Others are volatile, dispersing freely from one site to another and forming new colonies in an unpredictable way.
Several of these merry-makers enliven the passing hours with music and dancing, to the delight of a numerous audience, while a second ever-changing but never-dispersing audience is gathered around the bicycle.
One evening, as she watched the great black cloud of crows dispersing among the trees, she began to weep, in spite of herself.
But instead of promptly dispersing and going home to dinner as usual, they stopped a few paces off, broke up into knots, and began whispering.
And now, out of the blue-black sky, great globes of swimming liquid fire floated constantly, and dispersing into feathery flakes of opal light, melted softly .
The British detail now retired towards the centre of the town, the Americans following them across the bridge, but immediately dispersing without military order.
Placing himself between this party and the garrison, Wayne surprised Brown by a night attack, killing ordispersing the whole party.
Homer said, "They had another interesting device for dispersing mobs.
We used standard tactics in gaining control and then dispersing them.
Then the sun rose without dispersing the cold, which was afterwards so severe in their room at the Russischer Hof in Frankfort that in spite of the steam-radiators they sat shivering in all their wraps till breakfast-time.
At this moment the sun appeared in the horizon, and began slowly dispersing the gloom.
Still, his ideas grew gradually clearer, his memory returned, and he remembered the strange and disproportioned fight of one man against twenty, in which the former remained the victor, after killing and dispersing his assailants.
The cook should be encouraged to be careful of coals and cinders: for the latter there is a new contrivance for sifting, without dispersing the dust, by means of a covered tin bucket.
Friction of the body is one of the most gentle and salutary kinds of exercise, cleaning the skin, dispersing stagnating humors, promoting perspiration, strengthening the fibres, and increasing the warmth and energy of the whole body.
If Lockhart's reconnaissance had been made a day earlier, Macpherson might probably have utilised to good purpose by dispersing the Kohistanees, the day which as it was he spent halted at Aushar.
The enemy was dispersing in full flight, and the cavalry was chasing the fugitives across the plain on the right.
Six brigades, sweeping forward from the forest, dashed down the slopes, and in a few moments the broken remnants of the Federal divisions were dispersing in panic across the plain.
The British succeeded in dispersing the boats with the baggage belonging to his command, and captured 12 of them.
The former fought their way through the Mexican lines, dispersing the enemy, capturing their baggage and artillery, and several of their superior officers.
The fog that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they were descending.
The remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs in fine order.
Amid the powder smoke, slowlydispersing over the whole space through which Napoleon rode, horses and men were lying in pools of blood, singly or in heaps.
The carabiniers drew their swords, orders were given for the charge, and in an instant they dashed down the street, the people dispersing like the mist before the wind.
The sea in mountains breaking over our bows, and a single wavedispersing in mist through the violence of the storm; ship rolling to such a degree that we are compelled to keep our berths; cabin dark with the deadlights in.
When the family weredispersing to their chambers that night, Reginald lingered to speak to Kate.
One instrument for dispersing knowledge, employed by the United Irishmen, is worth mentioning, as it is applicable to any cause, and may be used with much greater effect in an age when every body is taught to read.
It would have worn out, scattered, absorbed, the adversary by dispersing his energies over the world, while our victory will bring us a double danger.
They charged as a squadron of cavalry would do, coming down to within twenty and even ten yards of the earth, and with bombs and machine guns effectually dispersing and demoralizing the graycoats.
The expedition landed at several points, capturing a steamer with a quantity of ammunition and dispersing parties of the enemy, and proceeded as far as the Yazoo River.
But before we taste that happiness we must perform our penance; 'No living happiness can be for the unclean,' as the holy father preached to his flock of the monastery dispersing at matins.
The weather, however, continued fair; and the wind dispersing the fog that had settled on the hills, it was tolerably clear also.
During the night preceding the 14th, some dogs having got in amongst them, forced them out of the pen, killing four, and dispersing the rest.
But he who has huge fortune is very cautious about dispersing it.
The mirror surface behind each ruby rod rotated into its shielding position, dispersing the energy that the huge mirror directed towards the rods, back into space.
Dispersing the Spanish fleet sent to oppose him, he entered the harbor of Cadiz, where he destroyed two large galleons and a handsome vessel filled with provisions and naval stores.
Some of them, however, continued in their old courses, dispersing over all seas as enemies of the shipping of the world; but by the year 1700 their career had fairly come to an end, and the race of buccaneers ceased to exist.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dispersing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
