How to Use dislocation in a Sentence

dislocation

noun

• Here are two people who don’t just feel out of place in Tokyo, but everywhere, and somehow find great comfort in seeing that dislocation reflected back to them.
  — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
• There’s no pat explanation for what’s going on, other than so much economic dislocation combined with, still, not enough places to send needy families with kids.
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 18 Apr. 2018
• Critics of the deportation policy say many of those convicted fell into crime as a result of social dislocation.
  — Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2018
• McCarthy had what the Braves said was a subluxation of his non-throwing shoulder, which can refer to a partial dislocation . .
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Wilkerson, who vied for a spot in the Brewers' rotation, suffered a partial dislocation of his left shoulder swinging a bat in minor-league camp.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2018
• Elbow dislocation, dominant arm, extraordinary pain, recovery time of one to three months.
  — Brent Rose, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2018
• This usually results in an injury to the stabilizing bumper known as the labrum and in a young patient will usually require surgery to prevent recurrent dislocations.
  — Dr. Harlan Selesnick, miamiherald, 23 Apr. 2018
• Sweat suffered a torn ACL and dislocation of the left knee during his senior season in high school, and had a slight meniscus tear in the same knee as a sophomore in college.
  — Safid Deen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• The Celtics' season looked doomed from the opening minutes when Gordon Hayward suffered a gruesome fracture dislocation of his left ankle.
  — Jill Martin, CNN, 2 Apr. 2018
• Relocating an ankle [after a dislocation] is really hard.
  — Tim Layden, SI.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• The one that worked out well was a labrum and not a dislocation.
  — Matt Zenitz | [e-mail], al, 19 Nov. 2019
• Though cultural dislocation is embedded even in the act of measuring, the process is reassuringly physical.
  — Glenn Dixon, Smithsonian, 9 Apr. 2018
• Some two weeks into the war, the scale of the dislocation is immense.
  — Michael Bociurkiw, CNN, 10 Mar. 2022
• The opening scene is a brilliant feint of dislocation that sets the tone — and the din — of what follows.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2023
• Tied up with his sense of dislocation, the song haunted the author for years.
  — Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
• All of that dislocation has become a matrix that shapes the lives of the people Fern meets.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 18 Feb. 2021
• Prescott suffered the fracture and dislocation in the third quarter of a Week 5 matchup with the Giants.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2020
• What Earthquake Bird gets right is the sense of dislocation that can arise from living as a stranger in a strange land.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2019
• As night fell, this mood, tinged with hints of dislocation and panic, took hold.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• It’s like a three-dimensional metaphor for the dislocation at the center of the book.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2022
• In this case, dislocation added perhaps an even greater force to his new work.
  — Cat Cardenas, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2024
• Both Adin and Murrani echoed the sense of dislocation that Branagh has spoken of in being forced to leave one’s home.
  — NBC News, 26 Mar. 2022
• Two weeks after the end of the Spurs’ season, White had surgery to correct a dislocation of the second toe on his left foot.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 2 Jan. 2021
• My life with the Sora has shown me the dislocation and pain that these streamlined accounts mask.
  — Piers Vitebsky, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
• Flap dislocation is when the flap used to open the top layer of the cornea reopens post-procedure.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2023
• The French had a new word for their own sense of dislocation — dépaysement — not feeling at home.
  — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
• In the fifth week of the 2020 season, Prescott suffered a compound fracture and a dislocation of his right ankle in a game against the New York Giants.
  — Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2022
• The team said Prescott had a fracture dislocation of the right ankle and was taken to a hospital, where surgery was planned later in the day.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Oct. 2020
• There is a great deal of truth in the film, and the dislocation between the silent generation and their children is real enough.
  — Armond White, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
• There is, for survivors, dislocation, hunger, and disease.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024