DISSOCIATE in a Sentence

Learn DISSOCIATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for DISSOCIATE, such as:

1. She tried to dissociate herself from her past.
2. I wish to dissociate myself from what has just been said.
3. It is getting harder for the president to dissociate himself from the scandal.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISSOCIATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dissociate
 v.  to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms
 v.  regard as unconnected
Classic Sentence:
1  Mr. Wopsle had greatly alarmed me more than once, by his blowing and hard breathing; but I knew the sounds by this time, and could dissociate them from the object of pursuit.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
2  It was soothing, somehow, to the feelings to find myself dissociated even in the mind of this poor madman from the others; but all the same I do not follow his thought.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  She tried to dissociate herself from her past.
2  It is getting harder for the president to dissociate himself from the scandal.
3  I wish to dissociate myself from what has just been said.