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Example sentences for "disjointed"

Lexicographically close words:
disinterring; disjecta; disjoin; disjoined; disjoint; disjunct; disjunction; disjunctive; disk; disked
  1. This movement had wholly disjointed Sherman's plan of keeping the three armies upon separate lines of march.

  2. But it does seem to me there must be good sense enough left on this continent to give order and shape to the now disjointed elements of government.

  3. After awhile, he began to remember a few disjointed fragments of what the judge had said: though it had seemed to him, at the time, that he could not hear a word.

  4. Her statement is mixed and disjointed and there are repetitions.

  5. North Eutaw Street) but it is so disjointed as to be unintelligible, and I will not put it in here.

  6. The snob's soul within him bows down to the authority of great men, yet he produces their great thoughts in disjointed and distorted shape.

  7. Presently he muttered, almost as if to himself, certain disjointed phrases.

  8. He would have lingered longer, trying to pierce the riddle from these disjointed remarks, but they were interrupted by Tommy Esmond, who came bustling into the hall, flushed with victory.

  9. Then, as delirium won again over his tortured senses and disjointed thoughts, he shouted the name of Beatrice time after time out into the echoing dark that brooded over the great waters.

  10. Here and there, a disjointed bit recurred to him, even from out of the delirium that had followed the blow on the head.

  11. Allan heard from her, in a few disjointed words, all she knew of the kidnapping.

  12. She laughed lightly, however, at his sallies as they talked--the disjointed intermittent conversation of people who are far from the subject under discussion.

  13. The ruins of ancient cities offer no attraction to the traveller in this island, as nothing is to be seen upon the surface except disjointed stones and a few fallen columns of the commonest description.

  14. Descending a steep but well-trodden path between these cottage-like masses of disjointed rock, we arrived at the prettiest camping-ground that I had seen in Cyprus.

  15. This was now a mere line of loose and disjointed stones.

  16. What was the meaning of these disjointed phrases?

  17. Yes, my disjointed fragments take, But do not ask how much they'll make.

  18. Take my disjointed fragments then, The offspring of a willing pen.

  19. He waved an arm in the air shouting frantically, and through the thud of paddles she caught the disjointed sentences, "Very sorry.

  20. They were then found to be so large and massive as to be quite unsuited for the purpose for which they were intended, so they were thrown down on the ground in a disjointed condition, where they now lie, rusting and half-buried in weeds.

  21. She ran to him, and with disjointed talk and quavering utterance disclosed the present lamentable posture of affairs.

  22. Susan Hetth's disjointed remarks sounded like the clatter of a pair of runaway mules, while Leonie clasped her hands tight as she sat crouched on her stool.

  23. The mild disposition of the king, and the prudence of the prince, tempered the insolence of victory, and gradually restored order to the several members of the state, disjointed by so long a continuance of civil wars and commotions.

  24. That they might not, however, be altogether wanting to themselves in this extreme necessity, the English took some steps towards adjusting their disjointed government, and uniting themselves against the common enemy.

  25. The increase of Receivers of stolen Goods to be attributed to the imperfection of the Laws, and to the disjointed state of the Police of the Metropolis.

  26. His mind had no more real depth than a looking-glass with a crack in it, and its images were disjointed and confused.

  27. So mysterious a text was naturally believed to be a work on divination; and accepting this cue, the commentators devoted their energies to forcing into the Procrustean bed of divination the disjointed phrases which follow the diagrams.

  28. Durkin bowed to the stroke, and even made belated and disjointed efforts of appeasement.

  29. He had much to tell in his irritating, disjointed way.

  30. Pierre, for some moments past, had gradually ceased the restless tossing of his head, and was forgetting to utter short, disjointed words.

  31. I know half the names and faces in the neighborhood in that detached, disjointed way.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disjointed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.