How to Use dissection in a Sentence

dissection

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  • Carey moved down a few centimeters along the tree trunk and started a new dissection.
    — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2020
  • There was plenty of soul searching and film dissection with an extending pause from on-field work.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 21 Aug. 2020
  • It is heralded as a contemporary classic for its style and dissection of racial injustice.
    — Sameer Rao, baltimoresun.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The Act mandated either public dissection or the hanging in chains of the cadaver.
    — Maude Campbell, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2020
  • In the case of police and protest events, the dissection often involves scrutinizing several different pieces of footage frame by frame.
    — Derek M. Norman, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2020
  • But a dissection of a person’s bookcases obscures the visual cue that a library is more likely to suggest: that of contemplation.
    — Sheila Marikar, ELLE Decor, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The first legal dissection in Arkansas came in 1874, and the cadaver was once again a Black man.
    — Tom Dillard, Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2020
  • But for all its ruthless dissection of the era, Mary Harron’s masterpiece also never fails to get the details right, which just makes the cuts that much deeper.
    — Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The aquarium added that one lucky school group will get the chance to be part of the dissection.
    — Amanda Jackson, CNN, 19 July 2021
  • For the full lineup, check out the event page and a dissection of the events in this article.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The scientists caught some of the insects and brought them back to their lab for dissection.
    — Richard Pallardy, Science | AAAS, 12 May 2021
  • Here are some clips from that recording, and Huke’s own dissection of each play.
    — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2021
  • McCrane had to stick his head through a hole in the set's dissection table for the entire scene.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The first sight of the 2021 A&M offense deserves dissection.
    — Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2021
  • There was more dissection of the idea of chaos magic [the source of Wanda’s powers] in the [writers] room, too.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2021
  • For an in-depth dissection of the show, check out our review by The Times art critic Christopher Knight.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The cause was an aortic dissection, a tear in the blood vessel leading from the heart, his son Henry said.
    — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The game is, like The Stanley Parable, a kind of formal dissection of its own medium.
    — Gabriel Winslow-Yost, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The team found 1,457 flowers, in both male and female phases, and cut many open with a dissection needle right on the spot.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 3 June 2021
  • Trust that this gets sweet soon, shortly after the worm-dissection talk.
    — Vulture, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The give-and-go with Weigel was a thing of beauty, a textbook dissection of the defense by longtime teammates.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • His dissection of the claim begins with a story The Courant published on Christmas Day 1955.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • But the reading is a dissection: of our fondest aims and beliefs, of all our watchwords.
    — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2021
  • While fish require hours of careful dissection, tiny snails are easy to squish.
    — Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
  • An hour into the dissection, Dykman is deep inside the fish’s gut.
    — Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
  • The Lionesses will be hard-pressed to beat the French, who finally found their form in a 6-1 dissection of China.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Jacksonville scored the game's last 10 points, with the help of a Philip Rivers interception and Minshew's dissection of the Colts secondary.
    — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Fletcher’s death of an aortic dissection came as a shock.
    — Rob Levine, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The liver was divided first, and the team slowly made their way to the back of the girls' abdominal wall to complete the dissection.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Meanwhile, Marcantonio had been given medication for a blood clot, which the doctors believed had caused his heart attack, a rare type called spontaneous coronary artery dissection, which usually occurs in women, Gluck said.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 5 Mar. 2024

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