancy must have let go, or I must have found a way to twist away, because just as quickly as the fire came, it went back out, dispersing in three shaky exhales.

Alexandra Bracken -- The Darkest Minds

I preferred not to dwell upon the matter, which was just as well, for the polychrome cloud went on its way eastward, allowing light to flood around us once again; Sophie smiled, as if the sun’s rays had dispersed her moment of gloom, and hurling a final crust at Tadeusz, said that we should be getting back to Yetta’s.

William Styron -- Sophie’s Choice

The sky began to lighten in the east as the group dispersed.

Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus

"Everyone please disperse," shouted a broad-shouldered man in a crisp blue coat and a sleek, freshly powdered wig.

Laurie Halse Anderson -- Chains

The knot of advisers dispersed and the crowd hushed, falling back to wait.

Diana Gabaldon -- Outlander

Later, the group would disperse to their cabins and Alan would sit on the top deck, almost invariably alone.

Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King

Disperse.

Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch

I cover my mouth with my glove to disperse the white of my breath in the icy air.

Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire

Ralph looked back at the dispersing smoke in the horizon, then up at the mountain.

William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

After waiting by turns for three hours the queue disperses.

Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

They never collect the bloodbath bodies until the killers have dispersed.

Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

A tickle grew in Tally’s throat as the pepper dust dispersed on the wind.

Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies

At the end of the marching, the Hitler Youth divisions were allowed to disperse.

Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

We catch up to the Amity in front of us as we cross the courtyard to the dining hall and disperse among them.

Veronica Roth -- Insurgent

Cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed.

Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

They disperse pretty quick, thinking my rage level is high and they don’t want to be caught in the crossfire.

Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry

Their fear of the guards, of the massacre they had so long awaited, was gone, dispersed by the roar and muscle of the bomber.

Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

The crowd dispersed quickly.

Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

It was banana split in the wrong sense of the term: the sea dispersed them.

Yann Martel -- Life of Pi

Napoleon read out the orders for the week in a gruff soldierly style, and after a single singing of Beasts of England, all the animals dispersed.

George Orwell -- Animal Farm

There were days when they assembled and then promptly dispersed again, frankly admitting to one another that there was not really anything to be done.

George Orwell -- 1984

The stupid, the unintelligent, those who are dispersed, incapable of attention, of effort, have no right to a higher education.

Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Some were missing and he knew that she had started on her own slow process of dispersing the dynamite in her house, stick by stick.

Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

And they dispersed.

Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

He looked down as if expecting his comrades to re-form, but their gold dust remains dispersed in the wind.

Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero

Miss Caroline smiled, blew her nose, said, "Thank you, darlings," dispersed us, opened a book and mystified the first grade with a long narrative about a toadfrog that lived in a hall.

Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

They dispersed in all directions.

Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth

It was not until even the dusty cloud was no longer to be seen, that the gazers dispersed.

Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist

Opus Dei is a personal prelature of Vatican City, and His Holiness can disperse monies however he sees fit.

Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

Imagine having to concentrate just to keep yourself from dispersing to nothing.

Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid

The little knot of people towards Chobham dispersed.

H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds