How to Use disorient in a Sentence

disorient

verb

• Thick fog can disorient even an experienced hiker.
• The Nuggets had a 24-point lead in the third quarter and used their size advantage to disorient the Heat.
  — Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 2 June 2023
• Another room spins to disorient the guests while clowns jump around on the walls.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2022
• Secured in the vault, Bemis was disoriented after the bombs did their work, the blasts blew the vault door open.
  — Mike Oliver | [e-mail], al, 17 Aug. 2019
• Except, as UConn fans would agree, this is the good kind of disorienting.
  — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2024
• Groggy and disoriented, Mave staggered to her feet and bound up the stump of her left arm with some cloth.
  — Nick Turse, Teen Vogue, 14 Nov. 2018
• By then, they were disoriented and had to use the hose from the Hookahmax to guide them out of the underwater hole.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 28 June 2023
• Blinded and disoriented, Alt had to feel his way along a fence up the sandy hill to the parking lot where his friends were sleeping in the car.
  — CBS News, 9 June 2018
• Blinded and disoriented, Alt had to feel his way along a fence up the sandy hill to the parking lot where his friends were sleeping in the car.
  — Richard Schlesinger, CBS News, 6 July 2024
• Those bright city lights attract birds and then disorient them.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 14 Apr. 2021
• Not making an effort in the morning will slow down your day and disorient you.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2020
• All around curved a tall LED screen, blank until a white, disorienting stripe flashed to one side or the other.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2023
• Spending time in such a place is disorienting, like standing on a radar map with blips of light on all sides.
  — By Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
• Behind the scenes, the former President was livid and disoriented at the abrupt turn of events.
  — Brian Bennett, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024
• At the same time, something about a call just for white people could feel disorienting.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 1 Aug. 2024
• Many seemed stunned, and somewhat disoriented, to have reached the United States.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
• All the lights at night disorient them and can interfere with their ability to find a mate.
  — Sarah Bowman, USA TODAY, 2 July 2022
• At first, all these Scorpio vibes may feel a bit disorienting, but don’t fret.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 30 Sep. 2018
• The very fact that Hannah was taken out of school and to the hospital for a mild fever is disorienting to June, who was busy at work and missed the school’s calls.
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Apr. 2018
• Such a rapid offense is meant to disorient and overwhelm a target.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• Flashbangs are stun grenades that are used by police to disorient the target of a warrant with a blinding flash of light and loud bang.
  — al, 20 July 2021
• In the first debate Biden seemed at times disoriented, mouth agape, even freezing up.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2024
• Meanwhile, the Swedish attack appeared to disorient the U.S. backline, tearing up the left flank.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Apr. 2021
• The police said the agent told them she was approached from behind, and knocked to the ground, becoming disoriented.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• As jarring and disorienting as that can feel, just know that the cards say things are happening as they are supposed to.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Aug. 2024
• As jarring and disorienting as that can feel, just know that the cards say things are happening as they are supposed to.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2024
• The effect is disorienting but rarely opaque, because on the sentence level Mr. Olsen is a fine, clear stylist.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
• When an officer pulled him out, the man was disoriented, without shoes, and wearing shorts and a T-shirt.
  — Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
• Through this test program, the USDA hopes to perfect the best ways to get moths to reproduce in the lab and give them the right dose of radiation that will sterilize them but not severely injure or disorient them.
  — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024
• The performance came 10 months after Hough's social media posts in December that detailed a post-Symphony of Dance tour stop where his wife became disoriented and was taken to the hospital.
  — Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024