Sample Sentences for
disperse
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disperse as in:  the crowd dispersed

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    At the end of the marching, the Hitler Youth divisions were allowed to disperse.  (source)
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    And first I had to wait for the mob to disperse.  (source)
    disperse = scatter (spread out)
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    Soon we were clustered around her desk, trying in our various ways to comfort her. ... 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.  (source)
    dispersed = spread (broke up the cluster)
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    After ten minutes or so, during which the Firebolt was Passed around and admired from every angle, the crowd dispersed and...  (source)
    dispersed = scattered and left
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    Then he commenced to disperse his insides in a spray.†  (source)
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    The Singing was over, the people were dispersing throughout the city, and the guards, no doubt, would soon resume their search for him.  (source)
    dispersing = leaving
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    The family eats, then disperses.  (source)
    disperses = leaves to go to different places
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    Lactic dispersion rate: eighty-four.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    The weather stayed black, undispersed soot sitting on the snow.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undispersed means not and reverses the meaning of dispersed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The trees grew dispersedly about the sward—great elms and oaks and beeches—and Lancelot was thinking about Guenever with a heavy heart.†  (source)
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    Their fear of the guards, of the massacre they had so long awaited, was gone, dispersed by the roar and muscle of the bomber.  (source)
    dispersed = sent away
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    And, uh, see if you can disperse the crowd outside, okay?†  (source)
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    Ralph looked back at the dispersing smoke in the horizon, then up at the mountain.  (source)
    dispersing = spreading (thinning out)
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