Sample Sentences fordisoriented (editor-reviewed)
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She felt disoriented after waking up in the unfamiliar hospital room.disoriented = confused (without situational awareness)
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She was so disoriented by the sudden news of his departure that she couldn’t focus on the rest of the conversation.disoriented = unsettled
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Her sudden question left me disoriented and unsure how to answer.disoriented = unsettled and mentally confused
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After the maze, she felt disoriented and could not tell which way was north.disoriented = confused about direction
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I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway.disoriented = confused about location or direction
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Sick and disoriented, I'm able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life. (source)disoriented = confused
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Michael shrugged, disoriented, perplexed. (source)disoriented = confused
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In the end, it was probably his general disorientation that did them in.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Entering the Distracted Globe was more than a little disorienting. (source)disorienting = mentally confusing or unsettling
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I was too disorientated to work out where I was.† (source)
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If she wanted to disorient me, it had worked.† (source)
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I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that the cold disorients you and makes you think that down is up and up is down, so you may be swimming, swimming, swimming for your life in the wrong direction, all the way toward the bottom until you sink.† (source)
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Waking up was horrible, because for a disoriented moment I felt like everything was fine, and then it crushed me anew. (source)disoriented = mentally confused
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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)
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My words came slapping back at me in a disorienting echo.† (source)
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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)
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