How to Use dismantle in a Sentence

dismantle

verb
Definition of dismantlenext
Synonyms for dismantlenext
  • The after-school program was dismantled due to lack of funding.
  • He accuses them of trying to dismantle the country's legal system.
  • The next day, Khrushchev publicly announced the nuclear weapons in Cuba would be dismantled and removed.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 12 June 2024
  • The foundation wants to dismantle the federal government’s efforts to combat climate change.
    — Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
  • In addition to dismantling the ED, Project 2025 would end student loan forgiveness.
    — Ben Guarino, Scientific American, 19 July 2024
  • But with a Super Bowl berth on the line, Kelce dismantled the Ravens.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Their lives are dismantled, in minutes not days, and most of them die in the Holocaust.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • All of that is dismantled and to be hauled away when the festival ends.
    — Ed Komenda, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The Rams were dismantled on offense, defense and special teams and lost to the Dallas Cowboys on the road, 43-20.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The Nuggets were the more physical and aggressive team in dismantling the Suns.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Experts were working to dismantle the weapons that were discovered near the village of Qlaileh, south of the port city of Tyre, the army said.
    — WSJ, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Many on the right flank opposed the deal McCarthy struck with Biden this year over the spending levels and are trying to dismantle it now.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The encampments’ peaceful end comes as police have been called to dismantle tents around the state.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 19 June 2024
  • Four workers with trowels are soon dismantling the blocks.
    — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
  • The other three dams are set to be dismantled next year, starting with a drawdown of the reservoirs in January.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The combatants also dismantled the stone walls in the fields, and, when enemies were near, sometimes hid in them.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • This year, California, which has the largest death row in the country, has begun dismantling it.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The warehouse around him was filled with the whir of buzz saws and the flashing sparks of welding tools as his coworkers dismantled floats from past years of the iconic Rose Parade.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2024
  • Taylor’s denial came less than a day after Duke dismantled the former No. 9 team in the country, 28-7.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
  • In New York City, seemingly every day, a beloved local restaurant goes dark, the soul of the place dismantled along with its fixtures and fittings.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Yet many of the systems meant to help children in crisis have been left to atrophy, and in some cases have been dismantled since the Great Recession.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The first lesson from the result was indeed that voters could slam the brakes on the PiS drive to dismantle democratic norms and institutions.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The Silver Tree hasn’t been discovered and was most likely dismantled during one of the city’s raids, but the tale of it is enough to fill our own cups just like it once did those of the Mongol royals.
    — Breanna Wilson, CNN, 15 May 2023
  • The United States can neither easily dismantle the axis nor defeat the ideas that spawned it.
    — Narges Bajoghli, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Buildings that were part of the stockade were then dismantled, and the wood planks were reused to build homes located throughout Marietta.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 15 July 2024
  • The courts are dismantling the NCAA’s policies governing the transfer portal and name, image and likeness.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • What follows is a dubious effort to dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools.
    — Ian Wang, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Construction workers were called in to dismantle the kitchen, and at one point, workers began chopping down trees lining the park.
    — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Israel claims Rafah is Hamas' final stronghold and has vowed to dismantle its battalions there.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Israel has been seeking to dismantle Hamas following the October 7 attacks but with fighting ongoing and senior Hamas figures at large, that goal has seemed distant.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 14 July 2024

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