How to Use discombobulate in a Sentence

discombobulate

verb

• The Bears offense was discombobulated at best for much of the first half.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• Arizona State became discombobulated for a stretch in the first half, but wore the Aggies down to pull away.
  — USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2017
• The 49ers’ offense was discombobulated for most of the night.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• Now is, of course, a discombobulating moment to be writing about marathons.
  — Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
• The view is discombobulating at first, the modern and ritzy clashing with the traditional and sacred, yet that image sums up Japan.
  — Brian Ashcraft, WIRED, 22 June 2009
• Friday was an admittedly discombobulating day for Donald Trump, the leader of the free world for the past 315 often hair-raising days.
  — Emily Jane Fox, The Hive, 2 Dec. 2017
• Like the fill-in-the-blank game where random words are inserted to generate wacky outcomes, Minnesota’s kicking game seems to come up with different ways to discombobulate.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 23 Nov. 2019
• The lone note of comic relief in Westworld continues to be Lee Sizemore, totally out of his depth and discombobulated when the arrows start flying.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 May 2018
• Still, the margin was narrow until Oregon, whose speedy offense had discombobulated Wisconsin, blended a series of free throws with some jumpers to build a comfortable lead.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2020
• The Gators, meanwhile, came out discombobulated and missed assignments during their first three offensive plays.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• But the new arrivals in Kampala are discombobulated and often poorly informed.
  — chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2017
• This has been, understandably, discombobulating for anyone caught up in the maelstrom.
  — Alexander Fury, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Oct. 2017
• This would immediately de-escalate the conflict, discombobulate the North Koreans, and remove the issue from our problem list.
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
• A few hours later, Harmon walked into a nearby church bloodied, bruised and discombobulated, wearing nothing but her underwear.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 26 Feb. 2018
• The café owner known only as Fleabag attends a family dinner at which a wedding is discussed, alcoholism is confronted, and pregnancies are miscarried—all in the space of a few discombobulating minutes.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 May 2020
• Carolina will create a tough enough environment at Bank of America Stadium to discombobulate an offense that is already struggling to be cohesive.
  — Joseph Person and Jourdan Rodrigue, charlotteobserver, 3 Nov. 2017
• The menu feels discombobulated without the distinct personality that distinguishes a four-star restaurant.
  — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2018
• The pre-credits sequence discombobulates viewers by opening with two entirely unfamiliar characters, who genially chat before heading out on an errand that jarringly shifts mood.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2018
• And so the Embassy was discombobulated, disrupted, uncertain.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2020
• The effect is at first exhilarating, then discombobulating, then exhausting.
  — Elisabeth Egan, New York Times, 1 June 2018
• Visually speaking, Klabin has accomplished something quite special with his directorial debut, The Wave's bright neon palette and giddily discombobulating sense of circular momentum replicating the look and feel of a particularly glorious trip.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2020
• Actually, scratch that too: everything since November 2016 has been discombobulating.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 10 Aug. 2019
• The overall experience is hypnotic, discombobulating, and undeniably fun.
  — Benjamin Kemper, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Mar. 2018
• Excess price, excess luxury, excess power, and excess, i.e. mind-boggling, organ-discombobulating acceleration.
  — Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 5 Mar. 2020

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