Sample Sentences fordispel (editor-reviewed)
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She tried to dispel the tension in the room with a lighthearted joke.dispel = drive away
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No amount of evidence could fully dispel the rumor once it had spread online.dispel = get rid of
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The explanation helped dispel her fears about starting the new job.dispel = drive away
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The sunshine did little to dispel the gloom that hung over the rainy town.
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There were few women and children among them, which seemed to dispel the holiday mood. (source)
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... there were good and bad people everywhere. The more I embraced those who were good, the more I hoped to dispel the evil from my life. (source)
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CINDER BLINKED RAPIDLY, TRYING TO DISPEL THE FOG FROM her brain.† (source)
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Spencer's reaction dispelled that theory.† (source)
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"You can kick both their tails for all I care, but do it somewhere else," Jim said, dispelling any thought I might have had that he cared anything about me.† (source)
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This dispels her first embarrassment, and the two begin to talk.† (source)
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Finish'd the days, the clouds dispel'd The travail o'er, the long-sought extrication, When lo!† (source)
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Something has to be done to dispel their envy.† (source)
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The figure of Phineas was set against the bulk of the tree; he shouted now and then, but these sounds too were quickly absorbed and dispelled.† (source)
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This had the immediate effect of dispelling the slight tension that had built in the room while Mr Harry Smith had been speaking.† (source)
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Medical science does not seal the earth, whose nether creatures seep out, hair by hair, disguised like the smoke that dispels them.† (source)
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3 Aloof, dissatisfied, plotting revolt, Comrade of criminals, brother of slaves, Crafty, despised, a drudge, ignorant, With sudra face and worn brow, black, but in the depths of my heart, proud as any, Lifted now and always against whoever scorning assumes to rule me, Morose, full of guile, full of reminiscences, brooding, with many wiles, (Though it was thought I was baffled, and dispel'd, and my wiles done, but that will never be,) Defiant, I, Satan, still live, still utter words, in new lands duly appearing, (and old ones also,) Permanent here from my side, warlike, equal with any, real as any, Nor time nor change shall ever change me or my words.† (source)
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