How to Use dislocation in a Sentence

dislocation

noun

• The one that worked out well was a labrum and not a dislocation.
  — Matt Zenitz | [e-mail], 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
• But the sense of dislocation in these e-mails shows where the current propaganda war against the FBI first took root.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 5 Feb. 2018
• The history of the world is a story of dislocation and movement.
  — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
• 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
• With a finger dislocation, once the finger is popped back into socket, the player should be good to return to the game.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 1 Oct. 2017
• 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
• When the humeral head is back in place, these structures can heal in a loose or stretched position that may increase the risk of future episodes of subluxation or dislocation.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
• Prescott only played in five games that season before a season-ending compound fracture and dislocation of his right ankle against the Giants in Week 5.
  — Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025