Examples of disarray in a Sentence

Noun The room was in disarray. The company has fallen into complete disarray. Verb he had accidentally disarrayed his brother's CDs, leaving a telltale sign of borrowing without permission

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Millions of children around the world saw their education disrupted over the past two years, with exams, school transitions and regular school thrown into disarray. — Nick Morrison, Forbes, 17 May 2022 Bitcoin dipped to a low of $25,425 on Thursday after the TerraUSD algorithmic stablecoin unraveled, throwing the entire ecoystem that supports it into disarray. — Fortune, 15 May 2022 Accident reporting was thrown into disarray and the number of deminers fell to about 3,000 from 5,000. — New York Times, 14 May 2022 The estimate vastly exceeds previous projections and comes amid concerns that rising inflation and arcane spending rules could throw the state’s finances into disarray in the near future. — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2022 When she's accused of the murder of golden boy Chase Andrews (Harris Dickinson), her entire life is thrown into disarray as the town's prejudices take center stage. — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 May 2022 The government was recently thrown into disarray when ministers stepped down en masse. — Hannah Ritchie, CNN, 10 May 2022 In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, her colleagues begin to close ranks, and Elizabeth’s life is thrown into disarray. — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 May 2022 When the country stopped taking imports of plastic waste in 2018, recycling markets in the U.S. and other countries were left in disarray. — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 6 May 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb The hands-off approach in Washington is adding to disarray around the death penalty nationwide as pressure increases in some conservative states to find ways to continue executions amid shortages of the lethal-injection drugs. — Michael Tarm, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2021 Eslam Negm is no stranger to disarray on the Suez Canal. — NBC News, 2 Apr. 2021 Culley assumes a tough challenge of changing the culture of a Texans franchise that in the last year has gone from playoff squad to disarray. — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2021 The economic benefits are nothing compared to disarray and division within NATO. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2020 Naird’s situation is of a man with ramrod-straight posture prostrated and disarrayed at many odd angles. — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 28 May 2020 Large or small, the surface had to appear elegantly disarrayed. — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020 In this one, the first of a series published from 1935 to 1961, readers are introduced to a nervous Londoner named Pongo Twistleton, whose orderly life is disarrayed by the visit of his peremptory and mischievous uncle Fred from the country. — Jesse Green, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018 See More

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History and Etymology for disarray

Noun

Middle English disaraye, disaray "disorder, broken military formation," borrowed from Anglo-French dissairay, noun derivative of desaraier "to mishandle, throw into disorder" — more at disarray entry 2

Verb

Middle English disarraien "to break up (a military formation), throw into disorder," borrowed from Anglo-French desaraier "to mishandle, throw into disorder," from des- dis- + arraier, arreyer, aroier "to arrange, order, marshal, equip, attire" — more at array entry 1

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