How to Use arrangement in a Sentence

arrangement

noun
  • They changed the arrangement of furniture in the room.
  • We'll have to change the seating arrangements for the dinner party.
  • Her job includes arrangement of her boss's travel plans.
  • We tried several different arrangements of the parts.
  • Having my brother and his wife living nearby was an ideal arrangement for our family.
  • There was an unusual political arrangement between the two countries.
  • The family had very unusual living arrangements.
  • Banks tend to earn most of the money from these arrangements in the back half of the deals.
    Hugh Son,leslie Josephs, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2024
  • And in the end, this is Zoe’s energy that helped us to find the right arrangement.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
  • In April 2021, the two agreed on a custody arrangement for their young son.
    Alexia Fernández, PEOPLE.com, 25 Jan. 2022
  • At the head of the table sits an arrangement of winter greens.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
  • But the deal fell apart after a judge took issue with the structure of the arrangement.
    Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The arrangement gets murky when sparks start to fly between them.
    Leah Hall, Country Living, 8 Dec. 2022
  • At the same time, the corkscrew arrangement controls how stress waves from the punch travel through the structure.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The space will also have new seating arrangements and get a new coat of paint.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 20 Aug. 2025
  • About a third of low-income adults cite the need for child care as a reason for such an arrangement.
    Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Yet the specifics of such an arrangement are difficult to hash out.
    Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The plants move to the windows and my seating arrangement and desk now face the natural light.
    R29 Team, refinery29.com, 23 Sep. 2024
  • His lawyer, Richard Goldberg, asked for that arrangement to allow Willis to find a job and work.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 16 July 2024
  • Oher said the couple misled him to believe the arrangement was a form of adoption.
    Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
  • As the evening drew to a close, guests made their way out of the gallery with a lingering gift: one of the fragrant vegetable arrangements.
    Kristen Tauer, WWD, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Then be sure to order her an arrangement from Ode à la Rose.
    Jenae Sitzes, Country Living, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Staff at the call center were offered a chance to apply for a WFH arrangement.
    Bygleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The Times confirmed the arrangement through a source, but the Bureau for Prisons declined to speak on the matter.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Beyond that, the arrangement of their home vs. away schedule hasn’t helped.
    Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Nov. 2022
  • But Alex, now a bit older and a bit more bold, attempts to make an arrangement of his own with the Endless One.
    Alex Raiman, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2022
  • That kind of arrangement would need to be worked out in the Legislature.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • In the clip, a seemingly oblong arrangement of greenish-white lights can be seen in the sky.
    R. Dallon Adams, Chron, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The involvement of all the players in that song and the arrangement itself is just insane!
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The arrangement, made five years before Diana’s 1997 death in Paris, has since taken on an unexpected resonance.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025

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