How to Use orderliness in a Sentence

orderliness

noun
  • One of the most promising ones, this week, has been the orderliness of their exits.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Tim much preferred the orderliness of planned uploads, when the work was tidy.
    Lexi Pandell, Wired, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Those rooms have the overstuffed charm of an antiques shop but the orderliness of the Met, with a dash of celebrity-bus-tour glamour.
    Jazmine Hughes, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • And there is a way that Evelyn’s orderliness appeals to him.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Just the route comes to mind, the repetition and orderliness of following the same path.
    Sarah Fay, Longreads, 17 Mar. 2020
  • The story of the Summer of Love, like so many things that summer, defies orderliness.
    Alan Solomon, sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Wandering around the Belfast set, the scope and the orderliness of the enterprise is staggering.
    TIME.com, 30 June 2017
  • Emanuel can barely sit still; Japan prizes calm and orderliness.
    Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
  • To watch The West Wing is to spend time in a different paradigm—to be whisked back in time to a moment when news still gave the illusion of orderliness.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2019
  • In fact, while some Virgos are the picture of orderliness and service, most are naturally drawn to a holy mess.
    Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 12 June 2021
  • There were clues to Kelly’s alignment with Trump all along, but they were overshadowed by the focus on his orderliness.
    David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Other than its size and relative orderliness, one thing sets this place apart.
    Jon Marcus, Washington Post, 1 May 2017
  • The visual appeal derives from a sense of orderliness just beyond reach.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • At first, there was a quaintly naïve orderliness to her preparations.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Before omicron, before the injuries that altered the balance of the rotation, there was an orderliness to the equation.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Jan. 2022
  • There was a sense of orderliness, a surface calm, to the early Nixon administration.
    Tim Naftali, Slate Magazine, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Gestation is considered a full-time job; the days at Golden Oaks have the same intense orderliness of a factory floor.
    Jessica Weisberg, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The Naked Man at first appears very orderly, but Wood overlaid the orderliness with random brushstrokes.
    Danny Wilcox Frazier, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The hidden long-range order of this putative state could rival the more obvious orderliness of a crystal.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2020
  • All those vines stretching in tight formation across the floor and up the hills give Napa Valley an aura of orderliness as well as prosperity.
    Mike Dunne, sacbee, 23 May 2018
  • Greatly moved by the orderliness and intelligence of the natural world, Emerson began to accept the place of death and decay within it.
    Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The orderliness of Chicago’s space spoke to the discipline required to produce works of art that are direct, personal and exposing.
    Sasha Weiss, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Wood’s orderliness and his precision enabled him to boil down this feeling, to put it wordlessly on canvas.
    Danny Wilcox Frazier, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The foundations of orderliness for any city are planning and management.
    Ndubisi Onwuanyi, Quartz Africa, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Because Japan, a country that prides itself on its discipline and orderliness, places that same pressure to be punctual on train staff.
    Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 20 May 2021
  • In a country known for its picturesque landscapes and orderliness, the out-of-control wildfires have stoked unease and underlined the perils of global warming.
    Dan Bilefsky, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
  • The outward orderliness of the trial collapsed within hours, when the jury sent more notes that revealed details about the deliberations.
    Alan Blinder, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2016
  • The former Army medical technician had served on a Navy hospital ship and still keeps that ethos of orderliness to his outbuildings today.
    Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The pound, seen as a barometer of sorts on the orderliness of Brexit talks, hasn’t rallied with any gusto in recent weeks despite a succession of announcements that a draft deal was imminent.
    Paul Hannon, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
  • The orderliness, which relies on a mutual assumption of good faith, benefits all sides, Shortland told me.
    Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021

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