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Example sentences for "orderly"

Lexicographically close words:
ordereth; ordering; orderlie; orderlies; orderliness; orders; ordeyne; ordeyned; ordher; ordhered
  1. At the brotherhood was orderly calm, thoughtful silence, cool, clear walls, and whispering sound of slippered feet.

  2. The wartime Navy had been composed overwhelmingly of reservists and inductees, and shortly after V-J day the Navy announced plans for the orderly separation of all reservists by September 1946.

  3. If carried out, such an agreement would complicate an orderly and controlled integration, and Collins's desire for change was clearly tempered by his concern for order and control.

  4. The Air Transport Command admitted in 1946 that it was too expensive to maintain, as the command was obligated to do, separate and equal housing and messing, including separate orderly and day rooms for black airmen.

  5. Moreover, with his concept of orderly and controlled social change threatened by the rapid rise in the number of black soldiers, Collins himself would need to assess the effects of racial mixing in a fluid manpower situation.

  6. The commandant's program for the orderly induction and assignment (p.

  7. DuBois, Walter White, and Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP and Lester Granger of the National Urban League were in the mainstream of the American reform movement, which stressed an orderly petitioning of government for a redress of grievances.

  8. This point of view has next to be correlated with corresponding practical experience acquired by practical civic life, but "aiming at a larger and more orderly conception of civic action.

  9. Hence this simple geographical method of treatment must here be pled for as fundamental to any really orderly and comparative treatment of our subject.

  10. It is in fact only as we can agree upon some definite and orderly method of description that our existing literature of social surveys can be adequately compared or new ones co-operatively undertaken.

  11. In theory, the particulars are all neatly disposed of; they come under their appropriate heading and category; they are labelled and go into an orderly pigeon-hole in a systematic filing cabinet, labelled political science or sociology.

  12. The web is orderly and elaborate, but it is only a trap.

  13. Were it not more simple to accept what life sent in its orderly course instead of striving for an impossible and shadowy ideal?

  14. His attention ran along the orderly row of little stones--a third and a fourth time.

  15. His superior's own room was orderly as usual, and Dacent Smith himself, who occupied a deep leather-covered chair at the hearth, rose and greeted him with a cordial handshake.

  16. He then hurriedly followed the orderly into the mess-room, where the adjutant nightly locked the bag with his key.

  17. At her command the butler threw open the doors, and disclosed lines of shelves so arranged as to accommodate, in the most compact and orderly form imaginable, several dozens of pies.

  18. The enemy retired in an orderly manner for about three or four miles, when they formed up to make a stand, evidently thinking we were afraid to press them too closely.

  19. A gala meeting on a Northumberland or Durham moor was one thing, but men proceeding together in orderly fashion to soberly demand a right or strenuously protest against a wrong was another.

  20. On the following evening the audience was largely increased, and numbered at least 5000 persons, who were orderly and attentive throughout.

  21. The Glasgow Daily Bulletin, giving a few words to the final night, says that "the speaking during the evening was excellent and occasionally excited, but the conduct of the audience was orderly in the extreme.

  22. After the meeting (which had been a fairly orderly one) Mr Bradlaugh relates how he was followed to his lodgings "by a mob who had not been present at the lecture, and who yelled and shouted in real collier fashion.

  23. The merely formal part of the discharge is made out in his own handwriting as orderly room clerk.

  24. When the time came, procession after procession marched in orderly fashion to the park gates, and the meeting became a truly magnificent one, composed as it was mainly of respectable working men, thoroughly earnest in their desire for Reform.

  25. Nothing daunted, in September he went to Norwich again, and the orderly behaviour of his audience formed a marked contrast to their previous conduct.

  26. When he was orderly room clerk, and was not compelled to ride so often, then he took a liking for it, and then he really learned to sit and manage his horse.

  27. I may observe that during the last eighteen months this man has been occupying rather a prominent situation in the regiment, being that of orderly room clerk, and has consequently been immediately under my notice.

  28. Now a solitary orderly galloped down from division headquarters bearing a message to a brigade commander.

  29. The second concerns his desires and aversions, and, generally, all that it becomes a man to be, so that he bear himself orderly and prudently and not heedlessly.

  30. And how is it possible that a state or a house cannot endure, no not for the shortest time, without a governor and overseer, but this so great and fair fabric should be guided thus orderly by chance and accident?

  31. May it please the Court, my understanding was that any interruption of this reading would be made by counsel, in an orderly manner, not by the accused who is not at present under oath.

  32. If it please the Court, I will offer these two letters and photograph for admission in evidence, but, if they are accepted, I will have the letters read to the jury somewhat later, to make a more orderly presentation.

  33. He had been an officer's orderly in his day, and when he left the Army and came to Chadlands, he never departed again.

  34. Everything appeared to be orderly in the room.

  35. I wondered how Father would take this interruption of his "ancient and solitary reign," and if he would regret the peaceful, orderly Christmas Eves he and I had always spent together.

  36. We had determined to astonish and delight her by the quiet and orderly way we would get out of the building.

  37. He was a singularly orderly old man to be so charming.

  38. I do not think as a rule that very orderly persons are apt to be charming.

  39. The following classification shows you in how many ways potatoes may be cooked, and also shows you how easy it is to classify recipes in an orderly way.

  40. It is well worth while to spend time in the careful arrangement of the tray, for pretty dishes in orderly array may tempt the appetite of the invalid.

  41. Clothing should be kept in an orderly way by each member of the family.

  42. Orderly table service, good manners, and cheerful conversation are very important factors in the success of a meal.

  43. An orderly and an unexcited audience would have no difficulty in getting out, for there were two large doors opening from the first circle on to the corridor, which in turn led to the movable doors referred to.

  44. In a moment he was back again at the theatre, exerting himself to the utmost to quiet the people in the lower lobby, and have them leave in an orderly way, so that all might get out safe.

  45. He was seen working bravely in the vestibule of the theatre, trying to get the panic-stricken people to move out in an orderly manner.

  46. Under the orders of Sather Karf, the camp sprang into frenzied but orderly activity.

  47. An orderly let out the news that you are here," she said.

  48. We've sent out a doppelganger to fool the Sons, and the orderly has been sentenced to slavery under the pyramid builder for twenty lifetimes.

  49. As we sat down to the stew which our orderly had compounded with the assistance of the ingenious Mr. Maconochie, the Camp Commandant sighed heavily.

  50. Our orderly wept and made no effort to hide his tears.

  51. Then the orderly transplanted some pansies and forget-me-nots from the garden of a ruined house, and made a border in front of the company commander's dug-out.

  52. At the door stood an orderly with a red armlet bearing the imprint of the letters "M.

  53. I never knew there was so much individuality in the British Army," the orderly officer dolefully exclaimed as he contemplated a pile of letters waiting to be franked and betraying marked originality in their penmanship.

  54. The sous-officier nearly wept with joy when, a moment later, the orderly upset the soup.

  55. It is as useless to argue with an Indian orderly as it is to try conclusions with a woman.

  56. The orderly officer had a pile of letters on his right impressed with a red triangle, and contemplated the completion of his labours with gloomy satisfaction.

  57. A military car with a driver and an orderly in shaggy furs awaited us outside on the Place de la Concorde.

  58. For a waiter to find himself waited upon was, he confided to me as the orderly brought in the soup, a peculiarly satisfying experience.

  59. Instinctively we bared our heads, and as we walked from one grave to another I could hear the orderly behind us muttering words of prayer.

  60. Having done which, they proceeded to take an unsympathetic farewell of the orderly officer whom they found in the orderly room engaged in reading character by handwriting with the aid of the office stamp.

  61. A household is a place where a family is provided for, where there is a regular and orderly supply of ordinary needs.

  62. This is the great principle vindicated in the compressed and fiery arguments of the Epistle to the Galatians, and then subsequently developed in the calmer and orderly procedure of the Epistle to the Romans.

  63. To-day San Francisco is one of the most orderly and best governed cities in the United States.

  64. The camps were in consequence orderly and safe.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    orderly arrangement; orderly sergeant