How To Use Disarray In A Sentence
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Our plans were thrown into disarray by her arrival.
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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.
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Furniture and papers were all jumbled together in disarray.
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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.
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Ever since the oil crisis, the industry has been in disarray.
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During the National Civic Virtues Month, all the cities should and banish disarray and discourtesy.
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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
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When Kevin returns home unexpectedly the calm of rural life is thrown into disarray.
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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.
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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
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Man-of-the-match Hill snatched four quick wickets as the home side found themselves in disarray on 47-6.
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Many sufferers find that their illness throws their sleep patterns into total disarray, and they have continually to adjust their lifestyles to cope with irregular sleep needs.
M.E. and You - a self-help plan
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And quite frankly, I enjoy ignoring my own untended messes in order to help others clean theirs, leaving my own life in occasional (okay, steady) disarray.
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The Gunners defence is in total disarray as the tie slips away.
The Sun
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She ran a hand through her frizzy, disarrayed mane, a grin slowly appearing on her lips.
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It is a League which is in complete disarray.
The Sun
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His blonde hair was disarrayed and his spectacles hung off his nose.
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The good and the bad parts of our lives do not interlock with reassuring neatness across the course of a lifetime; instead they sit together in heterogeneous disarray, elbowing one another like distant ancestors told to bunch up tight for a family photograph.
On Reading Zen « Tales from the Reading Room
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He was dishevelled, unshaven, his comb-over in disarray, and clouds of whiskey-fumes rose in a steady haze from between his chapped lips.
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But, in the space of 48 hours, what sounded on Sunday like an imminent threat to financial targets in New York, New Jersey and Washington has metamorphosed into an imbroglio of disarray and confusion, with a dash of farce thrown in.
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The mother was dressed as her kind are wont to be on Sunday morning - that is to say, not dressed at all, but hung about with coarse garments, her hair in unbeautiful disarray.
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She looked gorgeous even now, her auburn hair slightly disarrayed around her face, less makeup on than normal.
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It is set in a dancing school, which opens with a scene of disarray (music and chairs scattered around).
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Now, I will photograph the tree in its demise, upended in swart disarray.
The Tree is Farther to the Man
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Many sufferers find that their illness throws their sleep patterns into total disarray, and they have continually to adjust their lifestyles to cope with irregular sleep needs.
M.E. and You - a self-help plan
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English football is in total disarray and I find this whole mess amazing.
The Sun
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The nation is in disarray following rioting led by the military.
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Gabriel stared at him, his hair disarrayed, his green eyes brilliant with rage.
Clockwork Angel
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Too, she likes the disarray of rehearsal clothes - wrapped sweaters, sagging leg warmers, torn practice tutus.
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But then he gets the call about his dad's unexpected death and it throws him into complete disarray.
The Sun
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All the queeny boys who had done their hair just right and hadn't brought their new raincoats had to laugh off their disarray in the coffee house.
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She likes the disarray of rehearsal clothes - wrapped sweaters, sagging leg warmers, torn practice tutus.
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And that in turn implies a general disarray in the Brown chancellorship.
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The Democratic Party was in disarray as a brutal primary season approached its end.
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Our residence in Baker Street had the reputation of being cluttered and in disarray, so perhaps he thought this was its normal appearance.
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Pronounced lobular hepatocyte disarray and sinusoidal lymphocytic inflammation were also evident.
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I know I might've looked a little unnerving, with my messy ponytail, slightly flushed cheeks from jogging and somewhat disarrayed clothes, but I was told I had a really friendly face!
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The complete disarray of the opposition parties leaves the field clear for the government to implement urgent reforms.
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The scene inside the ship was one of disarray - floor, wall and ceiling panels were loose all over the ship, exposing circuitry and metres of cable spilling out into the corridors.
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But in that sleepy disarray, I had conjured up something else.
ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
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He studied the uncontrolled panic on his pale, hawk-nosed face and caught a glimpse of his disarrayed dark hair as he sped towards himself.
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He had coincidentally just fallen off his seat, so after an amazing start we were in quite some disarray.
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It was the wanting that had him at times in total disarray.
Times, Sunday Times
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English football is in total disarray and I find this whole mess amazing.
The Sun
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Perhaps in people with a genetic predisposition, the trigger sends the immune system into permanent overdrive and disarray.
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But their cult is now in disarray, and the best writing of the moment has repudiated useless dogmas in favor of the fundamentals of storytelling.
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The president's cable cadre is in disarray as well.
August 2005
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The playing side was in complete disarray.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even at the best of times fighting in the ranks can cause disarray and confusion in the army.
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Now they are in total disarray and move from place to place in the forest.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Gunners defence is in total disarray as the tie slips away.
The Sun
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The room was in general disarray with rubbish strewn all over the floor.
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Two of the problems that you mention, are lack of a GA that does the focussing job of RP, and the disarray of phonetic, alphabetic and diacritic systems used by different US publishers in their dictionaries.
P is for Phonemic Chart « An A-Z of ELT
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He creaked to his knees and gathered them up, fetched some yellow glue and elastic bands from the kitchen drawer and, at his desk, stuck the disarrayed pages back together.
Two Poets
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_A Prospect of Society_ before it became evident to me (1) that the lines were not "unarranged," but disarranged; and (2) that whatever the reason of this disarray, Goldsmith's brain was not responsible; that the disorder was too insane to be accepted either as an order in which he could have written the poem, or as one in which he could have wittingly allowed it to circulate among his friends, unless he desired them to believe him mad.
From a Cornish Window A New Edition
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Up north, the Yankees are in disarray as former scions of industry go on trial and the stock market does a passable impersonation of a weapon of mass destruction.
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The growing tide of abstentions and protest votes for the extreme right and the extreme left are other signs of disarray and dismay.
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In the midday sun the flooded paddies formed a mirrored mosaic across which tropical clouds scudded in fragmented disarray.
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He was disarrayed, confused, lost, and on the brink of an utter mental breakdown.
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The Poles retreated to the Vistula, but Pilsudski succeeded in flanking the Soviets in August 1920 and forcing the Red Army to retreat in disarray.
Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
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His personal life fell into disarray when his wife left him.
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What we're watching is the long-running victory of ballet itself over that pettiness and disarray known as being human.
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The REAL reason they started positioning their army units horizontally is that they are uncoordinated schlemiels, who keep bumping into the table the board is on, knocking the pieces into disarray.
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Their point guard situation is in disarray, which is certainly not what you want as you enter the NCAA tournament.
USATODAY.com - NCAA West Region
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It is a scenario few could have imagined with the Aussies going into the match in total disarray.
The Sun
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The danger now of instructing inexperienced barristers in complex serious cases could manifest itself in injustices, and indeed the system crumbling into disarray.
Times, Sunday Times
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The department had been in a state of financial disarray for at least four years, and possibly longer.
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The complete disarray of the opposition parties leaves the field clear for the government to implement urgent reforms.
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Others were wondering whether it was a 'mamaguy' designed to throw the opposition forces in disarray.
TrinidadExpress Today's News
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Melissa was flustered in her ladylike terror of being come upon uncovered in those disarraying exertions of vigorous sexual informalities and, blushing, wished him, for a change, to finish fast; but she laughed when he did and disclosed the ruse as she was checking his baggage for his medicines and preparing to ride with him to the airport before his flight to Kenosha at the start of his journey.
Closing Time
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Will they build up into still broader disarray and eventually move our planet out of its orbit around the sun?
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Now they are in total disarray and move from place to place in the forest.
Times, Sunday Times
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The modernisers are in total disarray.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the arrival of a former wife of one of the group and a one-time opera diva throws their plans into disarray.
Times, Sunday Times
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A new documentary offers a fascinating glimpse inside a Dean campaign in disarray at a critical moment.
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We compare that achievement to the National Party, which is in total and utter disarray.
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The unchanging set, a disarray of metal, lights, tables, fold-out chairs and a five-piece band, is simple and grungy.
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The nation is in disarray following rioting led by the military.
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Another handicap was the financial disarray that began to beset Germany.
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When his own business affairs fell into a state of disarray in 1773, he was forced to withdraw from public life.
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In some ways the ultimate question posed by Fox News, Murdoch's career, and television's current fertile disarray is whether charlatanry is an improvement on humbug.
The Murdoch Touch
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She fidgeted on her feet, tucking a strand of her disarray hair behind her ears a few times.
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Much of the rest of the archival material is uncatalogued, and is now in some disarray.
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He pushed her chair in and kissed the top of her tangled and disarrayed hair.
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Birmingham were in complete disarray.
The Sun
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It was the normal state of red alert, panic, and disarray in the Bronx County Building.
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During this 8 year debacle the following occured: our education was and still is in disarray, NOTHING was done about health care, 911 happened on their watch, we sent troops to war into the wrong country (any WMD's found yet?), Katrina hit and they watched it like a TV program barely lifting a hand for 1 week.
Cheney named Conservative of the Year
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Steve loomed over her, his face puffed with exertion and his beard tangled and in disarray.
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The deputy, who is a small, wiry man with long whiskers that stick out from his face in disarray, turns to look up at the hotel.
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It was the normal state of red alert, panic, and disarray in the Bronx County Building.
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The complete disarray of the opposition parties leaves the field clear for the government to implement urgent reforms.
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The army under the British commander-in-chief in the Far East, Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, was defeated and in disarray.
A Covert Affair
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The modernisers are in total disarray.
Times, Sunday Times
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This left the Liberal Party in total disarray .
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I may try moving the whole blog over to the new webspace, but my Blogger-generated Archives are in such a state of disarray that I am worried I may lose quite a few of them if I make the move.
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Since September 11, we stopped a little over $100 million, about five of that has been Saudis ', but much more needs to be done, and part of it is the disarray in the U.S. government, and we also need an international group as part of the G-7, which is the meeting of all of the major economic powers that really rides hard (ph) on this.
CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2002
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Just as nations across the developing world are managing to lure their scattered expatriates back home to fuel recovering economies and join vibrant democracies, the outrush of Venezuelan brainpower is gutting universities and think tanks, crippling industries, and hastening the economic disarray that threatens to destroy one of the richest countries in the hemisphere.
Brain Drain
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The runanga is in disarray; one group claiming to represent the runanga is embroiled in a scrap with a new group that has fought to get authorities to take notice of its concerns about where the health dollars went.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN's role in all future climate change negotiations.
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: December 9, 2009
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YELLIN: Well, there have been a number of reports that there is disarray in the campaign, finger pointing, anger about what some call a muddied message by Senator Clinton.
CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2007
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The house is in disarray, piles of unwashed dishes and unpaid bills are strewn across the dining room table.
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Eva Gonorowsky, her hair in wildest disarray, her stocking fouled, un-gartered, and down-gyved to her ankle, appears before her teacher.
A Christmas Present for a Lady
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Birmingham were in complete disarray.
The Sun
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Their aim will be to minimise the appearance of the organisation being in total disarray.
Times, Sunday Times
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They all turned to look at Ursula Harris, whose face was crimson, her chestnut hair in disarray like a baby bird's fluff, whose laugh was audible even here, a high garrulous tinkle.
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disarrayed bedclothes
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This left the Liberal Party in total disarray .
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With his sleeves rolled up, his apron well splashed, his coppery hair more or less in disarray from the occasional thrustings of a soapy hand, and his face flushed and eager like a healthy boy's, Red Pepper Burns stood grinning down at his patient.
Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular
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Jha thinks the government is "in complete disarray: It's nonresponsive, it doesn't deliver on time, and when it does, it's at a much higher cost" than is justified.
India wants to be a great power. So why are its Commonwealth Games such a mess?
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City Prosecutor's Office spokesman Sergei Marchenko said the killer or killers had apparently rifled through Kushnir's possessions, leaving the apartment in disarray.
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And by Friday, he was back here, to prep for a Westwood film premiere, even as management at his home base, Paramount Pictures, was in disarray again.
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: June 22, 2009
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But the plan was thrown into disarray even before the troops began landing.
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Now it seems to be in complete disarray '.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the more balanced economy would take time to emerge, and stock and bond markets, after their rip-roaring rallies, weren't priced for the disarray that could stem from a real sovereign shake-out.
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The police force is in total disarray, desperately in need of reorganization.
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This is evidence of an organisation in total disarray and the action proposed shows a regrettable disregard for patient care.
Times, Sunday Times
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Within minutes of his victory the party was in disarray.
The Sun
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Was she smiling like a Cheshire cat and counting her money or was she disheveled, upset, crying, disarrayed?
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Everything's been in disarray ever since that Mansion Madam Lisa Taylor got busted.
Opportunity Available. (Blog for Democracy)
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Two friends and colleagues, their hair still in wind-blown disarray from a shoreline geology field trip of San Diego Bay on a boat, full and happy from margaritas and a wonderful Mexican dinner, are heading to their respective rooms.
Archive 2010-02-01
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The playing side was in complete disarray.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was stripped of all clothes save for his shoes, the papers in his room in complete disarray.
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His caramel-colored hair was not styled today, making him appear slightly disarrayed and lending him a debonair, slightly rugged quality.
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But the mirror in front of her showed only her own pale, anxious face and disarrayed hair.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME
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Changing offices has left my papers in complete disarray.
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Recently her hair had been dyed crimson, permed and braided, and lay in neat disarray about her narrow shoulders.
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Personality factors, such as neuroticism, negative affect, hopelessness, and general psychological disarray, have also been found to be integral in the maintenance of smoking.
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This made her seem disarrayed, as though she's spent the last hour or so lying in a haystack.
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One of her jobs was to pull together party headquarters in Glasgow at a time when it was in woeful disarray - a task at which she manifestly failed and was then sidelined.
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Aristotle's philosophy had fallen into neglect and disarray in the second generation after his death and remained in the shadow of the Stoics, Epicureans, and Academic skeptics throughout the Hellenistic age.
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This left the Liberal Party in total disarray .
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But the leadership and the entire organization is in total disarray at the moment.
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In minutes, the once organised starguard lines had fallen into disarray, and the retreat was sounded.
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K. is farther away from the water, and in the distance I can see the disarrayed sand from the first scene, near the water.
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On the nuclear defence issue, the Alliance was also in complete disarray.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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But then he gets the call about his dad's unexpected death and it throws him into complete disarray.
The Sun
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Without more detail about exactly how her clothing was "disarrayed," I can't surmise whether she had begun to undress when she was attacked; whether the killer rearranged, undid, cut, or ripped her clothing; whether he did so before or after her death.
Portrait of a Killer
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After much gnashing of teeth, people thought our game was in complete disarray.
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The danger now of instructing inexperienced barristers in complex serious cases could manifest itself in injustices, and indeed the system crumbling into disarray.
Times, Sunday Times
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But if the Labour Party thinks the Tories' disarray is long-lasting, they are deluded.
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There will be no outcry from the corporate sector about the disarray in the accountancy profession.
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The election results and the general disarray showed that Blair continues to be very vulnerable.
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It could even spell long-term disarray, if not outright doom, for the modern Republican Party and its unique brand of lockstep asininity.
Randall Amster: The Disloyal Opposition: Rush is Right -- Obama Must Fail
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But when it comes to postwar Iraq it seems to be in complete disarray.
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Heath walked in leisurely, his lips were swollen and his clothes slightly disarrayed.
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Divorce, troubled children, mother working, a house in disarray, is not successful home life.
She Never "Did" Anything
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What we have here are certain individuals intent on disarraying the public gravitas of things.
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Our plans were thrown into disarray by the rail strike.
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Flowers grew in colorful disarray along the sides, and the late trees bloomed with light, colder looking colors.
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But the more balanced economy would take time to emerge, and stock and bond markets, after their rip-roaring rallies, weren't priced for the disarray that could stem from a real sovereign shake-out.
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She supposed he meant he was guilty for having thrown her life into disarray with his confession, and yet the word sat uneasily.
The Forgotten Garden
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Now it seems to be in complete disarray '.
Times, Sunday Times
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At a time when global trade in agriculture is in disarray, the U.S. and Canada agreed to a number of liberalizing policies that will ease trade distortions for our farmers.
The U.S.-Canadian Free Trade Area
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Obviously upset at the last minute non-appearance of Gantley, Galway looked to be in total disarray in the opening sequences watched by an attendance of 8,321.
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Before I met my acupuncturist, my love life was in disarray: acute disappointments, incongruent pairings, missing variables (sense of humor, stable income, deodorant).
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The Guardian: Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after 'Danish text' leak
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: December 9, 2009
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It would've been anyway, but Jesus, with the state of the GOP right now -- the daily bukkake of crazy coming from the disarrayed pack of howler monkeys that used to be an actual political party -- can you imagine what Obama's nominee is going to have to endure?
Chez Pazienza: Judge Dread
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All of those plans were thrown in disarray 10 days ago when UBS disclosed that a London-based equity trader at its investment bank generated $2.3 billion in losses this summer through what it called unauthorized trades.
UBS Chief Grübel Resigns After Trading Loss
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The peace talks broke up in disarray.
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Ever since the oil crisis, the industry has been in disarray.
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This is evidence of an organisation in total disarray and the action proposed shows a regrettable disregard for patient care.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the nuclear defence issue, the Alliance was also in complete disarray.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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His boot were high up to his knees and his cloak hung disarrayed behind him.
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It is a League which is in complete disarray.
The Sun
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Never have I seen enviros so dispirited or in such disarray.
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A downgrading would throw his prospects of taking up the university place he has been offered into complete disarray.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite a steady stream of scientific discoveries, as well as progress in genomics and biotechnology, global health is in disarray today.
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She also said that the ambitions of hundreds of school leavers had been thrown into disarray by the Government's decision not to proceed with the courses in September.
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Many painted a picture of a prison in disarray, a description that was amplified last week by the report of an independent commission.
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In disarrayed nightrobe I leap to bare feet and essay
Satyricon
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She must've looked a mess, cheeks flushed and hair in disarray.
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Geniuses must have a wild look, their hair must be in disarray, their mind must be in torment on account of their receptivity to divine afflatus, which comes in via the hair.
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When the university received the documents, he says, they were in such disarray that it took years to organize the pages enough to even create an index for the collection.
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He drove the enemy back at Verdun and protected the front while the French army was in disarray.
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As accounts were frequently disarrayed in towns like Dunnsbroke, he took up lodgings in Mrs. Winscombe's boardinghouse; his job would not be a quick one.
Rev. Jasper Pickery and Three Manifestations of the Devil
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Their aim will be to minimise the appearance of the organisation being in total disarray.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Bridge disaster, along with the subsequent events on Moloch, had thrown Piper's carefully calculated schedules into complete disarray.
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Plans for a string of new children's homes across the district were in disarray today after a five-hour row on the issue.
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Some claim the government's transport policy is still in disarray and that this is also helping to buoy sales.
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The association soon fell into disarray due mainly to the petty in fighting among the less advanced worlds.
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There appeared to be thousands of them, in almost comical disarray, and a few police cars.
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In one corner was a disarrayed mess of blankets that I guessed served as a bed, an iron-bound chest similar to Mai's tucked into a corner.
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A middle-aged lady was seen rushing out of the burning house with her clothes in disarray.
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He has not yet had his trial but his life has already been blasted into disarray.
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Celtic were a club in utter disarray before O'Neill arrived in Parkhead in 2000.
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Joseph's tax affairs (his whole reason for schlepping his emergent family to Bethlehem) must have been thrown into disarray by the sudden acquisition of gold that would be very hard to account for.
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In addition to carrying value is not high inconvenience, and disarray robbery who have time to study ah?
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More books, tumbling off the shelves now, landing about the room in utter disarray.
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Upon opening the grave, the skull and femora were found in a "skull and crossbones" orientation on top of the ribs and vertebrae, which were also found in disarray.
Bloodsucking Yankees
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The nation is in disarray following rioting led by the military.
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She was exhausted; her shirt was soaked with sweat and her hair was quickly falling into disarray.
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When I argue that your connoisseurship or aestheticism are suspect and insist on my own highly materialist readings of things, it does not mean that our field is in disarray.
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A downgrading would throw his prospects of taking up the university place he has been offered into complete disarray.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only one person can unite the disarrayed Republican party and her name is Hillary Clinton.
Your Election Central Guide To The Weekend Dem Contests
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Perhaps in people with a genetic predisposition, the trigger sends the immune system into permanent overdrive and disarray.
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It was the wanting that had him at times in total disarray.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gonorowsky, her hair in wildest disarray, her stocking fouled, ungartered, and down-gyved to her ankle, appeared before her teacher.
Little Citizens
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A great bunch of gypsophila, daisies, freesia and roses sits in seemingly haphazard, but considered, disarray.
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On her way over she sees Kyle's form, lying disarrayed on his ‘bed’.
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Perhaps in people with a genetic predisposition, the trigger sends the immune system into permanent overdrive and disarray.
