How to Use dislocation in a Sentence

dislocation

noun

• The one that worked out well was a labrum and not a dislocation.
  — Matt Zenitz | [email protected], al, 19 Nov. 2019
• In this case, dislocation added perhaps an even greater force to his new work.
  — Cat Cardenas, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2024
• As night fell, this mood, tinged with hints of dislocation and panic, took hold.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Will there be some job dislocation?
  — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 6 Mar. 2026
• Still a mood lingers, one of dislocation and unease.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 23 Sep. 2025
• Some two weeks into the war, the scale of the dislocation is immense.
  — Michael Bociurkiw, CNN, 10 Mar. 2022
• Tied up with his sense of dislocation, the song haunted the author for years.
  — Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
• Millerism emerged in an era that, like ours, was defined by a sense of dislocation.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 6 June 2017
• Huerter is out with a left shoulder dislocation and labrum tear.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 29 Mar. 2024
• The opening scene is a brilliant feint of dislocation that sets the tone — and the din — of what follows.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2023
• Flap dislocation is when the flap used to open the top layer of the cornea reopens post-procedure.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2023
• This wasn’t just a dislocation or an ACL.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
• All of that dislocation has become a matrix that shapes the lives of the people Fern meets.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 18 Feb. 2021
• Threats to survival also emerge when war or other dislocations stop the movement of goods.
  — Ashish Kothari, Scientific American, 1 June 2021
• The French had a new word for their own sense of dislocation — dépaysement — not feeling at home.
  — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
• In the hallway, black-and-white photographs evoked decades of dislocation.
  — New York Times, 7 Nov. 2021
• The history of the world is a story of dislocation and movement.
  — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
• And the shoulder dislocation last May was the second of his career.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
• And that dislocation tore the labrum, which is the tissue that surrounds the socket and attaches it to the bone.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 10 Feb. 2026
• Drug use is the most standard of the methods employed to grapple with prior deaths and dislocations.
  — Sean McCoy, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• His demeanor returning from a fracture and dislocation of his ankle to start the year?
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2021
• What Earthquake Bird gets right is the sense of dislocation that can arise from living as a stranger in a strange land.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2019
• This dislocation creates gaps in the market.
  — Greg Friedman, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
• These pin dislocations and boost strength without the usual penalty in toughness.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
• The pain isn't as bad now that my shoulder is back in place, but the second dislocation was far more complicated than the first.
  — Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
• Joint pain and dislocations are also common.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
• The dislocation was clean, with no broken bones or ligament damage.
  — Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
• And then all the rest of the songs are about yearning and dislocation in relationship, in one way or another.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 May 2024
• With a finger dislocation, once the finger is popped back into socket, the player should be good to return to the game.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 1 Oct. 2017
• There is a great deal of truth in the film, and the dislocation between the silent generation and their children is real enough.
  — Armond White, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023