disarray

How To Use disarray In A Sentence

• Our plans were thrown into disarray by her arrival.
• She waited to tell him of her decision until the main doors of the school opened, as if to greet them, and the girls streamed through in varying degrees of sullenness and exultation and prettiness and slouching disarray.
• Furniture and papers were all jumbled together in disarray.
• I'd anticipated him working inside a Back-To-The-Future kind of laboratory with bubbling beakers, coiled yellow electrical wire, and a suffocating sense of disarray.
• Ever since the oil crisis, the industry has been in disarray.
• During the National Civic Virtues Month, all the cities should and banish disarray and discourtesy.
• You know what I mean - the big stack, lying there, staring at you, their disarrayed spines accusing you ... make them stop! Jilly Gagnon: Those Books You REALLY Mean to Get Around to Reading...No, REALLY
• When Kevin returns home unexpectedly the calm of rural life is thrown into disarray.
• Her dark hair was disarrayed in all directions about her head, and her icy blue eyes leered up at me from beneath a veil of hair.
• Yesterday, as our correspondent's account made clear, an ad hoc motorised cavalry of scores of youth fighters on pick-up trucks charged at Ajdabiya, only to retreat in disarray when Gaddafi's tanks, which were dug in around the town, fired back. Libya: Moving targets | Editorial