How to Use dislocation in a Sentence

dislocation

noun
  • The one that worked out well was a labrum and not a dislocation.
    Matt Zenitz | Mzenitz@al.com, al, 19 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • The more the correction is delayed, the greater the disruption and dislocation.
    Eben Shapiro, Time, 6 June 2021
  • Starting in the late '90s, this sense of dislocation led to a cinema awash in violence that is both bloody and up-close.
    Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2020
  • Drug use is the most standard of the methods employed to grapple with prior deaths and dislocations.
    Sean McCoy, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
  • The wave of evictions caused by the coronavirus could swamp even the massive dislocation caused by the collapse of the US housing bubble more than a decade ago.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 28 July 2020
  • And then all the rest of the songs are about yearning and dislocation in relationship, in one way or another.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 6 May 2024
  • In the hallway, black-and-white photographs evoked decades of dislocation.
    New York Times, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Huerter is out with a left shoulder dislocation and labrum tear.
    Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The core of the experience may be a sense of dislocation, of being newly and scarily mismatched to the world.
    Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • Real market dislocation may be ahead and that could result in a 10% or 15% drop in asking prices.
    Adam Finkel, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • Threats to survival also emerge when war or other dislocations stop the movement of goods.
    Ashish Kothari, Scientific American, 1 June 2021
  • This differs from a dislocation, which occurs when the shoulder comes completely out of place.
    Tim Petrie, Dpt, Verywell Health, 28 July 2024
  • The Israeli onslaught in Gaza has caused massive dislocation, destruction, and suffering, conditions likely to persist for some time.
    Khaled Elgindy, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2023

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