Sentence examples for dispersed about from inspiring English sources

The protest was dispersed about 10 p.m. Fourteen people, including seven police officers, were injured, none of them seriously, the authorities said.

The workers dispersed about an hour after the police left and remained on strike.

It was hard not to wonder, as the crowd dispersed, about the role of poetry in today's fractious world.

Activists in the capital, Damascus, said plainclothes security officers forcefully dispersed about a dozen protesters who were calling for more freedoms.

The police dispersed about 50 protesters, mostly women, who were supporting the journalist, Lubna Hussein, a former United Nations worker facing 40 lashes on the charge of "indecent dressing".

The following simple proof of the law of large numbers is based on Chebyshev's inequality, which illustrates the sense in which the variance of a distribution measures how the distribution is dispersed about its mean.

Images aired by the Globo TV network showed riot police using tear gas and rubber truncheons to disperse about 50 demonstrators that tried to block the Radial Leste highway.

The police used a loudspeaker to announce that the plaza assembly was unlawful and ordered the crowd to disperse about 11 p.m. Soon afterwards, plumes of white smoke could be seen rising near Bigelow Boulevard and officers beating cadence on plastic shields with long batons marched down Forbes Avenue, driving back students, onlookers and journalists.

Jungle moss, sold in bricks, is good to disperse about too.

French peacekeeping troops were forced to fire tear gas to disperse about 500 rioters at the bridge.

Alice Holt Ryan, a great-granddaughter of Stephens's, is now dispersing about 20 Arden works that she inherited.