How to Use arrangement in a Sentence

arrangement

noun
  • They changed the arrangement of furniture in the room.
  • We'll have to change the seating arrangements for the dinner party.
  • Her job includes arrangement of her boss's travel plans.
  • We tried several different arrangements of the parts.
  • Having my brother and his wife living nearby was an ideal arrangement for our family.
  • There was an unusual political arrangement between the two countries.
  • The family had very unusual living arrangements.
  • With an arrangement like this, all bets would be off.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Why not turn the whole arrangement on its head?
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
  • That arrangement has worked out well.
    — Christian Clark, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Why the back-and-forth arrangement?
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Here is what Trump has said about the arrangement.
    — Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The arrangement held because there was no cheap way to check.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • The new arrangement will still need to be approved by a judge.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2026
  • That arrangement was sleazy enough.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The arrangement gets murky when sparks start to fly between them.
    — Leah Hall, Country Living, 8 Dec. 2022
  • That arrangement worked, albeit not well, for a year and a half.
    — Nancy Vienneau, Southern Living, 17 May 2026
  • Fried said this kill switch is what makes the arrangement workable.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 1 June 2026
  • How has that arrangement been working out for you?
    — Robin Joy Maxson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
  • At first, their coupling had been part of our arrangement.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • All arrangements about dogs and camp equipment were left to them.
    — Delbert L. Chears, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026
  • If the arrangements flirt with cliché, then the lyrics dive straight into it.
    — Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Sexyy tries to ride the beat with ad-libs but gets smothered by the arrangement.
    — Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The specifics of that arrangement are still being worked out.
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Banks tend to earn most of the money from these arrangements in the back half of the deals.
    — Hugh Son,leslie Josephs, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2024
  • That arrangement seemed to work until now.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • At the head of the table sits an arrangement of winter greens.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
  • But there’s a downside to this arrangement.
    — Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Yet the specifics of such an arrangement are difficult to hash out.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The space will also have new seating arrangements and get a new coat of paint.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 20 Aug. 2025

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