Example sentences for: disarray

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

  • In 1979 the nationalists were in disarray when a referendum was defeated, and further efforts came to nought during Conservative rule in the British Parliament at Westminster through the 1980s and early 1990s.

  • The WP lead asserts that eighteen months after federal welfare reform, "it is becoming clear that the mass of data the government requires states to collect is in such disarray that it is impossible to determine whether the law is working."

  • Gambling everywhere in America has produced its share of social disarray and political sleaziness, but nothing remotely equals South Carolina, whose poker industry was built on lies, legal chicanery, and just plain crime.

  • 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.

  • The political left was in disarray.


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