How to Use orderly in a Sentence

orderly

adjective

• Please exit the building in an orderly fashion.
• Outside the theater, an orderly line of people waited to buy tickets.
• She sorted the information into orderly categories.
• Like Blair’s, my body does not move through the world in an orderly way.
  — Fortesa Latifi, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
• One view, at least in Europe, is that the decline there will be slow and orderly.
  — Tom Fairless, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
• Despite the number of people, the line was calm and orderly.
  — The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2023
• The long-stroke spool and one-piece bail fight tangles and promote orderly line lay on the retrieve.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
• The initial lines to exit the city were long—but also very orderly.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
• The scene is savage, but after the mayhem is over, all turns orderly.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 29 Jan. 2024
• The movie opens on a beating metronome, which seems to set the orderly, clockwork rhythm of Morricone’s life.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Feb. 2024
• Everything is orderly, but in a way that feels serene rather than strict.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 31 July 2023
• But in the days of November and December, this was -- this was an orderly process.
  — CBS News, 2 July 2023
• But in the days of November and December, this was- this was an orderly process.
  — CBS News, 2 July 2023
• If anything, the succession of scenes might be a touch too orderly.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• For most of the day, the sky stays a constant blue, the horizon punctuated by the orderly fronds of date palm trees grown on nearby farms.
  — Emma Grillo Kitra Cahana, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2023
• But sometimes the pain does not play out in such an orderly and predictable way, as the trouble in the banking system makes clear.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Even though the stops were made in a very orderly, straight-line manner, fade was apparent and the brake pedal bottomed out on the third try.
  — Car and Driver, 13 Jan. 2023
• At the moment, all of that money can't be accessed and likely will have to be released in an orderly process.
  — Ken Sweet, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2023
• But she was long gone, like everything else that had been stable and orderly in his life.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• Halfway up, where Forest Service land ends and the Crooks’ begins, the brush is cleared and small trees stand growing in orderly lines.
  — Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2023
• Here’s the premise: A murder occurs in an orderly world where robots are unable to kill humans.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 4 July 2023
• Asked about her favorite place in the house, the owner indicates her orderly dressing room.
  — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2024
• When the sun is at its quietest, with nary a sunspot, its magnetic field is strong and orderly, with a tidy magnetic pole at the star’s top and bottom.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2024
• Align the block of color with your horizontal element of choice to achieve a crisp, orderly look.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• Miss Manners hears that word a lot from people who do not want to follow procedures that have been worked out to make things orderly.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• At the moment, uninsured deposits can't be accessed and likely will have to be released in an orderly process.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2023
• And so all of that information needs to be tendered to the defense in an orderly and catalog way.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2022
• There’s no better way to enter the new year than with a clean, orderly space — a feat that can be easily achieved with the help of space organizers.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 31 Dec. 2023
• And those who did come to vote in-person cast their ballots in an orderly and respectful fashion.
  — CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
• The problem with appeasement, of course, was that Hitler’s goals were not limited to an orderly revision of the Treaty of Versailles.
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024