Examples of disorientate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Its hallways were disorientating, narrow, windowless and lined with identical-looking doors. — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020 So when the film's recreation of that same image was projected over the dance floor in Berlin, with party music blasting and a bar serving free-flowing cocktails nearby, many attendees were disorientated, if not disturbed. — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2020 Dee Rees has stumbled badly with her adaptation of Joan Didion’s novel of the same name, creating a messy, disorientating and meandering film. — Mark Kennedy, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2020 Often triggered by intense motion such as rollercoasters or rides, motion sickness can also happen while merely being a passenger in a car, leaving the individual disorientated. — chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2019 Thankfully, higher brain areas assemble these fragments into a coherent whole-otherwise all our friends might look like Picasso's disorientating paintings of his muse Dora Maar. — Daniel Glaser, A-LIST, 1 July 2018 The movie is disorientating you in all of Grace's layers of life. — Mark Olsen, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018 He was located, bloody from a fall and disorientated. — Joseph Clark, cleveland.com, 16 Apr. 2018 Police said Palomares has a medical condition and may appear disorientated and confused. — Lurissa Carbajal, azcentral, 13 Apr. 2018

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