Sample sentences for DISSOLUTION

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Definition

to end a relationship or meeting; or to terminate a legal entity such as a corporation

or in chemistry: the process in which one substance is dissolved in another; or the separation of a compound into its components by chemical action

It was my antagonist—it was Wilson, who then stood before me in the agonies of his dissolution.
Edgar Allan Poe -- William Wilson

But even his tremendous will could not overcome the dissolution that assailed it.
Jack London -- Sea Wolf
We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
A New York Communist writer summed up the history of the clubs and made a motion for their dissolution.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
His eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep, his breath short; the man responsible for the dissolution of Treadstone was exhausted.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
He had never sought the dissolution of the Soviet Union and never renounced his fundamental commitment to Marxism-Leninism.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
There seemed a purpose to its dissolution, as if it were directing them somehow....
Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
7:00—still breathing at long pauses; symptoms of immediate dissolution.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
No one is getting what they want out of the caste dissolution, and they think we don't care."
Kiera Cass -- The Heir
A sense of impending dissolution, of loss and death, brought them back.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
In the Rostovs' staid old-fashioned house the dissolution of former conditions of life was but little noticeable.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
As for Jett and his men, they were a divided outfit, wearing toward dissolution, answering to the wildness of the time and place.
Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
Carter paused to let them imagine the dissolution of The Vigils.
Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War
What dissolution of the soul you demanded in order to get through one day, what lies, bowings, scrapings, fluency and servility!
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
Rich men are, frequently, in these days, saved from this dissolution of their fortune by their ability to hire younger brains.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
Thou hast been my evil angel, and I will be thine—I will dog thee till the very instant of dissolution!
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
CHAPTER 38 A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP I did not allow my resolution, with respect to the Parliamentary Debates, to cool.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
Ten years, twenty, before dissolution begins to claim him.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels
When Jaime had taken his leave of Lady Amerei, she had been weeping softly at the dissolution of her marriage whilst letting Lyle Crakehall console her.
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
To this fair creation of the great Middle-Age the Dissolution was, as historians tell us, the death-knell.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure

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