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Definition a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  • The country entered a period of civil war and chaos.
chaos = a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  • Everyone ran around trying to help, but there was no organization and little was accomplished in the chaos.
    • chaos = confusion or disorder
  • The entire front row of Union soldiers falls in bloody chaos.
    Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard  --  Killing Lincoln
    • chaos = a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  • When it came to spreading chaos and destruction, dragons were without equal.
    Christopher Paolini  --  Inheritance
    • chaos = a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  • he could think of no way of bringing peace and order to this chaos.
    Franz Kafka  --  Metamorphosis
    • chaos = a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  • In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped.
    Jane Yolen  --  The Devils Arithmetic
    • chaos = extreme confusion and disorder
  • I woke up to chaos, to sailboats in trees, to shredded houses and ruined lives.
    Rick Bragg  --  All Over but the Shoutin'
    • chaos = a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  • She paused, as if trying to organize her chaotic thoughts.
    Nicholas Sparks  --  Dear John
    • chaotic = confused and disordered
  • She was hearing reports of unchecked violence, widespread chaos, thousands presumed dead.
    Dave Eggers  --  Zeitoun
    • chaos = a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  • The room is chaotic for a while—people rushing in and rushing out again... —but gradually everything gets quieter,
    Veronica Roth  --  Insurgent
    • chaotic = confused and disordered
  • Everything broke into chaos, with dozens of people asking questions until Annabeth raised her arms.
    Rick Riordan  --  The Lost Hero
    • chaos = a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  • But he had only a couple of boxes of .22's, and he guessed that the .22's might be the most useful weapons he owned, if economic chaos lasted for a long time, a meat shortage developed, and it became necessary to hunt small game.
    Pat Frank  --  Alas, Babylon
    • chaos = a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  • In the utter chaos that followed, it was all people could do to make it back to their homes alive.
    Suzanne Collins  --  Catching Fire
    • chaos = extreme confusion and disorder
  • But I wasn't sure anyone could hear her over the screeching of the birds and the general chaos.
    Rick Riordan  --  The Sea of Monsters
    • chaos = a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  • The battlefield descended into absolute chaos.
    Rick Riordan  --  The Son of Neptune
    • chaos = a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  • By this time there was chaos on the mountain.
    Marcus Luttrell  --  Lone Survivor
    • chaos = a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  • This was chaos, a melee of shouting and movement, and the landscape wasn't flat but a mass of mud and blood churned into a thick, unstable paste.
    Cassandra Clare  --  City of Glass
    • chaos = a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  • Langdon could now hear the sounds of chaos to his left.
    Dan Brown  --  Angels & Demons
    • chaos = extreme confusion and disorder
  • Still, I was grateful for the day and the chaos, if only because it kept my mind off what had happened the day before with Nate.
    Sarah Dessen  --  Lock and Key
    • chaos = extreme confusion and disorder
  • The camp was a chaos of smoke and running figures.
    Scott Westerfeld  --  Uglies
chaos = a state of extreme confusion and disorder

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