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a state of disorder, confusion, or untidiness- When she lost her job, it threw their lives into disarray.
- his face unshaven, his clothes in disarray
- the disarray in the Palestinian territories
- It had been represented to them that the disarray into which society had been thrown by this deplorable affair made their presence in town more necessary than ever.Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
- But when I went up to my room, I found my jewelry box in disarray, and rushed back down just in time to see Chiyo handing something over to the man.Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha
- She didn't look eager to stop what she was doing, but she left her trunk in disarray and came out into the hallway with me.Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha
- When she did come back the following day, she smelled as if she had been sick to her stomach, and her hair was in disarray.Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha
- The room was in terrible disarray, because Hatsumomo had put things everywhere in her efforts at moving.Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha
- I looked around the floor at the piles of underclothing, bottles of perfume, and all the other things she'd scattered in disarray.Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Everything about him was in disarray, not only his gray hair, but his kimono, which looked as if he'd slept in it the night before.Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha
- But just as we slipped into our shoes, another young girl our age came rushing across the garden with her hair in disarray.Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha
- None of the women left their quilt patches in disarray to run to the house.Toni Morrison -- Sula
- CHAPTER 56 The disarray of the queendom didn't lend itself to pomp and circumstance, so Alyss kept her coronation ceremony short and to the point.Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars
- Maybe the universe was in disarray before, but now it's back in alignment.Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
- The whole of Brandon C thrown into disarray by Janice and Martin Webster.Sophie Kinsella -- Confessoins of a Shopaholic
- Nearly everything that he'd ever loved was gone now, or in disarray.James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
- On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- The arbor was vacant, and its floor, table, and circular bench were still damp, and bestrewn with twigs and the disarray of the past storm.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
- The skeletons crumpled into a disarray of bones.Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
- Bella remembered that her face was covered in soot, her hair was in total disarray, her shirtwaist was stained ash gray.Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising
disarray = with things out-of-place