DISPERSAL in a Sentence

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On his retiring to his tent, many who had lingered in the lists, to look upon and form conjectures concerning him, also dispersed.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISPERSAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dispersal
 n.  the act of dispersing or diffusing something
Classic Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
1  She did not care to be mingled in their noisy dispersal: once in the street, she always felt an irresistible return to her old standpoint, an instinctive shrinking from all that was unpolished and promiscuous.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
2  Dispersed are we, the music wailed; dispersed are we.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
3  One hailed another, and they dispersed, across lawns, down paths, past the house to the gravel-strewn crescent, where cars, push bikes and cycles were crowded together.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
4  Tom waited until the crowd had dispersed, and the bustle was over; and then referred to a posted list of trains, and took counsel with porters.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
5  The national dustmen, after entertaining one another with a great many noisy little fights among themselves, had dispersed for the present, and Mr. Gradgrind was at home for the vacation.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
6  On his retiring to his tent, many who had lingered in the lists, to look upon and form conjectures concerning him, also dispersed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  These Gentiles, cruel and oppressive as they are, are in some sort dependent on the dispersed children of Zion, whom they despise and persecute.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  He ordered, however, Oswald to keep an eye upon him; and directed that officer, with two of his serfs, to convey Ivanhoe to Ashby as soon as the crowd had dispersed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  The crowd dispersed, indeed, but the knight was nowhere to be seen.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  Not the reign of your vainly-expected Messiah offers such power to your dispersed tribes as my ambition may aim at.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  All were attracted at first by the plants or the pheasants, and all dispersed about in happy independence.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  It was not until even the dusty cloud was no longer to be seen, that the gazers dispersed.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  Cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
14  After a few minutes' bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had carried the sick man dispersed.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII
15  The smoke above it had not yet dispersed.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence:
1  The population in this area is quite widely dispersed.
2  We were all hurled into the battle before the police dispersed us.
3  The Chinese are dispersed throughout the world.
4  The company commander rallied his defeated and dispersed troops.
5  Little Rock's schools were closed in a last-gasp effort to stop integration, its kids dispersed to schools in nearby towns.
6  Riot police fired in the air and lashed out with clubs to disperse hundreds of demonstrators.
7  The police were ordered to draw their batons and disperse the crowd.
8  The protesters stood firm as the police tried to disperse them.
9  Police used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.
10  Police used tear gas to disperse the crowd.
11  Police used tear gas to disperse the crowds.
12  Riot police used water cannon and tear gas to disperse the crowd.
13  The police fired tear gas into the crowd to disperse the protesters.