Example sentences for: dislocation

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

  • It is this third phase that leads to the biggest dislocation in the show, since visitors see the "abstract" paintings of the Céret period last, though they were among the earliest Soutine painted.

  • First, we can acknowledge, and maybe even do something about, some of the disaffecting fallout from globalization, such as pollution and cultural dislocation.

  • The British, who didn't go through the dislocation (and revivification) of a revolution, simple allowed the gentry to establish the colloquial norm for those who counted themselves among the educated, and mined the literature for texts to constitute a canon that would be taught as a stylistic and, as a by-product, grammatical model.

  • Her monologue has some funny, dislocating observations: the unsophisticated ways of her folks juxtaposed against her newly acquired yuppie tastes, her need to sneak around like a teen-ager when a boyfriend comes to stay and, especially, her dislocation when, after taking her brother to the hospital for chemotherapy, she finds herself suddenly playing his part, as if, she says, she's at a square dance.

  • But then there are instances where the degree of dislocation is unclear.


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