Sample Sentences for
disarray
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    She stares at her feet, where my pictures lie in disarray.  (source)
    disarray = a state of disorder
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    It was a whole new idea to her that people could live in such disarray, but at the same time she was charmed.  (source)
    disarray = a messy way
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    They divided into factions that sought to eradicate those qualities they believed responsible for the world's disarray.  (source)
    disarray = disordered mess
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    Number four: my movie stars are in a terrible disarray and are dying to be straightened out, but since it'll take several days to do that and Professor Anne is, as she's already said, up to her ears in work, they'll have to put up with the chaos a while longer.  (source)
    disarray = a state of disorder
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    She was disarrayed.†  (source)
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    It was such disarray, no one knew who to attack or defend, and people slipped through holes in the lines …. it was terrifying.  (source)
    disarray = disorderly confusion
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    Here ANNIE in her smoked glasses and disarrayed by travel is waiting with her suitcase, while JAMES walks to meet her; she has a battered paper-bound book, which is a Perkins report, under her arm.†  (source)
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    I am Colonel Bose's son, and not only are you rude but your uniforms are in disarray.  (source)
    disarray = in a state of disorder or untidiness
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    It was half-empty and the clothes were disarrayed and tumbled.†  (source)
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    I stumbled to my feet and saw the Hab in disarray.  (source)
    disarray = a messy state of disorder
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    And now it was like riding, to be rushing up Whitehall; and to each movement of the omnibus the beautiful body in the fawn-coloured coat responded freely like a rider, like the figure-head of a ship, for the breeze slightly disarrayed her; the heat gave her cheeks the pallor of white painted wood; and her fine eyes, having no eyes to meet, gazed ahead, blank, bright, with the staring incredible innocence of sculpture.†  (source)
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    He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray.  (source)
    disarray = disordered mess
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    Now she sat on the bed, her dress disarrayed, her hair tumbled, her eyes clouded.†  (source)
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