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to scatter or cause to spread- The crowd dispersed.
- The birds eat the fruit and disperse the seeds through the countryside.
- 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
- He had come up from deep down in the water as the dark cloud of blood had settled and dispersed in the mile deep sea.Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea
- After ten minutes or so, during which the Firebolt was Passed around and admired from every angle, the crowd dispersed and...J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- The bell gave us the signal to disperse.Elie Wiesel -- Night
- 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
- Men who before this change seemed to have been hid in caves dispersed themselves and were employed in various arts of cultivation.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- Ralph looked back at the dispersing smoke in the horizon, then up at the mountain.William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
- The carriage moved off through the dispersing crowd.Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
- The morning was rather favourable, though it had rained all night, as the clouds were then dispersing across the sky, and the sun frequently appeared.Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
- When a body—a tree or an animal, for instance—died and disintegrated, the atoms dispersed and could be used again in new bodies.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- And first I had to wait for the mob to disperse.Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
- A few people lingered round and praised her playing, but finding that she made no reply, dispersed to their rooms to write up their diaries or to sleep.E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
- They gave Pahom a feather-bed to sleep on, and the Bashkirs dispersed for the night, promising to assemble the next morning at daybreak and ride out before sunrise to the appointed spot.Leo Tolstoy -- How Much Land Does a Man Need?
- The trade routes that had once converged on the great harbours, and later on the great airports, had finally dispersed into an intricate web-work covering the whole world with no major nodal points.Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
- It was a long while before the crowd around the Weasley twins dispersed, then Fred, Lee and George sat up counting their takings even longer, so it was well past midnight when Harry, Ron and Hermione finally had the common room to themselves.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry stopped walking and let out a long sigh, his smoky breath dispersing rapidly upon the frozen air.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- The crowd had almost dispersed now, the stragglers giving the monumental figure of Grawp a wide berth as he cuddled Hagrid, whose howls of grief were still echoing across the water.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- After this, the boys dispersed for a final lark, leaving Mrs. March and her daughters under the festival tree.Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
disperse = scatter
dispersed = scattered (stop being a crowd in one place)
dispersed = spread
dispersed = scattered and left
disperse = leave (moving away from each other)
dispersing = spreading
dispersed = spread out (scattered)
dispersing = spreading (thinning out)
dispersing = scattering (moving away from each other)
dispersing = spreading (moving away from each other)
dispersed = scattered (spread out)
disperse = scatter (spread out)
dispersed = scattered and left
dispersed = scattered (left each other)
dispersed = spread
dispersed = scattered and left
dispersing = spreading and thinning out
dispersed = scattered and left