How to Use disorder in a Sentence

disorder

1 of 2 verb
  • Note the order in regions (i)-(v) and disorder at points (vi)-(viii).
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Disorder of the body disordered the mind.
    — Leila Chatti september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The mob was led, and by those committed to disorder, whatever the cost in bloodshed.
    — Dennis Aftergut, CNN, 30 Nov. 2022
  • What began as holiday cleanup has led to a tsunami of bringing order to disorder.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Entropy measures how disordered a system is.
    — Chad Hanna, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Corwin said that at the molecular level, glass looks disordered compared to crystals.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Mar. 2026
  • By contrast, body dysmorphia and disordered eating come from fear and negative body image.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 4 June 2026
  • In contrast to the crystal nature of the diamond, this layer is disordered and behaves more like a liquid than a solid.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The memories that form the main stream of Night are indeed disordered temporally.
    — Jane Alison june 17, Literary Hub, 17 June 2025
  • Children have a penchant for unconventional thinking that, at first glance, can look disordered.
    — Celeste Kidd, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
  • How could glass, disordered by definition, possess equal order?
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The cultural appetite for stories of illness, disease, disorder and grave old age is bottomless.
    — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2021
  • But even in the randomness of the routes to disorder taken by so many complex systems, science has found a regularity.
    — Martin Weil, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2019
  • When that authority tells a young person that their identity is disordered and must be changed, the harm isn’t just theoretical.
    — A.j. Russo, Baltimore Sun, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Extreme deficits may lead to obsessive food tracking, anxiety around eating, or disordered eating patterns.
    — Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Heat and Movement Motions of particles also creates heat, but in that case the movement is disordered and random.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Extreme deficits may lead to obsessive food tracking, anxiety around eating, or disordered eating patterns.
    — Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Cool aunts can have internalized misogyny and disordered eating patterns.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Immigration opponents like to point to disorder at the border, and too often liberal judges have helped them by undermining the law.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 June 2020
  • Sometimes sincere people wonder how the Church succeeds in doing so much genuine good in the world, what with so much human frailty and even disorder at every level.
    — Nr Symposium, National Review, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Critics say Trump’s media bashing and litigation have already disordered the news business.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 16 July 2025
  • Chief Michael LiPetri, who is in charge of crime control strategies, said that during warmer months, nearly a third of shootings are tied to disorder and low-level crime.
    — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2022
  • At the heart of every difference between the past and future -- memory, aging, causality, free will -- is the fact that the universe is evolving from order to disorder.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2011
  • Purely amorphous ice that is totally disordered should retain no memory of its earlier form, unless there is some crystalline structure remaining.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 9 July 2025
  • The anthem takes as its theme the second law of thermodynamics, which holds that any closed system, including the universe, inevitably becomes more entropic and disordered over time.
    — Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 24 July 2018
  • The president has been effective in stirring fears about crime and disorder nationally, according to the Times/Siena polls and others this month.
    — Emily Badger, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The other simulation started with large cubes of ice molecules packed together with equal spacing, and then randomly disordered those molecules.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 9 July 2025
  • The nation gaped last summer as perpetrators in full view openly smashed windows with impunity, giving all of us a view through the broken glass of what a nation surrendering to disorder looks like.
    — George J. Terwilliger Iii, National Review, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Democracies are also prone to disorder and corruption, but these are ineluctable features of any political system comprised of selfish and flawed human beings.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 20 Dec. 2018
  • Man in modern society was disordered, but, at the school Gurdjieff was building across the Channel, harmony could be restored.
    — Literary Hub, 20 May 2025

disorder

2 of 2 noun
  • The mayor is concerned that a rally could create public disorder.
  • Millions of people suffer from some form of personality disorder.
  • Something of a disorder, some would say.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Pacemaker surgery is used to treat a wide range of heart rhythm disorders.
    — Jennifer Whitlock, Rn, Msn, Fn, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2023
  • That, and, of course, his mental disorder.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 6 June 2026
  • Just as the Panthers seemed to have the pieces in place, disorder struck.
    — Peter Carline, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • That’s sort of the standard line of treatment for these disorders.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Its fiscal house was in disorder.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Beards were not signs of virility but of disorder.
    — Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Rather than dreading this disorder, the avant-garde welcomed it.
    — Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Estimates vary on the prevalence of what is known as cannabis use disorder.
    — David Ovalle and Fenit Nirappil, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Hart brings force, instinct and a little disorder.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 1 June 2026
  • The relief was great, but so was the post-traumatic stress disorder.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Read more about how dentists can help patients with substance use disorders.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 25 Feb. 2026
  • This autoimmune disorder that causes dry, scaly, and itchy skin.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Though she’s been met with support, some in her network still don’t grasp the gravity of her disorder.
    — Gabrielle Nicole Pharms, Essence, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Scurvy One of the most well-known is scurvy, a disorder caused by a lack of vitamin C.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Crime, disorder and lack of enforcement have eroded trust.
    — Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026
  • God alone knows what the ultimate repercussions of the disorder will be.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Celine had also been scheduled to play there but had to call off her appearances due to the disorder.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Does the client have a specific mental disorder?
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The government dropped the other charges in exchange for his guilty plea on the civil disorder charge.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Sometimes, the fastest way to restore order is to embrace a little bit of disorder first.
    — Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Catfacing is not a disorder that can be transferred from one plant to another.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 May 2026
  • Ring says people with thyroid disorders or who are pregnant or breastfeeding should avoid sea moss.
    — Maria Godoy, NPR, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Stage 6 is the breakdown—the period of great disorder.
    — Ray Dalio, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Otherwise, all five men face a felony count of civil disorder and the three misdemeanor charges.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The disorder occurs when cerebrospinal fluid builds up inside the skull and presses on the brain.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Since birth, he's been battling a genetic disorder.
    — Romi Bean, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • About one-third reported a substance use disorder.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 16 May 2026

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