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  • After a while he halted, gasping and disoriented.†   (source)
  • This non sequitur disoriented Wang.†   (source)
  • You see, the Jewish refugees had been through terrible times; they were traumatized and disoriented by the loss of their homes and families.†   (source)
  • It was as if his memory loss had stolen a chunk of his language—it was disorienting.†   (source)
  • In the emergency room, she was shocked by the disoriented man before her.†   (source)
  • Entering the Distracted Globe was more than a little disorienting.†   (source)
  • Sophie felt a new wave of disorientation as she stood in the silence of the ballroom and stared at Robert Langdon.†   (source)
  • Disorientation Room One.†   (source)
  • He regained consciousness coated in the blood of his fellow soldiers; he was disoriented and unable to move.†   (source)
  • Looking breathless and disorientated, he spun on the spot, goggling upward at the emerald-green skull.†   (source)
  • I was too disorientated to work out where I was.†   (source)
  • Thanks to you children, this machine is disoriented, and I must strike while the iron's hot.†   (source)
  • "Starving and completely disoriented," he told my mother.†   (source)
  • The boar's severed right tusk fell at my feet, while the disoriented animal charged into the sea.†   (source)
  • "Ugh," Lex said, "Imbalance, disorientation, labored breathing, and massive diarrhea," Harding said.†   (source)
  • Disoriented and uncertain, we continued to drift around the Briinnlitz camp for two days.†   (source)
  • I was disoriented by the array of unfamiliar goods arrayed about.†   (source)
  • The only thing all the intended disorientation had accomplished was to familiarize her with the building.†   (source)
  • She stumbles around for a while, disoriented, then charges forward, only to trip and fall to her knees.†   (source)
  • Anyway, Dan Needham and my grandmother agreed that it would be better for me to spend the night at 80 Front Street, and so—in addition to the disorientation of waking up the next morning, after very little sleep, and gradually realizing that the dream of my mother being killed by a baseball that Owen Meany hit was not a dream—I faced the further disorientation of not immediately knowing where I was.†   (source)
  • She hopes she has not become disoriented.†   (source)
  • I'm completely blind and disoriented, but I think these might be the same stairs I came down when I first got here.†   (source)
  • She had been disorientated, of course.†   (source)
  • My words came slapping back at me in a disorienting echo.†   (source)
  • Instead they were overwhelming, disorienting expeditions, either going to Calcutta, or sightseeing in places they did not belong to and intended never to see again.†   (source)
  • St. Clair looks disoriented.†   (source)
  • Richie wasn't much bigger than Park, and he was drunk and disoriented.†   (source)
  • But I had seen nothing at all, felt nothing but sickness and disorientation.†   (source)
  • I considered hunting through the book for what happened to his daughter, but I was already so disoriented, I decided against it.†   (source)
  • Two days later, Henrietta awoke terrified, disoriented, wanting to know where she was and what the doctors had been doing to her.†   (source)
  • They say that weightlessness can cause disorientation, especially in children, whose sense of direction isn't yet secure.†   (source)
  • "Charity work," I said, after a disoriented pause.†   (source)
  • Nine climbers reached the summit, but seven of them were caught by a storm on the descent, became disoriented, and spent a night in the open at 19,400 feet, initiating a costly, hazardous rescue by the National Park Service.†   (source)
  • Phase One: preoccupation; difficulty focusing; dry mouth; perspiration, sweaty palms; dizziness and disorientation.†   (source)
  • Hit 'em with smoke and sonics, then go in while the targets were disoriented.†   (source)
  • It was odd and disorienting to be back at home, and I felt on edge, just like the last time I took leave.†   (source)
  • Cold air slapped me and disoriented my body and mind.†   (source)
  • I was disoriented, as though my world were blurred and leaning to the left, like a photograph snapped from a twisted angle and out of focus.†   (source)
  • Disoriented and confused, he let his eyes roam over the small room.†   (source)
  • For a moment I was disoriented: where was Runaway?†   (source)
  • Even through the disorientation of fugue state, he now remembered the painful therapy sessions, the long hours in the RNA virus baths, and the surgery.†   (source)
  • I looked at his concerned, innocent expression and was disoriented again by the force of his gold-colored eyes.†   (source)
  • Very disorienting for our enemy.†   (source)
  • In the end, it was probably his general disorientation that did them in.†   (source)
  • One cold, dark morning in the middle of winter, Kenny became disoriented while driving.†   (source)
  • He was totally disoriented.†   (source)
  • A strangeness gripped me, a sense of psychic disorientation.†   (source)
  • Scatty took advantage of its disorientation and moved in again, feet and hands striking blows from all angles, further confusing the creature.†   (source)
  • No. First it was disorienting.†   (source)
  • Did they get dizzy, disoriented, nauseated?†   (source)
  • Now he stood stunned and disorientated outside the studio.†   (source)
  • I understand how disorienting all this must be for you, Mack.†   (source)
  • While the tablet still works, he seems less bewildered by the feeling of disorientation.†   (source)
  • How I wandered aimlessly about, too disoriented for proper panic, numb with shock and dread.†   (source)
  • Mental illness was on public display, and in the army of lost souls, Karr saw some of the same anger and disorientation he was seeing in Nathaniel.†   (source)
  • I am so disoriented I could never find my way back.†   (source)
  • We picked him up a few hours ago, walking down River Road, disoriented.†   (source)
  • But when he began to wait for the answer to his first letter, his anguish was complicated by diarrhea and green vomit, he became disoriented and suffered from sudden fainting spells, and his mother was terrified because his condition did not resemble the turmoil of love so much as the devastation of cholera.†   (source)
  • He looks around, disoriented.†   (source)
  • What I didn't know at the time was that something pretty significant had happened only a few days after I'd seen her in Room 22—something between Miss Lucy and Tommy that had left him upset and disorientated.†   (source)
  • It was possible on such a night to become as disoriented as a man without a torch in a cave.†   (source)
  • I was so shocked to see the Chairman in pain that I felt almost disoriented for a moment.†   (source)
  • Disoriented, she had no idea which direction to run.†   (source)
  • Dan blinked, disoriented.†   (source)
  • He could not remember if he had lost consciousness, but he was disoriented.†   (source)
  • The system exhibits occasional disorientation, but it moves steadily forward, step by step.†   (source)
  • He is alert to what is happening around him, and he shows no sign of mental confusion or disorientation.†   (source)
  • Instead, though, she found herself feeling disoriented when Patrick wasn't around, like the sailor who's just landed after months at sea and who still feels the ocean rolling beneath him even when it isn't there.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, I thought, he was as confused and disoriented as I. He made sporadic attempts to help me adjust.†   (source)
  • I use his disorientation to my advantage and kick him in the side.†   (source)
  • It was greatly disorienting to be uprooted so suddenly and without explanation.†   (source)
  • I'm wedged a good deal farther between the rolls of canvas than I was when I fell asleep, and I'm disoriented.†   (source)
  • Whatever, I was completely disoriented.†   (source)
  • I pull out of the crowds, suddenly disoriented.†   (source)
  • Even when you do regain consciousness you are in a state of disorientation for days.†   (source)
  • Instead of merely lying in bed in a passive state, he became disoriented and angry and refused to take medicine.†   (source)
  • Bleary-eyed and disoriented, they met the IRC caseworker at the airport.†   (source)
  • Completely disoriented I tried to catch myself, but all of my reflexes were off.†   (source)
  • Other girls at Thurmond could pick themselves up after a few minutes, shaking off the nausea and disorientation like the loose grass clinging to their camp uniforms.†   (source)
  • It was disorienting to see suburban Connecticut rushing by, eventually giving way to the highway.†   (source)
  • I'd woken up several times disoriented in the prison, and I automatically stifled my first thrash of surprise to prevent my chains from grinding on old bruises, and finally I remembered that there were no chains.†   (source)
  • Dixon sprang up, not hurt by the fall, but disoriented.†   (source)
  • Akku Yadav strutted in, confident and unrepentant, sensing that the women were disoriented in the grand setting of the courtroom.†   (source)
  • I felt disoriented.†   (source)
  • Assuming that Adam was either visually disoriented from blood in his mask or mentally disoriented from loss of blood, they yanked on the line and tried to redirect him to the boat.†   (source)
  • I felt disoriented.†   (source)
  • He wiped his eyes with his sleeve, disoriented by unfamiliar tears, and attributed them to the altitude.†   (source)
  • Drunk and disoriented, he had abandoned the car and tried to walk back to the safety of the house.†   (source)
  • 0800 on May 8th 1981, she appeared to be disoriented about the facts of the incident and disconcerted as she kept dozing off.†   (source)
  • Nicholas Jenks crawled out of the van, dazed and disoriented.†   (source)
  • Reece's expression changed—she looked confused, almost disoriented.†   (source)
  • He seems disoriented, but a moment later he's clearly not.†   (source)
  • If she wanted to disorient me, it had worked.†   (source)
  • I find the monolithic nature of it disorienting.†   (source)
  • He stood and began to pace, ignoring a sudden whirl of disorientation.†   (source)
  • He described his boss as being disoriented and erratic.†   (source)
  • I was cold in my pajamas and jacket, disoriented, and out of breath by the time the ground beneath my feet got more smooth and stable.†   (source)
  • A Close Shave Francisco Aguilar rose the next morning somewhat disoriented.†   (source)
  • I closed my eyes, felt the disorientation of not being able to see through other eyes that I knew I had once had.†   (source)
  • They were disillusioned, disoriented, and not a little resentful.†   (source)
  • Bourne spastically whipped his body around and sprang off the couch, at first disoriented, unsure of where he was and for a terrible moment … of who he was.†   (source)
  • Celia's hands flutter like disoriented birds.†   (source)
  • Disoriented, he answered only by shaking his head.†   (source)
  • The captain was confused and disoriented as he climbed on board the Bainbridge.†   (source)
  • After weeks of travel in the gray and wintry wild, the house's color and warmth were almost disorienting.†   (source)
  • Then again, it was a disorienting place -- a large, concrete, single-story complex of buildings joined by open-air corridors and crisscrossed by hallways.†   (source)
  • When Miri opened her eyes she saw feet, dozens of feet, and at first she was so disoriented she didn't know where she was.†   (source)
  • The shouts of cadremen rang through the hall, and the plebes, bovine and disoriented, moved without animation in a blind, stunned herd toward their seats.†   (source)
  • A man might find himself disoriented and see things that are not there.†   (source)
  • Someone was flicking on and off the hall and living room lights, and the effect was maddening and disorienting.†   (source)
  • The attorney Giuliani, disoriented but wise, nodded and tried to turn in bed.†   (source)
  • You're completely disoriented."†   (source)
  • And disoriented, battered by the force of the drop and dizzied by the blast of dust, they were immediately cut down by the waiting dwarves.†   (source)
  • It was amazing how quickly I became disoriented, my hands stretched out, expecting to find the chenille bedspread, to touch its rough nubby knots, and striking only air.†   (source)
  • Completely disoriented now, she rubbed her eyes clear.†   (source)
  • Alan felt feeble, dizzy, disoriented.†   (source)
  • With each appearance the young Jordanian was more skittish, more disoriented.†   (source)
  • One day he'd walked by, and there they were — a girl, her parents, an assistant, looking disoriented and somehow ragged around the edges, as though they'd been torn out of a book.†   (source)
  • My feeling of disorientation diminished for a time.†   (source)
  • She found herself both warmed and distressed by this callow, transfixed infatuation and could really respond only to the poetry, for besides being, at twenty or so, at least ten years younger than she was, he was also physically unappealing—that is, enormously overweight aside from his grotesquely disoriented eyes.†   (source)
  • When she calls again he has a momentary sense of disorientation, cannot think what room he's sitting in, and so understands that he must have dropped off there, for a minute.†   (source)
  • Disoriented—a feeling new to me and very unpleasant.†   (source)
  • the anesthetic left her completely disoriented
  • Langdon seemed uncharacteristically disorientated.†   (source)
  • Speaking to a living Illuminatus was disorienting for him …. like speaking to George Washington.†   (source)
  • That was how I felt, disoriented, suspended in confusion, stripped of my compass.†   (source)
  • He was still a little disoriented, but things seemed to be in places they shouldn't be.†   (source)
  • She looked disoriented, twisting her wet handkerchief in her hands.†   (source)
  • She was underwater, so disoriented that she didn't know which way was up.†   (source)
  • I blame my disorientation for what happened next.†   (source)
  • The effect was so disorienting, I had to look away.†   (source)
  • Then the drowsiness, the frightening disorientation, the incoherent mumbling.†   (source)
  • Dizziness disoriented me, allowing me only to whisper, "Andromeda."†   (source)
  • The kids shepherding them count heads and try to maintain order in the disoriented group.†   (source)
  • Being bodiless was disorienting, uncomfortable, horrifying.†   (source)
  • The more I thought about it, the more disoriented and provoked I became.†   (source)
  • Spinning disoriented somersaults, he groped the sheer walls that enclosed him on all sides.†   (source)
  • That's perfectly normal, the postsurgical state is always disorienting.†   (source)
  • Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads mentally disoriented around and around my wrist.†   (source)
  • At some disoriented point, I said: "Boris, shut up.†   (source)
  • I felt a little disoriented by this smiling white Zimbabwean with the odd accent and strange name.†   (source)
  • Evil ones bring disorientation and a variety of physical and emotional ills.†   (source)
  • I followed his gaze, disoriented by the spinning, but finally I could see what was bothering him.†   (source)
  • But Ender was disoriented before he left Earth's gravity.†   (source)
  • The days of sleep had left him disoriented… and yet his mind felt oddly lucid.†   (source)
  • The noise in the house was disorienting, so I took Drew up the mountain.†   (source)
  • All I could think about was Denna waking alone, aching, thirsty, and disoriented.†   (source)
  • Instantly, it folded and twisted in on itself and became a disorientated hermit thrush.†   (source)
  • Sliced and batted by his sabers, they became disorientated.†   (source)
  • The plague arrow did not make me pass out, but its fumes were disorienting.†   (source)
  • A ray of light glares into my eyes, and I squint, disoriented.†   (source)
  • I wanted to strangle her, except I was dripping wet, shivering, and still disoriented.†   (source)
  • Within hours of her call to Crownsville, Deborah became disoriented and had trouble breathing.†   (source)
  • As I thought of the field hand, I felt strangely disoriented.†   (source)
  • Just enough to weaken Sardothien—to make her dizzy and disoriented.†   (source)
  • Axe arrived in one piece, stunned and disoriented.†   (source)
  • After weeks of endless openness, he was disoriented by the compression of the space around him.†   (source)
  • After all, disorientation was the entire purpose of this technology.†   (source)
  • Michael shrugged, disoriented, perplexed.†   (source)
  • Huddling in corners, disoriented, crying every hour, not trusting anybody, refusing to do anything.†   (source)
  • That was where the disorientation began.†   (source)
  • Langdon looked up at the towering monuments and felt totally disoriented.†   (source)
  • The Golem stopped, confused and disorientated.†   (source)
  • Caught in the cross fire are the refugees, unarmed, disoriented, many wounded.†   (source)
  • Disorientation in full force, I pulled down my sleeves.†   (source)
  • Even consuming just a little could cause vivid hallucinations and disorientation.†   (source)
  • She turned her head, looking disorientated and confused.†   (source)
  • She seemed strangely disoriented—something fixed and distracted about the eyes.†   (source)
  • I glanced, disoriented, at the clock on my dresser.†   (source)
  • When I woke up, there was no disorientation.†   (source)
  • I looked through the crevice, and the view was almost as disorienting as being a storm cloud.†   (source)
  • They must have given her enough to disorient her, but not enough that it would be easy to prove.†   (source)
  • The lights go out and I experience the disorientation of total darkness.†   (source)
  • "Hello there, dear," he said to me—the dear startling, from him, even in my disoriented state.†   (source)
  • With a rising fury of disorientation and rage, Langdon got off the table and stood on shaky legs.†   (source)
  • At best, it caused hallucinations and disorientation.†   (source)
  • Private school I said, after a disoriented pause.†   (source)
  • At first, disoriented from the ticket window, I thought I was hallucinating the voice.†   (source)
  • I said, glancing up, disoriented by the vicious new possibility I'd stumbled into.†   (source)
  • Beyond the cracked windshield, the snow continues to fall, blurry and disorienting.†   (source)
  • The disoriented monster stumbled backward but was too slow.†   (source)
  • She seemed disoriented, but her smile when she saw him told him everything he needed to know.†   (source)
  • He got disoriented sometimes by the tilted Jell-O desserts.†   (source)
  • Again, as I described the unity, I felt the dragging sense of panic and disorientation.†   (source)
  • She woke in the dark, completely disoriented and starving.†   (source)
  • He was tired, and was beginning to feel disoriented.†   (source)
  • When Max regained consciousness, he was steeped in a darkness so black that it was disorienting.†   (source)
  • Not that he'd forgotten any of the details, but he'd felt a bit disoriented thus far.†   (source)
  • When I got to my room, I flung myself into bed, feeling disoriented.†   (source)
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