How to Use disoriented in a Sentence

disoriented

adjective

• Longer naps risk the disoriented feeling that can slow the start of a shift.
  — Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 May 2026
• This asynchrony was designed to leave viewers in a disoriented state of expectation.
  — Pauline J. Yao, Artforum, 2 May 2026
• For the opening scene of the pilot, which finds a disoriented Helly struggling to escape from a locked and empty conference room as a voice questions her over the intercom, Lower studied video of police interrogations.
  — Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
• At the same time, Russia is becoming increasingly tied to China, within a much more multipolar world order—a phenomenon partially caused by a disoriented West.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
• In August, Lil Nas X (born Montero Hill), 27, was arrested in Los Angeles after walking down the street in only his underwear and boots in a disoriented state.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 17 June 2026
• The disoriented hiker was 78-year-old Douglas Montgomery, an Eagle Scout and former scoutmaster who had trekked the same woods with Troop 10 of Burlingame, California, in the 1960s.
  — Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2025