Example sentences for: haphazard

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

  • The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established in 1970 under a presidential reorganization plan in response to public concerns over unhealthy air, polluted rivers, unsafe drinking water, and haphazard waste disposal.

  • This may seem haphazard compared with the way the music industry's main best-seller list--published in Billboard magazine--is compiled: It tracks every single album sold at every single music store in the United States.

  • The quotations are listed in rather haphazard order under these subcategories; authors (including rare attributions to the most popular, Anon.) are ascribed and, if they are dead, their dates are sometimes given (but none for Lenny Bruce, Sigmund Freud, Samuel Goldwyn, Groucho Marx, etc.); it is hard to understand the style.

  • The lawsuit filed last week on behalf of a small group of American farmers and a French organic farmer was a haphazard and scattershot collection of charges that might have been designed to demonstrate the excesses to which the U.S. legal system can be driven.

  • Whereas the nucleus of Florence was built to a strict Roman city plan of straight streets intersecting at right angles, Siena has all the Tuscan hill-town’s haphazard organic forms, straggling up and down a forked ridge of not one but three hilltops.


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