Deconstruct is an English word with synonyms like rede or interpret. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Deconstruct in a sentence
Related words
Deconstruct meaning
- To break something down into its component parts.
- To analyse in terms of deconstruction (a philosophical theory of textual criticism).
- To analyse in general.
Using Deconstruct
- The main meaning on this page is: To break something down into its component parts. | To analyse in terms of deconstruction (a philosophical theory of textual criticism). | To analyse in general.
- Useful related words include: rede, interpret.
- In the example corpus, deconstruct often appears in combinations such as: to deconstruct, deconstruct the, deconstruct their.
Context around Deconstruct
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Deconstruct
- In this selection, "deconstruct" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, characters, help, artists, marilyn, colonialism and rape stand out and add context to how "deconstruct" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aim to deconstruct rape culture and artists deconstruct their composition. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "deconstruct" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with deconstruct
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Deconstruct him immediately pic. (4 words)
Let me attempt to deconstruct the enigma. (7 words)
Make sure you have a tool to deconstruct your crab legs! (11 words)
Eric Fischl was very self-conscious of his sources, trying to deconstruct them, when he created “The Weight” in 1996, with the awkwardly posed nude carrying the symbolic weight of Western Civilization on her back. (35 words)
Our Jewish voice is also very important against Israeli propaganda, because it allows us to deconstruct the ideology which holds that all Jews are pro-Israel, and that to be against Israel is antisemitic. (34 words)
In a bid to deconstruct for the youths, Cassidy and Schiff will open a scene, and then allow Quinn to pause for an account of how events from days ago led to this moment. (34 words)
Make sure you have a tool to deconstruct your crab legs! (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
Even if was intending to deconstruct Marilyn, he’s guilty of also fantasizing about her.
Every self-aware episode effortlessly transforms the series into a different anime genre as the show's characters deconstruct their archetypes while engaging in mile-a-minute reference-laden dialogue.
He claimed that adults pushing to protect children from lessons on sexuality and gender should 'deconstruct' their viewpoints.
Our Jewish voice is also very important against Israeli propaganda, because it allows us to deconstruct the ideology which holds that all Jews are pro-Israel, and that to be against Israel is antisemitic.
She believes initiatives like the Cree-Innu partnership help deconstruct colonialism and can be extended to future social and economic collaborations.
Sometimes, one has to look at them from a different prism – a dialectic perspective that helps to deconstruct their playbook.
There's so much cute charm to and the aesthetic difference to these titles could be fun material to deconstruct in a feature film.
We’re sure it makes sense in context, the same as all those other left-leaning phrases filling the whiteboard that the right loves to deconstruct.
Jazz theory helps me deconstruct the music in a way that the music becomes seen in multiple lights or avenues.
Let me attempt to deconstruct the enigma.
Artists deconstruct their composition, revisit the impact the song had on them personally, and dissect the socio-economic and cultural conditions that inspired the landmark work and gave voice to a generation.
In a bid to deconstruct for the youths, Cassidy and Schiff will open a scene, and then allow Quinn to pause for an account of how events from days ago led to this moment.
Make sure you have a tool to deconstruct your crab legs!
Once it’s all put up, I was always trying to deconstruct it to make it feel real and not choreographed.
Specialized workshops aim to deconstruct rape culture, discuss how to throw a responsible party and explore healthy and unhealthy relationships in the queer community.
We need work to further deconstruct the place of residual (and even sometimes overt) evolutionism in left thought.
But then when we try to deconstruct what we take to be Trump’s foreign policy, it seems that the president’s intuition and instincts, or the “following his guts,” explain major phenomena.
Deconstruct him immediately pic.
Deconstruct the folk story for our times and the theme feels eerily prescient.
Eric Fischl was very self-conscious of his sources, trying to deconstruct them, when he created “The Weight” in 1996, with the awkwardly posed nude carrying the symbolic weight of Western Civilization on her back.
Common combinations with deconstruct
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to deconstruct 20×
- deconstruct the 11×
- deconstruct their 3×
- deconstruct and 3×
- deconstruct it 2×
- deconstruct what 2×