How to Use disorient in a Sentence

disorient

verb

• Thick fog can disorient even an experienced hiker.
• The last few months have been disorienting to say the least.
  — Stella Bugbee, The Cut, 6 Jan. 2018
• Throw things at them to disorient them and take them down.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 18 Feb. 2018
• The Nuggets had a 24-point lead in the third quarter and used their size advantage to disorient the Heat.
  — Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 2 June 2023
• Another room spins to disorient the guests while clowns jump around on the walls.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2022
• The book opens with a dead man running through the snow, bloodied and disoriented.
  — Robert Anglen, azcentral, 11 Mar. 2018
• If a robot falls over, the bump can knock the built-in cameras out of place, disorienting the player.
  — Alex Harris, miamiherald, 27 Apr. 2017
• The rotors kicked up a thick cloud that blotted out the ground and sky, disorienting the pilot.
  — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2025
• Secured in the vault, Bemis was disoriented after the bombs did their work, the blasts blew the vault door open.
  — Mike Oliver | [e-mail], al, 17 Aug. 2019
• Speak to your child in a soothing tone but avoid trying to wake them up as this can disorient them.
  — Arielle Tschinkel, Parents, 12 Feb. 2025
• Except, as UConn fans would agree, this is the good kind of disorienting.
  — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2024
• Groggy and disoriented, Mave staggered to her feet and bound up the stump of her left arm with some cloth.
  — Nick Turse, Teen Vogue, 14 Nov. 2018
• By then, they were disoriented and had to use the hose from the Hookahmax to guide them out of the underwater hole.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 28 June 2023
• Blinded and disoriented, Alt had to feel his way along a fence up the sandy hill to the parking lot where his friends were sleeping in the car.
  — CBS News, 9 June 2018
• Blinded and disoriented, Alt had to feel his way along a fence up the sandy hill to the parking lot where his friends were sleeping in the car.
  — Richard Schlesinger, CBS News, 6 July 2024
• Those bright city lights attract birds and then disorient them.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 14 Apr. 2021
• Not making an effort in the morning will slow down your day and disorient you.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2020
• All around curved a tall LED screen, blank until a white, disorienting stripe flashed to one side or the other.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2023
• The novel begins with a scene so vivid as to be disorienting.
  — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2017
• The old woman shifted at her end of the sofa, opened her eyes, and glanced around, disoriented.
  — Samanta Schweblin, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2025
• Spending time in such a place is disorienting, like standing on a radar map with blips of light on all sides.
  — By Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
• Behind the scenes, the former President was livid and disoriented at the abrupt turn of events.
  — Brian Bennett, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024
• At the same time, something about a call just for white people could feel disorienting.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 1 Aug. 2024
• Many seemed stunned, and somewhat disoriented, to have reached the United States.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
• All the lights at night disorient them and can interfere with their ability to find a mate.
  — Sarah Bowman, USA TODAY, 2 July 2022
• The fact that Epstein blamed her disoriented her, Williams said.
  — Sarah Fitzpatrick, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2024
• At first, all these Scorpio vibes may feel a bit disorienting, but don’t fret.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 30 Sep. 2018
• The driver appeared to be hurt and disoriented, and one of the bystanders called 911 while the other approached the driver to help, deputies said.
  — Sara Schilling, Sacramento Bee, 9 Jan. 2025
• The very fact that Hannah was taken out of school and to the hospital for a mild fever is disorienting to June, who was busy at work and missed the school’s calls.
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Apr. 2018
• Such a rapid offense is meant to disorient and overwhelm a target.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 14 Mar 2025