How to Use disjointed in a Sentence

disjointed

adjective
  • The rest of the cast does their best, but the 10 episodes feel disjointed and anti-climactic.
    oregonlive, 1 Dec. 2022
  • While Houston moves on to play in San Diego, the A’s go home after a strange and disjointed year.
    Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Rounds go by month rather than subject, which makes the quiz feel very disjointed.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The disjointed episode made Carmichael feel more like a new cast member than a celebrity host.
    Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2022
  • And that the type displayed in a disjointed manner on some stories in the e-edition.
    Lauren Gustus, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 July 2021
  • After the game started in disjointed style, the Lions snapped the Fire defense with a single chance in the 51st minute.
    Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Last year, in the wake of electoral upheaval, street protests and a disjointed, politicized response to the pandemic, the U.S. fell to a +5.
    John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The pessimism is in the disjointed effort, the lack of a cohesive approach.
    Steven Levy, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020
  • But, there’s a disjointed quality to everything, a sense that the film exists to play out the string.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Still, the 7 A.M. sunlight seemed brighter than usual, and the water rippled in a disjointed way, like a film reel missing a few frames.
    Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Instead, focus on the under and expect both teams to look a bit disjointed.
    Adam Burke Vsin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2021
  • And yet her arms and shoulders snapped, twisted and became disjointed a thousand times in my mind.
    Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • But the elements of these first works, made when the artist was just entering his 30s, feel disjointed and rambling.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • But students say the rollout of remote work has felt disjointed.
    Sarah Baird, The New Republic, 25 Mar. 2020
  • In honesty, the '4-4-2' that ended that game seemed like a disjointed and randomly picked set of West Ham players.
    SI.com, 20 Oct. 2019
  • For coach Gregg Popovich, the process of reassembling the puzzle has not been seamless during an at-times disjointed 4-3 start.
    Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Sweden punched first in a challenging, disjointed match for the Americans, scoring off a set piece in the 38th minute.
    Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Help lift employees from the mess of disjointed, dark data, and empower them to do more.
    Derek Wang, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • One such innovation in the latter is a disjointed, flat-string, hard-to-track supply chain.
    Amy X. Wang Grant Cornett, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • Next week, as president, Joseph R. Biden Jr. will take charge of what has been perhaps the world’s most disjointed response to the pandemic.
    New York Times, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Starts off promising but by the second act becomes a disjointed & uneven mess.
    Jolie Lash, EW.com, 17 June 2021
  • The toothless hosts, which remain seventh in the table, couldn't recover and yet again looked disjointed and blunt in attack.
    Ben Church, CNN, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Even worse, a disjointed second-story layout lacked much of an ocean view, and the foundation was sinking into the earth.
    Kelly Dawson, Sunset Magazine, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Our sports world, which normally provides it, is a disjointed mess.
    John Canzano, oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Ye’s provocations grew both stranger and more disjointed.
    Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The fatal confusion of the United States’ response to the coronavirus crisis is now moving to a more disjointed stage: the rush to reopen.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 May 2020
  • Heightened by the gloomy backdrop of a cold, damp day in New Jersey, the Lions loss was a disjointed, messy affair from opening to closing whistle.
    Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 29 May 2021
  • But by the numbers, this year’s crew, though disjointed in its playing time, has been slightly more aggressive and successful at trying to pile up the easy points at the top.
    Nathan Brown, Indianapolis Star, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Alice becomes the center of the novel, and her presence seems to be the only connection between the two compelling but disjointed halves of this book.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2022
  • But after that United slumped in to a lazy and disjointed performance, marred by a series of misplaced passes.
    Sam Pilger, Forbes, 19 May 2021

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