DISINTEGRATE in a Sentence

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In consequence again of those accursed laws of consciousness, anger in me is subject to chemical disintegration.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISINTEGRATE
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disintegrate
 v.  fall apart; become reduced to components, fragments, or particles
Classic Sentence:
1  If lack of sex is going to disintegrate you, then go out and have a love-affair.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  If lack of a child is going to disintegrate you, then have a child if you possibly can.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  She had never cared until now--now that Bonnie was dead and she was lonely and afraid and she saw across her shining dinner table a swarthy sodden stranger disintegrating under her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
4  She had had a premonition of it in the blind motions of her mating-instinct; but they had been checked by the disintegrating influences of the life about her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
5  In consequence again of those accursed laws of consciousness, anger in me is subject to chemical disintegration.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: V
6  Of these plans he had not merely one or two in his head but dozens, some only beginning to form themselves, some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
7  The disintegration is unprecedented.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
8  That army, like a herd of cattle run wild and trampling underfoot the provender which might have saved it from starvation, disintegrated and perished with each additional day it remained in Moscow.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  Officers worry Iraqi Army will disintegrate after U.S. draws down.
2  When the 16th century construction was destroyed by Bosnian Croat forces in November 1993, it seemed to symbolize the complete disintegration in relations between Bosnia's Muslims, Croats and Serbs and the country's descent into all-out war.
3  The plane completely disintegrated on the impact.
4  The plane flew into a mountain and disintegrated on impact.
5  It was startling to see the spirit of nationalism resurge as the Soviet Union disintegrated into a loose federation of ethnic and national groups.