How to Use disorderly in a Sentence

disorderly

adjective

• She was charged with being drunk and disorderly.
• He was found guilty of disorderly conduct.
• The cords of his triceps snap, and the tender skin under the arms dips to form a cavity, ripe with two tracks of hair, dark-black and disorderly.
  — Hurmat Kazmi, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• In Melbourne in late 1970, he was charged with being drunk and disorderly.
  — Rod McGuirk, al, 23 Apr. 2023
• Although the specter of a disorderly British break from the E.U. on Dec. 31 loomed over the meeting, the prime ministers and presidents spent little time on it.
  — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
• Crews later admitted that no one in the crowd had been disorderly.
  — Dylan Lovan, ajc, 8 Oct. 2022
• Some were toppled in disorderly waves at the hands of protesters.
  — New York Times, 28 Feb. 2022
• The way to do that is to understand that the natural processes of the human mind are disorderly.
  — Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• Dozens of children jostle in a disorderly line at the entrance to their classroom, cordoned off from the rest of the cavernous space with Army green tarps hung on chain-link fences.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2021
• The drunk man became disorderly and police escorted him and his friend from the premises.
  — cleveland, 12 May 2022
• And being drunk and disorderly or driving under the influence could result in a fine or a spot in jail.
  — Nadia Leigh-Hewitson, CNN, 10 Jan. 2023
• One refers to any noisy or disorderly group of spectators.
  — Roger J. Kreuz, The Conversation, 9 Nov. 2020
• Police arrived, spoke with the man and advised him of his disorderly actions.
  — cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
• Had his clients — five young men who a day earlier had entered the town’s public library on Queen Street, removed books from the shelves and sat down to read — been disorderly?
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
• The longer the delay, the more disorderly, disruptive and abrupt this policy response is likely to be.
  — Sharon Hendricks, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2021
• The two women were booked on charges of assault and disorderly behavior.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• That brings some order to a donation system that, at the parks, was often disorderly.
  — Jenna Ross, Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
• Please be advised the South Shore Line reserves the right to remove disorderly passengers.
  — Post-Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 27 July 2021
• But at home, the order that Putin built will become more disorderly, and the world will have to contend with a more dangerous and unpredictable Russia.
  — Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
• The most complaints, 33, were for disorderly people, with 16 calls referring to drugs.
  — Jean Marbella, Baltimore Sun, 17 Dec. 2022
• While concerns about further contagion are sure to persist, the sale to UBS avoids a disorderly collapse.
  — Marion Halftermeyer, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2023
• The man explained that his friend had come over after work to help move a television into his apartment when the disorderly man approached them in the parking lot and tried to take the television.
  — cleveland, 26 Feb. 2022
• Nashville police reported they were called to a bar on Broadway Street on March 9 for a disorderly person.
  — The Enquirer, 25 Mar. 2024
• Cops were responding to a disorderly crowd when Williams approached a white vehicle and put his hands in his pockets, police said, according to the New York Post.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 21 May 2022
• And action must be taken to avoid the risks of a disorderly transition, where the ramping-down of high-emissions activities is not matched by the ramping-up of low-emissions ones.
  — Mekala Krishnan, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2022
• Montevallo police were dispatched to the school on Oak Street at 11:40 p.m. Thursday on a report of a disorderly person.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• Dylan might be picking fights right off the bat by placing such a figure, the antithesis to the disorderly energies of rock and roll, near the foreground of his Philosophy.
  — Gene Seymour, The New Republic, 15 Feb. 2023
• In Georgia, the inspectors said disorderly conditions could cause workers to slip, trip or be struck by objects.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 15 Aug. 2022
• The manager called police, saying the man had been staying at the hotel with his wife but was asked to end his stay early due to his erratic and disorderly behavior.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 6 Jan. 2023
• First and foremost, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza underpin China’s argument that the world is becoming ever more disorderly.
  — Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 8 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024