How to Use disheveled in a Sentence

disheveled

adjective

• They looked dirty and disheveled.
• His wrinkled suit gave him a disheveled appearance.
• What’s up with the beard, nose ring and disheveled hair?
  — Bryan Mena, SFChronicle.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• The glass front door of the business was smashed and a desk was found disheveled.
  — Brian Lisik/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• Raveesh’s body, heavyset and disheveled, on the floor near the kitchen.
  — Katie Worth, WIRED, 19 Apr. 2018
• Her brunette hair was piled atop the crown of her head to form a disheveled bun.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 15 Aug. 2023
• The officer then ordered the man to open the door of the disheveled room.
  — cleveland, 11 Oct. 2022
• There’s the disheveled man at the gas station who won’t leave.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2017
• Fey says to me, giving my disheveled self the once-over.
  — Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
• His guests, on the other hand, must have bordered on the disheveled.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020
• The first panel of the cartoon showed a disheveled man near a lamppost.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Aug. 2016
• But back home at the base in North Carolina, friends watched him grow disheveled and edgy.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2017
• The film opens with a disheveled Janet pointing a gun at a mystery person on the other side of the door.
  — Lindsey Bahr, kansascity, 8 Mar. 2018
• Then Hansen pointed out burn marks on the sidewalk that crept up a disheveled tree.
  — oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2021
• Little bit disheveled, but with an act that still kills.
  — Charles E. Kraus, New York Daily News, 1 July 2024
• The wild men of later years were merely disheveled and loud, and Breen was unimpressed.
  — David Hill, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
• The ship’s captain was hesitant to let the disheveled man back into the ocean alone.
  — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2021
• The disheveled man struggled up one of the park's long concrete stairways as the armed phalanx closed in.
  — Chris Barton, latimes.com, 8 May 2018
• As is the disheveled shrubbery lodged in a corner of Max Yasgur’s barn.
  — Dominique Browning, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• At one point, a grubby, disheveled man with bulging eyes walked into the party and sat down among the cops.
  — Erin Patrick O'Connor, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
• Officers arrived to find the house in a disheveled state.
  — cleveland, 24 Feb. 2022
• For years, it’s been a slightly disheveled retreat in search of a purpose.
  — Developing Governors Island, Curbed, 11 May 2023
• The footage showed a messy, disheveled room, with trash, debris and clothes scattered on the floor and draped over furniture.
  — Author: Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Alaska Dispatch News, 27 Sep. 2017
• The suspect was described as 5-feet, 7-inches tall, with black hair and a disheveled beard, Radus said.
  — Chris Haire, Orange County Register, 1 Feb. 2017
• Add some pizazz by making more tears or use a sanding block to add some more of a disheveled or old look to the clothing.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 27 Oct. 2023
• In the pic, Couco’s husband, Karl stares at the camera with a Cheshire catlike smile on his face while Couco looks grim and disheveled.
  — Julius Young, Fox News, 6 July 2018
• Hair was shaggy and disheveled, bangs were side-swept and sweaty, and eyeliner was heavy, smudged and black.
  — Cassidy George, Vogue, 2 June 2022
• When tested with the pet brush, no fibers came up, but the rug did start to look disheveled and the pattern became less distinct.
  — Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2024
• As Hernandez made the announcement Tuesday, a disheveled man sat under the shade of a nearby tree.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024
• And from the moment of his getting up this morning, he’d been haunted by that long-ago figure: himself, disheveled but overjoyed, in his dressing gown.
  — Graham Swift, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024