How to Use dishevel in a Sentence

dishevel

verb

• Hawkins was on one end of the video call, shirtless and with his hair disheveled.
  — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• The unit was disheveled with furniture moved about and items on the floor.
  — cleveland, 18 Apr. 2020
• The unit was disheveled, with feces, either from the dog or a human, seen throughout the floor.
  — cleveland, 28 Sep. 2019
• The building’s most recent past life left the structure disheveled with a burned out front lawn.
  — Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Aug. 2017
• Police observed the girl to have disheveled hair, a red bruise on her side and a patterned injury on her leg.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2019
• What’s up with Sean Penn stoned & disheveled with very weird hair & smoking on Colbert?!
  — Flora Carr, Time, 27 Mar. 2018
• The drunken woman was not wearing shoes, had an empty purse and her hair was disheveled.
  — Andy Attina / Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• When her mother returned, the then 9-year-old child was upset and her Easter dress disheveled.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2018
• While the mother was inside, her daughter came home crying and disheveled with leaves and dirt on her, according to the report.
  — Krista Torralva, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• The third trailer had a broken lock and its interior was disheveled.
  — cleveland, 25 Oct. 2019
• And Aidan, his hair disheveled, the only boy wearing sweatpants at the presentation, just shrugged.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2018
• There were quite a few slightly disheveled looking folks walking around holding these crazy red or blue drinks that came in what looked like a small fishbowl.
  — Tom Reardon, azcentral, 4 Aug. 2019
• Epstein, looking disheveled in a navy blue jumpsuit, pleaded not guilty.
  — Ali Watkins, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2019
• The photo, taken Monday at the sheriff's office in Waukegan, shows the 75-year-old Hastert frowning, with deep circles under his eyes and his gray hair disheveled.
  — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2017
• What initially caught my eye and incensed me wasn't the line of people, young and old, well groomed and disheveled, who waited to exchange used syringes for sterile ones.
  — Woman's Day, 1 July 2016
• Its stem is often broken, its pedals disheveled and falling off.
  — Christina Capatides, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2019
• Longtime Cara Delevingne fans were alarmed when late last year, photos and videos of the model looking disheveled at an airport circled online.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Mar. 2023
• The friend recalled an incident that happened in late February, when Christman arrived late to work, appeared to be disheveled and had bruises on her neck and arms.
  — Glenn E. Rice, kansascity, 23 Apr. 2018
• Wenger, the King of Arsenal, hangs perilously under a boiling cauldron lit aflame by the fans of the club, but peering down at his impeding doom hasn’t once dishevelled him.
  — SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Festival co-founder Lee Reynolds is still awake and riding high after his midnight set, shouting and chanting at the picturesque cerulean sky with his hair disheveled, voice rasped, and squinting eyes and arms raised high.
  — Jordan Diaz, Billboard, 5 May 2017
• That’s the burden carried by Bachmann, played by Hoffman as a dissolute, disheveled, crushed soul who still gives his all to his exacting, dangerous work.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 14 Nov. 2019
• Kapoor, who was arrested earlier Thursday, entered court in basketball shorts, tennis shoes and a T-shirt, his long, gray hair disheveled.
  — Anita Snow, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2017
• Delevingne said a major turning point came after seeing paparazzi images of her disheveled self at the Van Nuys Airport in September.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• Photos released by Metro Nashville Police Department showed him disheveled in a ripped burgundy top and dark jeans, handcuffed in the back seat of a law enforcement vehicle.
  — Jenny Jarvie, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• After again making her way into the airport, Terrio — her hair disheveled and visibly exhausted — sat with her children near the baggage check area waiting for her flight.
  — Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, latimes.com, 6 June 2019
• On the other side of the table sat Cohen’s main defense attorney, Martin Klotz, looking slightly dishevelled.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
• Basham, who was reported in court records to appear disheveled, filled out an ATF form while his sales receipt was being written, according to charging documents.
  — Erika Butler, The Aegis, 12 June 2018
• Twelve hours later, Perriello entered a rest stop in rural Ashland with his hair disheveled, tie removed, and voice groggy and bordering on slurring.
  — Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post, 11 June 2017
• Police checked on a man who was reportedly knocking on doors in a residential area and appeared to be disheveled and disoriented.
  — oregonlive.com, 1 July 2019
• In fact, most people enjoy the meal in their pajamas, looking expectedly disheveled.
  — Nadeem Muaddi, CNN, 26 May 2018

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