How to Use dislocation in a Sentence

dislocation

noun

• He out indefinitely with a partial dislocation of his left kneecap.
  — oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2020
• The wave of evictions caused by the coronavirus could swamp even the massive dislocation caused by the collapse of the US housing bubble more than a decade ago.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 28 July 2020
• Was there a tell that the right hip dislocation, which had a fracture to the posterior wall surgically repaired last November, hasn’t fully healed?
  — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Sep. 2020
• In cases where girls are abducted or tricked into marrying out of state, their experiences of isolation, dislocation, and their struggle for a sense of belonging are much more nuanced.
  — Sreya Banerjea, Quartz India, 3 Oct. 2020
• Some two weeks into the war, the scale of the dislocation is immense.
  — Michael Bociurkiw, CNN, 10 Mar. 2022
• The opening scene is a brilliant feint of dislocation that sets the tone — and the din — of what follows.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2023
• Tied up with his sense of dislocation, the song haunted the author for years.
  — Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
• All of that dislocation has become a matrix that shapes the lives of the people Fern meets.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 18 Feb. 2021
• Prescott suffered the fracture and dislocation in the third quarter of a Week 5 matchup with the Giants.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2020
• As night fell, this mood, tinged with hints of dislocation and panic, took hold.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• It’s like a three-dimensional metaphor for the dislocation at the center of the book.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2022
• In this case, dislocation added perhaps an even greater force to his new work.
  — Cat Cardenas, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2024
• Both Adin and Murrani echoed the sense of dislocation that Branagh has spoken of in being forced to leave one’s home.
  — NBC News, 26 Mar. 2022
• Two weeks after the end of the Spurs’ season, White had surgery to correct a dislocation of the second toe on his left foot.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 2 Jan. 2021
• My life with the Sora has shown me the dislocation and pain that these streamlined accounts mask.
  — Piers Vitebsky, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
• Flap dislocation is when the flap used to open the top layer of the cornea reopens post-procedure.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2023
• In the fifth week of the 2020 season, Prescott suffered a compound fracture and a dislocation of his right ankle in a game against the New York Giants.
  — Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2022
• The team said Prescott had a fracture dislocation of the right ankle and was taken to a hospital, where surgery was planned later in the day.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Oct. 2020
• There is a great deal of truth in the film, and the dislocation between the silent generation and their children is real enough.
  — Armond White, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
• The more the correction is delayed, the greater the disruption and dislocation.
  — Eben Shapiro, Time, 6 June 2021
• And then all the rest of the songs are about yearning and dislocation in relationship, in one way or another.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 May 2024
• In the hallway, black-and-white photographs evoked decades of dislocation.
  — New York Times, 7 Nov. 2021
• Huerter is out with a left shoulder dislocation and labrum tear.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 29 Mar. 2024
• The core of the experience may be a sense of dislocation, of being newly and scarily mismatched to the world.
  — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• Real market dislocation may be ahead and that could result in a 10% or 15% drop in asking prices.
  — Adam Finkel, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• Threats to survival also emerge when war or other dislocations stop the movement of goods.
  — Ashish Kothari, Scientific American, 1 June 2021
• Both writers aimed to put their finger on the sense of dislocation felt by newcomers to L.A. in the ’30s and ’40s, a subject also plumbed by Chandler.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• What binds the tales are the ever-present tensions of dislocation and flagging hope, as governments dither over what to do with the asylum seekers.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• Such interventions were intended to be temporary, as risks would–naturally–return to their historical ranges and market dislocations would end.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 26 June 2024
• Capital controls and a series of legislative and diplomatic fixes limited international trade’s role in U.S. economic dislocations.
  — Leon Fink, The Conversation, 25 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024