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Example sentences for "dislocating"

Lexicographically close words:
dislikes; disliking; dislikings; dislocate; dislocated; dislocation; dislocations; dislodge; dislodged; dislodges
  1. He did repeat it, but struck on his head, dislocating his neck, and death resulted a few hours afterward.

  2. We have observed one such case in a professional cyclist in whom this capacity of partially dislocating the knee entailed no disability.

  3. Acrobats sometimes acquire the power of dislocating certain joints by voluntary contraction of their muscles.

  4. When he got to the sixth line, a shell exploded in front of him, hitting him in the thigh and dislocating his hip bone, besides giving him a painful flesh wound.

  5. Luckily the weight of the gun did not fall on me in its entirety; if it had, I would not be telling this story; it caught me on the hip, dislocating the hip bone.

  6. Yet the decision was dislocating to all his thought, even as the struggle had been.

  7. From regions celestial to regions terrestrial she had been hurried with rather dislocating suddenness.

  8. This fact is important, as showing how masses of drift ice, when stranding on submarine banks, may exert a lateral pressure capable of bending and dislocating any yielding strata of gravel, sand, or mud.

  9. One cannot for a moment doubt the advantages of such a policy as a safeguard against violent dislocating shocks to industry.

  10. One cannot for a moment doubt the advantages of a protective policy on the part of railways; safe-guarding industry against violent dislocating shocks.

  11. Ordinary springs, besides dislocating the joints of the passengers, would be wrenched and broken after a few miles travelling.

  12. Till her little ones were two weeks old, the devoted if apparently ungentle parent continued to feed them at intervals of thirty minutes, the neck-dislocating performance being always as violent as I have described.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dislocating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.