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Example sentences for "disorganised"

Lexicographically close words:
disordering; disorderly; disorders; disordinate; disorganisation; disorganising; disorganization; disorganize; disorganized; disorganizing
  1. There is no doubt that, had the advance of the cavalry been allowed to continue, the enemy's disorganised retreat would have been turned into a rout" (Sir D.

  2. The moderation and restraint, which had won the hearts of the citizens, worked their magic even in the disorganised rabble which he was remodelling into an army.

  3. He alleged the disorganised state of the army, which might move on, though it was incapable of stopping.

  4. Harassed as he passed the defiles of Eckartsberg, by the light troops of the allies, he pushed on to Erfurt, where he hoped to be able to make some pause, and restore order to his disorganised followers.

  5. Our army," says General Johnston, "was more disorganised by victory than that of the United States by defeat.

  6. So runs Jackson's official report, and when the disorganised condition of the Federal battalions, as they fled north from Winchester, is recalled, it is difficult to question the opinion therein expressed.

  7. Springing from his horse, he hurriedly expressed his regret, and added that his lines were so much disorganised by the enemy's artillery that he feared it would be necessary to fall back.

  8. He will, doubtless, gain many of them; and the Federalists will become a disorganised and contemptible party.

  9. What surprised me most was to hear of the disorganised state of Washington's army--the want of food and clothing from which it was suffering, and the utter insufficiency of all the commissariat arrangements.

  10. The reports were that the whole of the American forces were completely disorganised and disheartened, and that they would never again be able to make head against the royalists.

  11. He never had any intention of letting his Marching Men Movement become merely a disorganised band of walkers such as we have all seen in many a labour parade.

  12. The country is like a vast disorganised undisciplined army, leaderless, uninspired, going in route-step along the road to they know not what end.

  13. He thought he would like to tell her of his life in the city and of how disorganised and ineffective all modern life seemed to him.

  14. I hate you because you are weak and disorganised like cattle.

  15. Again in fancy he saw the disorganised miners tumbling out of the saloon to stand on the street swearing and threatening and again he was filled with contempt for them.

  16. Standing in the doorway and looking up and down the bleak village street, some dim realisation of the disorganised ineffectiveness of life as he knew it came into the mind of the McGregor boy.

  17. The truth was, and it is to this cause that we must trace the present disorganised state of the Court, and indeed of the Duchy, that the Grand Duke had secretly married a lady to whom he had long been attached.

  18. I could feel from my bed the suddenly disorganised house, the distressed friends, the new-born solicitude.

  19. But it was the very slightness of these bibelots that disorganised me.

  20. In May 1765, he reached Calcutta; and he found the whole machine of government even more fearfully disorganised than he had anticipated.

  21. At Madras, Hastings found the trade of the Company in a very disorganised state.

  22. Better armed and provisioned, and of greater physical courage, the Spahis soon succeeded in overcoming these disorganised masses, and bloody was the vengeance which they took.

  23. The Syrians were wanting neither in efficiency nor bravery, but their country was much disorganised and their number of fighting men by no means so great as their enemy’s.

  24. Succeeds to a united Egypt but a disorganised empire.

  25. So far they had won, but two of them thought that nothing further could be done with this disorganised mob.

  26. Still moving south-east, General French's columns made their way to Piet Retief upon the Swazi frontier, pushing a disorganised array which he computed at 5000 in front of them.

  27. The tendency of the British had been to treat their antagonists as a broken and disorganised banditti, but with the breaking of the spring they were sharply reminded that the burghers were still capable of a formidable and coherent effort.

  28. The Boers, a great disorganised cloud of horsemen, swept swiftly along the northern bank of the Vaal, seeking for a place to cross, while the British rode furiously after them, spraying them with shrapnel at every opportunity.

  29. In the early part of the war they were often, when victorious, nearly as disorganised as the beaten, and many would coolly walk off home, under the impression that they had performed their share.

  30. The attack was pressed without giving the enemy breathing-space, and he was becoming disorganised and showing signs of confusion.

  31. The pill-box, it was agreed, disorganised our assaulting waves, although it did not stop them.

  32. Opposed to them were the Vladimir columns, supported as before on either hand by the Kayan columns, that on the British right sadly disorganised by its sanguinary encounter with the Royal Fusiliers.

  33. The French, on the contrary, were depressed by an unexpected defeat; and, greatly disorganised and wearied by long marches, were certain of being materially inconvenienced by an immediate advance of the British.

  34. In this unfortunate mêlée, the British cavalry seized on the moment of confusion, and plunging into the mass, cut down and disorganised the regiments which had hitherto been unbroken.

  35. It emerges in tense and disorganised moments.

  36. When life is profoundly disorganised it may well happen that only in detached episodes, only in moments snatched for dreaming in, can men see the blue or catch a glimpse of something like the ideal.

  37. No wonder, I thought, the shock had disorganised my whole brain.

  38. It was the firing of the pistol that obliterated, as it were, every trace of your past life in your disorganised brain.

  39. Everywhere bayonets began to glimmer through the smoke and dust, as the disorganised squadrons rallied and galloped eastward, seeking vainly for shelter to reform.

  40. This considerably disorganised the party and added greatly to their work.

  41. It cost us over an hour and disorganised our party.

  42. It reminded me of a regatta or a somewhat disorganised fleet with ships of very unequal speed.


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