How to Use ordered in a Sentence

ordered

adjective

• Open for pre-ordered and pick-up only holiday meals.
  — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 14 Nov. 2025
• Christopher lives with most of the world’s noise shut out, in a neat and ordered universe of likes and dislikes.
  — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2017
• Davis, raised as a foster child, is trying to construct an ordered world for himself.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Feb. 2026
• Any merchandise that was pre-ordered will be honored and delivered, but merchandise will no longer be available at the game, the team said.
  — Irene Wright, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
• Yet both Sarkissian and Roberts seem to understand the emergence and survival of small states as evidence of a less bloody and more ordered world.
  — Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
• Some ordered autopsies in sudden infant deaths and unexpected child deaths; others didn’t.
  — Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 5 Mar. 2025
• All pre-ordered merchandise will be delivered, however.
  — Dan Raby, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
• Shoppers in Rome lined up outside markets to pick up pre-ordered fish, which in much of southern Italy forms the backbone of the traditional holiday meal.
  — Nicole Winfield, ajc, 24 Dec. 2020
• Pearcey said Final Four caps were the most popular pre-ordered item ($36 to $40), but flags and pennants are also in demand.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
• The concept of entropy describes a system’s tendency to move from order toward disorder, because there are so many more ways for a disordered state to exist than an ordered state.
  — Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2023
• The alternative to an ordered world, and to countries shouldering the cost of its defense, is the law of the jungle, where big countries can take territory, impose their rule and spread chaos at will.
  — Richard Fontaine, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• Up until recently, the Fire Department was able to switch and swap shifts in a way that led to different people working together in a random but ordered way.
  — ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2020
• During the pandemic, La Cocina’s retail side primarily focused on pre-ordered gift boxes.
  — Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 July 2021
• With computers back ordered and nonprofit partners trying to build internet networks, thousands of students won’t have internet by Tuesday.
  — Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com, 8 Sep. 2020
• Societies that have endured many severe crises and dangers tend to be more ordered, wary of difference, and disciplined in the following of rules than societies without that historical experience.
  — Michele Gelfand, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
• Its goal was a re-ordered world, a decoupling between key US and Chinese spheres, and what its members saw as clear-eyed engagement in a new Cold War that had already begun.
  — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
• Where neoclassical poets like Alexander Pope appealed to an ordered world, with clear meanings and a hierarchy of kinds, the Romantics recognized that this was no longer credible.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• The new program will replace the complimentary meal handed out to main cabin passengers – typically a Hot Pocket-style sandwich – with pre-ordered dishes available for purchase up to 20 hours before departure.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 16 June 2026