How to Use orderliness in a Sentence
orderliness
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One of the most promising ones, this week, has been the orderliness of their exits.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2022
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Emanuel can barely sit still; Japan prizes calm and orderliness.
—Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
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Other than its size and relative orderliness, one thing sets this place apart.
—Jon Marcus, Washington Post, 1 May 2017
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At first, there was a quaintly naïve orderliness to her preparations.
—BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2021
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The visual appeal derives from a sense of orderliness just beyond reach.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 June 2022
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Just the route comes to mind, the repetition and orderliness of following the same path.
—Sarah Fay, Longreads, 17 Mar. 2020
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Those rooms have the overstuffed charm of an antiques shop but the orderliness of the Met, with a dash of celebrity-bus-tour glamour.
—Jazmine Hughes, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
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The story of the Summer of Love, like so many things that summer, defies orderliness.
—Alan Solomon, sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 2017
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The orderliness of their rhythms disappears.
—Emily Feng, NPR, 20 May 2026
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Wood’s orderliness and his precision enabled him to boil down this feeling, to put it wordlessly on canvas.
—Danny Wilcox Frazier, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
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The foundations of orderliness for any city are planning and management.
—Ndubisi Onwuanyi, Quartz Africa, 5 Oct. 2019
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In fact, while some Virgos are the picture of orderliness and service, most are naturally drawn to a holy mess.
—Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 12 June 2021
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The hidden long-range order of this putative state could rival the more obvious orderliness of a crystal.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2020
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Driving from site to site, Hirayama goes about his work with a precision that matches the orderliness of his home and his schedule.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
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Wandering around the Belfast set, the scope and the orderliness of the enterprise is staggering.
—TIME.com, 30 June 2017
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There was a sense of orderliness, a surface calm, to the early Nixon administration.
—Tim Naftali, Slate Magazine, 9 Mar. 2017
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Rascher said her mother also is a perfectionist with a penchant for orderliness, but above all a modest woman.
—Mike Danahey, Elgin Courier-News, 26 May 2017
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Before omicron, before the injuries that altered the balance of the rotation, there was an orderliness to the equation.
—Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Jan. 2022
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Because Japan, a country that prides itself on its discipline and orderliness, places that same pressure to be punctual on train staff.
—Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 20 May 2021
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The universe is moving from low entropy (orderliness) to higher entropy (disorder) as time passes.
—Priyamvada Natarajan, WSJ, 1 June 2018
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The orderliness, which relies on a mutual assumption of good faith, benefits all sides, Shortland told me.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
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The most intimidating part of Golden State’s off-season has been its orderliness.
—Ben Golliver, SI.com, 6 July 2017
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Gestation is considered a full-time job; the days at Golden Oaks have the same intense orderliness of a factory floor.
—Jessica Weisberg, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2019
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The outward orderliness of the trial collapsed within hours, when the jury sent more notes that revealed details about the deliberations.
—Alan Blinder, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2016
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In a country known for its picturesque landscapes and orderliness, the out-of-control wildfires have stoked unease and underlined the perils of global warming.
—Dan Bilefsky, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
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This is a character who navigates his path with an obsessive orderliness, moving according to the rules of some chessboard game of his own invention.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 4 Aug. 2017
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The Naked Man at first appears very orderly, but Wood overlaid the orderliness with random brushstrokes.
—Danny Wilcox Frazier, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
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Bernie detects in Eric’s spreadsheet orderliness the impact of dyslexia, but also of their upbringing.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
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The forcible occupation of the legislature sent shock waves through this slick financial hub, known for its efficiency and orderliness.
—Mike Ives, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
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All those vines stretching in tight formation across the floor and up the hills give Napa Valley an aura of orderliness as well as prosperity.
—Mike Dunne, sacbee, 23 May 2018
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