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Example sentences for "disarray"

Lexicographically close words:
disarms; disarrange; disarranged; disarrangement; disarranging; disarrayed; disarticulated; disarticulation; disassembled; disassociate
  1. She stood leaning a little forward on the rock slab, her dress only a little below her knees, and as she leaned thus, her eyes flashing and her lips parted, the wind had flung a wonderful disarray of curls over her shoulder and breast.

  2. As she stood there, in the flood of June sunshine, beside the attractive disarray of the pretty breakfast-table, she was aware of a horrible sense of helplessness, of alarm and impotence.

  3. All became a scene of disarray and confusion, as if a general battle had been taking place around her.

  4. His mental disarray is patent not merely from his disorders of motility, but in the unmethodical and changeable habits of his everyday life.

  5. Akin to the conditions we have been enumerating is an exaggerated love of order, somewhat unexpected in those whose mental disarray is often extreme.

  6. On his head he wore a jewelled cap of crimson velvet, from under which the glossy waves of his long fair hair fell down in some disarray upon his shoulders.

  7. Five or six chargers instantly went down, and others, furious with pain, reeled and plunged, spreading disarray around.

  8. He slipped a cushion under the false disarray of the armchair, then he made roaring fires to have the rooms good and warm when she came.

  9. That explains your spiritual disarray of the last few months and your immediate recovery as soon as you stumbled onto Giles de Rais.

  10. Turning her head this way and that, she attended to the disarray due to her haste in dressing perhaps, as well as to her rush for the train.

  11. The whole body wound slowly on with very little disarray Of confusion, till, one by one, the several bands turned the angle of the wood, and disappeared in the distant forest.

  12. LXXIX "Besides that she infests the public way, Which else were free; she often ranging through All this fair garden, puts in disarray This thing or that.

  13. He was full upon his back, his broad chest heaving in the gray cotton undershirt, his mouth wide open with its upper fringe of hair in disarray and agitated by his breath.

  14. All this swept through her mind as she went to and fro in that blue clearness of the morning which swept down upon her from the skies over all the weariness and disarray of the night.

  15. She did not even extinguish the candles, but left them there amid all the disarray of the table, the scattered papers, covered with notes and figures.

  16. The disarray of human instincts lets every spontaneous motion run too far; life oscillates between constraint and unreason.

  17. In the actual disarray of human life and desire, wisdom consists in knowing what goods to sacrifice and what simples to pour into the supreme mixture.

  18. The disarray of intuitive ethics is made painfully clear in the conflicts which it involves when it has fostered two incompatible growths in two centres which lie near enough to each other to come into physical collision.

  19. His hair, gray as the underwing of the owl whose note he forged, straggled in uncut disarray from under the drooping rim of a battered and weatherworn hat.

  20. Laughing joyously, he went to her and gathered the soft masses of her hair in his hands, and piled it up in a glorious disarray about her face and head, holding it there, and still laughing into her eyes.

  21. A deadfall is a contrivance that is not in keeping with the usual fortuitous disarray of sticks and stones in the fields and woods.

  22. To the fox, as to the crow, anything that looks like design or a trap, anything that does not match with the haphazard look and general disarray of objects in nature, will put it on its guard.

  23. Perhaps the confusion and disarray was partly due to the market-day rush, but the grime and dirt that prevailed everywhere seemed as ancient as the ramshackle old house itself.

  24. There was a little disarray and confusion at the pleasant New Inn--new in name only--evidently due to more patronage than could easily be taken care of.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disarray" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    clutter; confusion; derange; derangement; disarrange; disarrangement; disarray; discomfiture; discompose; discomposure; disharmony; disintegration; disjoint; disjunction; dislocate; dismantle; disorder; disorganization; disorganize; disproportion; disrupt; disruption; distemper; disturb; disturbance; entropy; huddle; irregularity; jumble; litter; mess; mix; muddle; muss; perturbation; promiscuity; ruffle; rummage; rumple; scatter; shuffle; snarl; strip; topple; turbulence; undress; unsettle; upset