DISORDER in a Sentence

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These beings had been fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and loaded hap-hazard on those carts.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISORDER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
disorder
 n.  neglect of order or system; irregularity; disturbance or sickness
Classic Sentence: (124 in 9 pages)
1  No trace of the disorder of the night before last remained.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
2  In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
3  The first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope had been cut.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
4  She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists clenched and drawn back.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE
5  These beings had been fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and loaded hap-hazard on those carts.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
6  The National Guards of the suburbs rushed up in haste and disorder.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
7  Everything is in disorder, the star as well as the drama.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
8  The assailants, abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder towards the extremity of the street, and there were again lost in the night.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV—THE BARREL OF POWDER
9  The long, underground journey had completed the dislocation of the broken collar-bone, and the disorder there was serious.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER
10  The drawing-room, as we have just said, was in great disorder.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
11  They saw only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were still swollen with sleep.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
12  D'Artagnan even fancied he could recognize amid this strange disorder, fragments of garments, and some bloody spots staining the cloth and the curtains.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 24 THE PAVILION
13  Motionless against the dark tapestry, with her hair in disorder, she appeared like a horrid image of terror.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 45 A CONJUGAL SCENE
14  Milady felt a consolation in seeing nature partake of the disorder of her heart.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 58 ESCAPE
15  My brother, who made you his heir, died in three hours of a strange disorder which left livid traces all over the body.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 65 TRIAL
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  Amid indications of growing disorder in the capital, the president is to make a speech on television tonight.
2  The country was thrown into disorder by the strikes.
3  His financial affairs were in complete disorder.
4  The disorder in military policy had its origins in Truman's first term.
5  The term'alexia'is used to refer to any acquired disorder of reading.
6  Too rich a diet will disorder his digestive.
7  The room was in a state of disorder.
8  The opposition party have been in such disorder for so long that they pose no real threat to the present government.
9  The room is in dreadful disorder, you have no chance to find that box.
10  Anti-social behavior covers incidents such as rowdy and inconsiderate behavior, nuisance neighbors, drinking in the street, littering, abandoned cars and youth disorder.
11  It's fairly well known that "light therapy" is sometimes used to help those suffering from depression, especially seasonal affective disorder.
12  These are genetic disorders that only affect males normally.
13  This treatment may be the way forward for many inherited disorders.
14  Mental disorders, drug use and hypnosis can all cause people to hallucinate.
15  Psychological problems very often underlie apparently physical disorders.