Example sentences for: disarray

How can you use “disarray” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • GAO was created in 1921 as a result of the Budget and Accounting Act, a law designed to improve government financial controls and management in the aftermath of World War I. Wartime spending had increased the national debt, escalated costs for many government purchases, and created substantial disarray in the financial operations of the War Department and other agencies.

  • With its economy in disarray, the government introduced a limited number of capitalist measures while maintaining a firm political grip.

  • Spock relied on his own resilience, not science, to update his expertise for an era of feminism and family disarray.

  • Even if you don’t land a bargain, there is real aesthetic pleasure in seeing, at the end of the verbal “combat,” the disarray of silks thrown across a counter or a mound of carpets on the floor.

  • The war of words between Clinton and his enemies looked, as it so often does, like the ground war between the United States and Iraq: one side advancing with remorseless efficiency, the other side fleeing in disarray.


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