chaos

in a sentence

The nurse steered him down a back corridor to the emergency room, where Roy was relieved to find no chaos or carnage.  (source) Carl Hiassen, Hoot, 2002

once the bugger war is over, and maybe even before it ends, the world will collapse into chaos again.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

Compared with the chaos of Cherry Hill, Northwood was a paradise of neat houses with fastidiously maintained lawns.  (source) Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore, 2010

In the utter chaos that followed, it was all people could do to make it back to their homes alive.  (source) Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, 2009

The room is chaotic for a while—people rushing in and rushing out again... —but gradually everything gets quieter,  (source) Veronica Roth, Insurgent, 2012

Zohreh or Majid guided the car through incredible traffic jams, compounded by pedestrians willing to gamble their shabby lives and children who darted chaotically across crowded streets.†  (source) Betty Mahmoody, Not Without My Daughter, 1989

All around us was chaos.  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005

She paused, as if trying to organize her chaotic thoughts.  (source) Nicholas Sparks, Dear John, 2006

Instead, it sprang up to a gale which now and then, from a tattered sky, flung pale sweeps of sunlight over a landscape chaotically tossed.†  (source) Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, 1911

Langdon could now hear the sounds of chaos to his left.  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

The chaotic unplanned life of the patient at present with...  (source) Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted, 1993

A line of police was strung out right across the entire width of the street, including the pavements, shooting chaotically and at random into the fleeing crowd.†  (source) Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist, 1998

And there was nothing but chaos.  (source) Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying, 1993