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How to use disprove in a sentence

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Disprove means to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute. Example: “Can you check into his story? See if you can disprove it.”

Examples of disprove by meaning

verbTo prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.

  • disprove a theory
  • disprove a hypothesis
  • “The commission is not set up to disprove or to prove President Trump’s claim, nor is it just looking at the 2016 election.2017 May 15, David Wright, “Kobach: ‘Election integrity’ panel ‘not set up to prove or to disprove’ Trump”, in CNN

More sentences with disprove

  • Can you check into his story? See if you can disprove it.From the entry check into
  • Prove or disprove, and salvage if possible.From the entry salvage
  • We disprove a conjecture in Density Functional Theory, relative to multimarginal optimal transport maps with Coulomb cost.2015, Maria Colombo, Federico Stra, “Counterexamples in multimarginal optimal transport with Coulomb cost and spherically symmetric data”…. From the entry multimarginal
  • This disproved Euler's conjecture, as 22 is an even number not divisible by four.2013, Natalia Juristo, Ana M. Moreno, Basics of Software Engineering Experimentation, page 381. From the entry Greco-Latin square
  • As research continued, though, earlier cases of AIDS were reported (table I6-2), disproving the patient zero theory.2009, Teri Shors, Understanding viruses, illustrated edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 443. From the entry patient zero
  • Every reasonable source (aka not Democratic hateblogs) also disproves this troll's idiotic claims.2009 October 27, Jim Alder, “Re: Another leftard lie about President Bush”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet). From the entry hateblog
  • The statement is on the order of Last Thursdayism; it can never be proven or disproven.1991 June 3, Ken Arromdee, “Re: Firewalking”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet), retrieved 30 Sep 2010, message-ID <10836@emanon.cs.jhu.edu>. From the entry Last Thursdayism
  • Gilbreth for Walter Camp and Golf Illustrated, disproves the maxim utterly.1920 January, Walter Bannard, “Charting a Champion”, in Popular Science, volume 96, number 1. From the entry cyclegraph
  • When a jointist can not disprove a charge, the court will fine him.1906, “The Character of the Enemy We Are Fighting”, in Gleanings in Bee Culture: Volume 34, page 1380. From the entry jointist
  • This theory was never disproven or confirmed.2026 July 29, Nicholas Muhoro, “Amy Billig Vanished While Hitchhiking Through Coconut Grove. Then the Calls Began”, in Skip Boring…. From the entry theorise
  • Buoyed by that success, I was eager to disprove the myth that, “You can't change horses in mid-stream.”2011, Bob Wolff, Bob Wolff's Complete Guide to Sportscasting. From the entry change horses in mid-stream
  • Unfortunately for Pythagoras, his theorem led at once to the discovery of incommensurables, which appeared to disprove his whole philosophy.1946, Bertrand Russell, chapter 3, in History of Western Philosophy. From the entry incommensurable
  • Meanwhile, the New Atheists were making hay of the fact that such faithful misapprehensions about nature were easily disproved by scientific discovery.2026 March 26, Elizabeth Bruenig, “The Evidence That God Exists”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 26 Apr 2026. From the entry make hay
  • Once widely misspread, the belief that ketamine causes ICP elevation has been disproven, leading to its resurgence in the field of medicine.2022 July 28, Luis Rueda Carillo, Klepper Alfrdo Garcia, Nilufer Yalcin, Manan Shah, “Ketamine and its emergence in the field of…. From the entry misspread
  • She said at the time that it was a "one-off" honour, but that has now been disproved with a repeat visit for Princess Charlotte.2015 May 6, Colin O'Carroll, “Fermanagh woman thought registering a royal baby was a one-off honour... now Princess Charlotte has come…. From the entry one-off
  • Checkusers are allowed to check IP addresses of users, usually to confirm or disprove that one person is editing from several accounts.2014, Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, page 34. From the entry checkuser
  • The doctrine of the untrainability of pure memory remains as little disproven by the work of Ebert and Meumann as by that of Winch.1905 March 2, R[obert] S[essions] Woodworth, “Immediate Memory in School-Children. By W. H. Winch. […]”, in Frederick J[ames] E[ugene]…. From the entry untrainability
  • The authors predicted that when believers were deeply invested in a world view that had social support, believers would maintain their beliefs even when actual events disproved their worldview.2025 November 4, Thomas Kelly, “Debunking “When Prophecy Fails””, in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, volume 62, number…. From the entry invest
  • In order to disprove deities as a whole, one would need to prove that no higher being exists beyond humanity and have contact with some number of humans.2001 December 14, John Kang, “The case for Strong Atheism”, in alt.atheism (Usenet). From the entry deprove
  • Life is too short to listen to word-mincers; they are simply philosophical gymnasts who might as easily disprove what they prove while using the same methods of argumentation.1921, Walter Winston Kenilworth, Practical Occultism. From the entry word-mincer
  • It follows from the work of Gödel and Cohen that if the ZF axioms are consistent, the Axiom of Choice can be neither proved nor disproved from the ZF axioms.1993, Gary L. Wise, Eric B. Hall, Counterexamples in Probability and Real Analysis, page vii. From the entry axiom of choice

Meaning of disprove

  1. verb To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.

Full definition of disprove

Questions about disprove in a sentence

How do you use disprove in a sentence?
Disprove is used as a verb. For example: “Can you check into his story? See if you can disprove it.”
What is a short sentence with disprove?
“disprove a hypothesis”
What does disprove mean?
Disprove means to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.

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