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Example sentences for "disrupt"

Lexicographically close words:
disrespectful; disrespectfully; disrobe; disrobed; disrobing; disrupted; disrupting; disruption; disruptions; disruptive
  1. All of this leads me to what I am about to tell about that election, wherein the same influences that failed with bullets to disrupt the Union were now trying to accomplish the same purpose with ballots.

  2. And when his subordinates added to this sentiment the notion that integration would disrupt the Army and endanger its efficiency, they quickly persuaded the already sympathetic Royall that segregation was not only correct but imperative.

  3. He also felt that sending men to school would disrupt unit activities; altogether too many men would be assigned to overhead jobs, particularly during the period when Negroes were receiving training.

  4. Such publicity, he felt, would disrupt the military experiment and make it more difficult to apply generally the experience gained.

  5. How could the integration of 1,500 men throughout the worldwide units of the corps disrupt its mission, civil rights spokesmen might well (p.

  6. Since society separated the races, it followed that if the Army allowed black and white soldiers to live and socialize together it ran the very real risk of riots and racial disturbances which could disrupt its vital functions.

  7. There are tests however, which disrupt one's level of comfort substantially, and unfortunately, those which can prove fatal.

  8. Under the glaring neon lights, one cannot long remain apart from the harshness of the city; neon lights invade one's senses and disrupt one's dreams.

  9. Disrupt the flow of resources from rogue states to terrorists+.

  10. Deny terrorists entry to the United States and disrupt their travel internationally+.

  11. To break the bonds between rogue states and our terrorist enemies, we will work to disrupt the flow of resources from states to terrorists while simultaneously working to end state sponsorship of terrorism.

  12. Until we can eliminate state sponsorship of terror, we will disrupt and deny the flow of support from states to terrorists.

  13. Detect and disrupt terrorists' attempted movement of WMD-related materials, weapons, and personnel+.

  14. It's somebody who uses well- placed acts of violence to disrupt society's normal functions, right?

  15. They'll disrupt the hell out of everything and probably get a lot of the hostages killed.

  16. Maybe there would be some way to disrupt the proceedings, provide a diversion.

  17. We certainly want nothing to disrupt your timetable.

  18. Your attitude and remarks just now were rebellious, and, if allowed by those in authority, would disrupt us and place us at the mercy of savages.

  19. Can't he see that the king is using him as a tool to disrupt and destroy the camp, including him and his party?

  20. Then he was to block the so-called Bairoko Trail and disrupt Japanese troop and supply movements between Bairoko Harbor and Munda.

  21. By the end of the month, the Allied forces were landing on New Georgia and the Japanese lost the battle to disrupt the offensive.

  22. At the end of April 1943, the Japanese Eleventh Air Fleet launched a series of determined, but unsuccessful, attacks to disrupt the Allied buildup on Guadalcanal and in the Russell Islands.

  23. It is easy to see that a shaking of this kind is particularly calculated to disrupt any bodies which stand free in the air and are supported only at their base.

  24. These rents are in part due to the strains of mountain-building, which tend to disrupt the firmest stone, leaving open fractures.

  25. In the form of slender fibrils these underground branches enter the joints and bed planes of the rock, and there growing they disrupt the materials, giving them a larger surface on which decay may operate.

  26. Drug use is associated with crime and misconduct that disrupt the maintenance of an orderly and safe school conducive to learning.

  27. And so the new law left the doors wide open for French and native capitalists further to disrupt and exploit the hereditary and clan lands.

  28. In spite of the ups and downs of internal French politics French colonial policy persevered for fifty years in its systematic and deliberate efforts to destroy and disrupt communal property.

  29. I'll take care not to disrupt your repose And not to do anything you would oppose.

  30. You must have seen that I did my best To disrupt his plan and soothe his unrest.

  31. But surely you realize I cannot disrupt the economy of the entire island simply to dig a hole.

  32. They'll flock to the diamond field and disrupt the operation, and we can move back in to some of the shot stations.

  33. An attempt to embody the Four Points' in our basis of union would have defeated the organic union of our Southern Church in one general body; the adoption of the regulation in question would now disrupt it.

  34. Conduct on the part of the husband, which the wife overlooked, therefore, a generation ago, is to-day sufficient to disrupt the family bonds and become a ground for the granting of a divorce.

  35. Moreover, the labor of women in factories has tended to disrupt the home, particularly in the case of married women, as we have already seen.

  36. These violent, physician-induced traumas did seem to disrupt dysfunctional thought patterns such as an impulse to commit suicide, but afterwards the victim couldn't remember huge parts of their life or even recall who they were.

  37. During preparation for a fast, I never recommend that a chronically ill person quit taking prescription medicines because doing so can seriously disrupt their homeostasis.

  38. She ignored this advice; Marie never told her friends, said nothing to her family and tried to conceal it from her lover because she did not want to disrupt their life together.

  39. Accordingly, last night I signed an executive order that will block the assets in the United States of terrorist organizations that threaten to disrupt the peace process.

  40. The vast majority of scientists have concluded unequivocally that if we don't reduce the emission of greenhouse gases at some point in the next century, we'll disrupt our climate and put our children and grandchildren at risk.

  41. Davis was the head o the Southern junta, and the debate in the Senate was known to express in cold phrase, the passions that had rent the Convention and threatened to disrupt the party.

  42. The numerous rice paddies, centuries old, disrupt the natural drainage of the valley.

  43. The defenders yielded no ground and effectively used many supporting fires to disrupt the attack of the 26th Division.

  44. At least two patrols of the 305th Infantry would be sent south to disrupt enemy communications.

  45. Other than the silky rustle aloft, punctuated occasionally with the thin needle-like anathemas of the bull-bats, there was now not the slightest sound within to disrupt the death-hush of this place.

  46. That will stir up an unnecessary lot of trouble and help to disrupt the party.

  47. The effect of the reform measures you are advocating will be to disrupt the party.

  48. It will save your time and mine to say that I shall not change my plans to press these bills even if the result is to disrupt the party.

  49. In Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, Mali, we have to keep working with partners to disrupt and disable those networks.

  50. For more than a year, America has led a coalition of more than 60 countries to cut off ISIL's financing, disrupt their plots, stop the flow of terrorist fighters, and stamp out their vicious ideology.

  51. The horsemen immediately began firing rockets into Jadar's elephants from long bamboo tubes they carried, intending to frighten them and disrupt their ranks.

  52. Behind the elephants the infantry still marched unaware, until the confusion in the elephant ranks began to disrupt their front lines.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disrupt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    baffle; balk; blast; brave; breach; break; checkmate; circumvent; confound; confront; counter; counteract; countermand; crash; cross; crunch; crush; dash; defeat; defy; demolish; destroy; diffuse; discomfit; disconcert; discountenance; dish; disjoint; dislocate; disorder; disperse; disrupt; disturb; elude; fission; foil; fragment; frustrate; grind; hole; inconvenience; interrupt; mince; mix; open; perplex; pulverize; ruin; rummage; rupture; sabotage; scatter; shatter; shiver; shuffle; smash; spike; splinter; spoil; squash; stump; thwart; upset