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
• 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
• 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
• All the lights at night disorient them and can interfere with their ability to find a mate.
  — Sarah Bowman, USA TODAY, 2 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Never take hold of a leash or harness from a service dog handler — doing so can disorient the handler, the dog or both.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2021
• The opening pause bursts open a door to heady confusion, woozy guitar, and all-around disorienting vibes.
  — Jessica Gentile, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
• Vomero and his crew seemed disoriented by the casual spontaneity of Clemens and his team.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
• In the ’70s, however, Crump wanted to disorient guests before bringing them to the ride’s large ending scene.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2021
• The van seemed to drive in circles in an attempt to disorient Bassi, making looping turns, according to her lawyer, Juan Chavez.
  — oregonlive, 20 May 2022
• O’Dell had walked to the front door in his underwear and saw an elderly man who appeared to be disoriented.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• The report says that haze likely obscured the horizon the evening of the fateful flight, causing Kennedy to become disoriented.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
• The disorienting power of adolescent life didn’t push you alone to feel like an outcast.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• And the sequence not only gives the viewer clues about Bojack’s disorienting headspace, but forces us into it.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 13 Feb. 2020
• When the lake becomes too hot, dolphins can get disoriented.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• Bruce Frankel claims he was injured when the officer restrained him while he was disoriented after the seizure.
  — Cameron MacDonald, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
• Will Wood promote Malamar from the bench to disorient his opponent?
  — Ben Sledge, Ars Technica, 4 June 2020
• And the thick, uncomfortably hard goose-feather pillow beneath the wife’s head, which made her neck ache—this, too, was disorienting.
  — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
• The film has a sense of stylization that was unusual for low-budget films of the moment, creating a disorienting world of pink.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• One of the guest rooms contains an upholstered daybed by the British sculptor Rachel Whiteread that’s a disorienting blend of negative and positive shapes, with open shafts where the legs should be.
  — Travis Diehl Dean Kaufman, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• Dark sky lighting ensures the turtles will not get disoriented during their journey from land to sea.
  — Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024