How to Use orderly in a Sentence

orderly

1 of 2 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.
  • But the orderly life of the army wasn’t for him.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Aug. 2025
  • So far, it should be said, things have been rather orderly.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 2 June 2026
  • Like Blair’s, my body does not move through the world in an orderly way.
    — Fortesa Latifi, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Not an orderly affair, but a free-for-all.
    — Scott Neuman, NPR, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Take your girl's curls from a unruly to a bit more orderly and coiffed with this adorable look.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The road should be, instead, clear and orderly.
    — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
  • The run is still orderly, not euphoric.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Marks’ job now is to turn all of it into something more orderly than hope.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026
  • Everything is orderly, but in a way that feels serene rather than strict.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Forcing people back now would not be orderly or safe.
    — Vanessa Joseph, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Along with an orderly and speedy asylum review process.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • In short, ensure the rollout felt orderly and smooth.
    — Christopher Lind, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • One view, at least in Europe, is that the decline there will be slow and orderly.
    — Tom Fairless, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Sleek and minimal in design, this pack helps keep your load light and orderly.
    — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2025
  • If anything, the succession of scenes might be a touch too orderly.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Grief portioned into orderly stages does not make sense, on any level.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 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
  • Boarding happens back to front to keep things orderly and peaceful.
    — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Mar. 2026
  • So right now, a persnickety, orderly life is out the window.
    — Denise Snodell, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
  • An orderly queue of penguins, a waving squirrel, and the fight over a fish dinner.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 18 Feb. 2026
  • That’s why finding fridge clear bins and other storage ideas will ensure that your shelves are orderly.
    — Kristin Corpuz, Architectural Digest, 16 Jan. 2026
  • There would be an orderly line at immigration and a taxi waiting to whisk us to the hotel.
    — Chris Schalkx, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Matching lamps, nightstands, and decor on either side of the bed feel orderly and peaceful.
    — Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The momentum profile here is as orderly as the price action.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 22 June 2026
  • And those who did come to vote in-person cast their ballots in an orderly and respectful fashion.
    — CNN, 13 Oct. 2022

orderly

2 of 2 noun
  • This same man has a job as an orderly in a psychiatric hospital.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The blast wave also shattered windows and other glass throughout much of the complex. Nurses, orderlies and other staff were sweeping up the glass and debris, and slowly putting things back together.
    — Nbc News, NBC news, 20 June 2025
  • Why couldn’t the orderlies have been played by Caucasian actors in this instance?
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2026
  • An orderly walked past the room where my psychiatrist and I were sitting, and then walked past again.
    — Miriam Toews september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Suddenly, orderlies are telling her to forfeit her sharp objects.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 June 2026
  • White patients, white doctors, white nurses, white orderlies.
    — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Many do hire more doctors and nurses and orderlies in the ER to confront the overflow.
    — Elisabeth Rosenthal, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Other times, patients had to wait while orderlies roamed the halls looking for the gurneys or wheelchairs needed to get things rolling.
    — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Some were made for families back home, others to be sold and a few by orderlies as gifts for their commanding officers.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Men enlisted to be soldiers not orderlies, waiters, or body servants.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 29 Mar. 2025
  • He is gainfully employed as an orderly at an elder care facility.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Mangione has been working as an orderly in the prison, responsible for cleaning showers and common areas.
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
  • In the end, Lilly is sent back to Juniper Hill, where the orderlies greet her with eerie Pennywise-like smiles.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Two orderlies enter the house and start pulling Betty out…to Sisters of Quiet Mercy.
    — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 29 Nov. 2018
  • In a photo, Correa can be seen sitting in a wheelchair attended by at least six deputies, three nurses or orderlies and another man out of uniform.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2019
  • For the next week, she'll be surrounded by orderlies and other patients, either numbed out on drug cocktails or violently unstable.
    — refinery29.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Immigrants serve as nurses, physician assistants, phlebotomists, orderlies, and in many other roles.
    — Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • The orderly, Byron Tyree Watson, 37, has been charged with first-degree murder.
    — Nolan Clay, Oklahoman, 12 Feb. 2026
  • The first person in the county to get vaccinated was an elderly orderly in the hospital’s emergency department, based on his front-line job and age.
    — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Most direct patient care at UTH is provided not by nurses or orderlies, but family members.
    — Oliver Staley, Quartz Africa, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The trio are some combination of orderlies and couriers, riding motorcycles through lethal terrain—marked with stakes to show where the bombs lie—to ferry patients or secure supplies.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Some are at the instruction of corrupt police chief Rasheed (Mohit Takalkar), now using his supposedly dead orderly to do his dirty work without trace.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 May 2023
  • Just as the medical system depends on the lowest paid of the health workers—the orderlies and custodians—the food system, now that restaurants have been limited to takeout and delivery, depends on a whole cadre of men pedalling bicycles.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020
  • All these years later, Vern remembers people acting orderly, evacuating at a measured pace, stopping to allow cars into the growing line of traffic out of Yuba City.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Shortly after the orderlies wheeled Jim away to be intubated, an intensive-care doctor explained to me and Alice that our brother was suffering from acute respiratory failure.
    — Christopher Beha, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The young family moved into a public-housing project and spent a difficult period subsisting on Spam and powdered milk—often purchased with food stamps—while Reed worked as an orderly at a psychiatric hospital.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • And now, so do UPS drivers, and postal workers, and agricultural field hands, and hospital orderlies, and a whole range of people whose jobs require them to continue to work with others despite the dangers and lockdowns.
    — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The doctors—and nurses, orderlies, pharmacists, administrative staff, and others—are also trying to understand how the disease works and what distinguishes it from other illnesses with similar symptoms.
    — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Black workers are also overrepresented in high-contact essential services, making up 33% of nursing assistants and 39% of hospital orderlies.
    — Jeff Green, Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
  • Related Stories Taking place in Karachi, the film tells the story of three women from a shelter home — an orderly, a nurse, and a guard — who venture into the outside world for a day to confront their families and a society that has failed them.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 12 Feb. 2026

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