How to Use orderly in a Sentence

orderly

1 of 2 adjective
  • Please exit the building in an orderly fashion.
  • Outside the theater, an orderly line of people waited to buy tickets.
  • She sorted the information into orderly categories.
  • Like Blair’s, my body does not move through the world in an orderly way.
    Fortesa Latifi, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
  • One view, at least in Europe, is that the decline there will be slow and orderly.
    Tom Fairless, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Despite the number of people, the line was calm and orderly.
    The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2023
  • The long-stroke spool and one-piece bail fight tangles and promote orderly line lay on the retrieve.
    Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
  • The initial lines to exit the city were long—but also very orderly.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The scene is savage, but after the mayhem is over, all turns orderly.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The movie opens on a beating metronome, which seems to set the orderly, clockwork rhythm of Morricone’s life.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Everything is orderly, but in a way that feels serene rather than strict.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 31 July 2023
  • But in the days of November and December, this was -- this was an orderly process.
    CBS News, 2 July 2023
  • But in the days of November and December, this was- this was an orderly process.
    CBS News, 2 July 2023
  • If anything, the succession of scenes might be a touch too orderly.
    Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
  • For most of the day, the sky stays a constant blue, the horizon punctuated by the orderly fronds of date palm trees grown on nearby farms.
    Emma Grillo Kitra Cahana, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2023
  • But sometimes the pain does not play out in such an orderly and predictable way, as the trouble in the banking system makes clear.
    Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Even though the stops were made in a very orderly, straight-line manner, fade was apparent and the brake pedal bottomed out on the third try.
    Car and Driver, 13 Jan. 2023
  • At the moment, all of that money can't be accessed and likely will have to be released in an orderly process.
    Ken Sweet, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2023
  • But she was long gone, like everything else that had been stable and orderly in his life.
    Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Halfway up, where Forest Service land ends and the Crooks’ begins, the brush is cleared and small trees stand growing in orderly lines.
    Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2023
  • Here’s the premise: A murder occurs in an orderly world where robots are unable to kill humans.
    Andrew Webster, The Verge, 4 July 2023
  • Asked about her favorite place in the house, the owner indicates her orderly dressing room.
    Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2024
  • When the sun is at its quietest, with nary a sunspot, its magnetic field is strong and orderly, with a tidy magnetic pole at the star’s top and bottom.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Align the block of color with your horizontal element of choice to achieve a crisp, orderly look.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Miss Manners hears that word a lot from people who do not want to follow procedures that have been worked out to make things orderly.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • At the moment, uninsured deposits can't be accessed and likely will have to be released in an orderly process.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2023
  • And so all of that information needs to be tendered to the defense in an orderly and catalog way.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • There’s no better way to enter the new year than with a clean, orderly space — a feat that can be easily achieved with the help of space organizers.
    Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 31 Dec. 2023
  • And those who did come to vote in-person cast their ballots in an orderly and respectful fashion.
    CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Inside, health and beauty products were displayed on glass shelves in attractive pyramids and orderly rows.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
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orderly

2 of 2 noun
  • That was around 4 p.m., but an hour later, the orderlies still had not taken her for a CT scan.
    Kristi Pahr, Parents, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Other times, patients had to wait while orderlies roamed the halls looking for the gurneys or wheelchairs needed to get things rolling.
    Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Two orderlies enter the house and start pulling Betty out…to Sisters of Quiet Mercy.
    Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 29 Nov. 2018
  • This same man has a job as an orderly in a psychiatric hospital.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • There’s a shot of a man buried in emerald-green shrubbery, then a shot of dark-green ivy on a hospital wall; a horror-film flash of a Hitler-like mask mimics the mod black-and-white outfits worn by the orderlies.
    Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Some were made for families back home, others to be sold and a few by orderlies as gifts for their commanding officers.
    Roberta Smith, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
  • In a photo, Correa can be seen sitting in a wheelchair attended by at least six deputies, three nurses or orderlies and another man out of uniform.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The first person in the county to get vaccinated was an elderly orderly in the hospital’s emergency department, based on his front-line job and age.
    Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Some are at the instruction of corrupt police chief Rasheed (Mohit Takalkar), now using his supposedly dead orderly to do his dirty work without trace.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 May 2023
  • White patients, white doctors, white nurses, white orderlies.
    oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The trio are some combination of orderlies and couriers, riding motorcycles through lethal terrain—marked with stakes to show where the bombs lie—to ferry patients or secure supplies.
    Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 29 Jan. 2020
  • And now, so do UPS drivers, and postal workers, and agricultural field hands, and hospital orderlies, and a whole range of people whose jobs require them to continue to work with others despite the dangers and lockdowns.
    Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The arrival of the character, who appears to Pat in a dream-like state, finally explains the photo Pat saw as she was being committed in the Season 1 finale — an image of an old asylum orderly who looked a lot like Rosemary.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Most direct patient care at UTH is provided not by nurses or orderlies, but family members.
    Oliver Staley, Quartz Africa, 30 Dec. 2019
  • For the next week, she'll be surrounded by orderlies and other patients, either numbed out on drug cocktails or violently unstable.
    refinery29.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Just as the medical system depends on the lowest paid of the health workers—the orderlies and custodians—the food system, now that restaurants have been limited to takeout and delivery, depends on a whole cadre of men pedalling bicycles.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020
  • The young family moved into a public-housing project and spent a difficult period subsisting on Spam and powdered milk—often purchased with food stamps—while Reed worked as an orderly at a psychiatric hospital.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • So the women of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital line the hallway with female faces—doctors, nurses, orderlies, administrative staff—and physically block male staff from entering space.
    Abby Gardner, Glamour, 29 Mar. 2019
  • Yet hundreds of thousands of Russians like Private Ovlashenko — factory laborers and electricians, medical orderlies and basketball players, tractor drivers and school workers — went off to war.
    Milana Mazaeva, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The doctors—and nurses, orderlies, pharmacists, administrative staff, and others—are also trying to understand how the disease works and what distinguishes it from other illnesses with similar symptoms.
    Erik Sherman, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Black workers are also overrepresented in high-contact essential services, making up 33% of nursing assistants and 39% of hospital orderlies.
    Jeff Green, Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
  • That was around 4 p.m., but an hour later, the orderlies still had not taken her for a CT scan.
    Kristi Pahr, Parents, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Other times, patients had to wait while orderlies roamed the halls looking for the gurneys or wheelchairs needed to get things rolling.
    Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Two orderlies enter the house and start pulling Betty out…to Sisters of Quiet Mercy.
    Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 29 Nov. 2018
  • This same man has a job as an orderly in a psychiatric hospital.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • There’s a shot of a man buried in emerald-green shrubbery, then a shot of dark-green ivy on a hospital wall; a horror-film flash of a Hitler-like mask mimics the mod black-and-white outfits worn by the orderlies.
    Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Some were made for families back home, others to be sold and a few by orderlies as gifts for their commanding officers.
    Roberta Smith, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
  • In a photo, Correa can be seen sitting in a wheelchair attended by at least six deputies, three nurses or orderlies and another man out of uniform.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The first person in the county to get vaccinated was an elderly orderly in the hospital’s emergency department, based on his front-line job and age.
    Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Some are at the instruction of corrupt police chief Rasheed (Mohit Takalkar), now using his supposedly dead orderly to do his dirty work without trace.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 May 2023

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