Sentences with 'disintegrate'
Example sentences and phrases with the word disintegrate and other words derived from it.
• « For centuries, people have tried to draw lessons from the decline and fall of Rome about their own societies, a practice inspired by the question of how such a powerful and, at one time, stable civilisation could disintegrate so completely. »
• « Moist, acidic soils quickly disintegrate the remains of the deceased animal due to their dissolving action. But if that same soil is completely devoid of air to allow such a corrosive action, it is possible that even some soft tissues of the deceased are preserved. »
• « Neutrinos - uncharged particles that pass through everything - also have the ability to disintegrate protons, as do cosmic rays that streak through space full of strange radiation. Both are emitted by furious stellar reactions, novae, supernovae and neutron stars. The three particles into which an atom is reduced when collided by these sidereal intruders are similar to the remains of a defunct proton. »
• « Jackson pledged to protect the Union against those who would attempt to disintegrate it over the tariff issue. "The Union shall be preserved," he declared in 1830. »