How to Use disordered in a Sentence

disordered

adjective
  • The project was in a disordered state.
  • The file was completely disordered.
  • But by the time Howard hit her teens, her disordered eating habits were full-blown.
    Elizabeth Koh and Carol Marbin Miller, miamiherald, 24 May 2018
  • Instead, a large box with hundreds of disordered pages showed up, along with a bill for $500.
    Harlan M. Krumholz, STAT, 27 Jan. 2020
  • All of these are networks of nodes, where the connections between nodes are disordered.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 June 2018
  • These virtues are in constant battle against the entropy of our disordered nature.
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Like Lee, Chen has wrestled with her body image and disordered eating.
    Rosalie Chan, SELF, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Over the years, Kesha has been open about her struggles with disordered eating and mental illness.
    Jeff Nelson, PEOPLE.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • That's the iron law of thermodynamics that states that closed systems go from ordered to disordered.
    Paul Sutter, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Your children should not pay the price for your wife’s disordered and unstable behavior.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Of course, not every food routine is a sign of an eating disorder or disordered eating.
    Kimberly Truong, SELF, 29 Jan. 2019
  • His disordered behavior will keep on harming the country for the duration of his tenure.
    Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The disordered purpose of work has far-reaching consequences.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • By contrast, there are urgent reasons to pitch into the cause of rescuing the word debate from its currently disordered state.
    Patty Limerick, The Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Having grown up in a disordered household, Jayne ran hers with a fastidious rigor.
    Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2019
  • One character embeds rose thorns in her feet; several have very disordered eating habits; people die too young, go to war and hold in their cells and minds the memories of past trauma.
    Ramona Ausubel, New York Times, 4 July 2018
  • This article contains spoilers for To the Bone and descriptions of disordered eating.
    Robbie Ann Darby, SELF, 14 July 2017
  • The campaign in Nevada is as disordered as anything else in the Democratic race, according to people closely watching the contest there.
    Alexander Burns, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Until now, the government had been sending mixed messages, which had led to disordered behavior.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2020
  • For anyone with a history of disordered eating, counting calories might be something to avoid.
    Abby Langer, SELF, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Conversely, the layout of more disordered cities like Boston​ actually releases the warmth that could have been trapped by buildings and pavements.
    Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
  • There are so many people with disordered eating who could be treated as outpatients, but to diagnose and treat [them], the person has to meet certain criteria.
    Washington Post, 24 July 2019
  • The former Disney Channel star has been open about her battles with addiction, mental illness and disordered eating for years.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2018
  • This was the disordered and unruly world Lincoln experienced.
    Gordon S. Wood, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Despite the strides made around bringing disordered eating to the fore, major misconceptions persist.
    Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Alexis Ren has had quite a year, from her breakup with fellow Insta star Jay Alvarrez to openly speaking out about her struggles with disordered eating.
    The Editors, Cosmopolitan, 8 July 2017
  • Lovato has been very open about her struggles with eating disorders and disordered eating habits.
    Cory Stieg, refinery29.com, 3 July 2019
  • But Anderson realized that when waves move through highly complex or disordered spaces, like a room with very irregular walls, the waves can trap themselves in place.
    Quanta Magazine, 22 Aug. 2017
  • More houseguests follow, bringing more chaos along with them, until Lawrence and Bardem’s country home begins to feel like the epicenter of an unhappy and disordered universe.
    Scott Meslow, GQ, 15 Sep. 2017
  • One beauty blogger is baring all, shedding her clothes and sharing her story about surviving years of disordered eating, triggered in part by being shamed for her size.
    Blake Bakkila, Health.com, 16 Apr. 2018

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