How to Use haphazard in a Sentence

haphazard

adjective

• We were given a haphazard tour of the city.
• But the guidelines have been haphazard and have evolved.
  — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• His work, like his life, can feel haphazard and trackless.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 7 Oct. 2021
• In fact, the Britons’ whole escapade was a bit haphazard from beginning to end.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 14 May 2021
• This whole mess speaks to the idea that the GTA Trilogy remaster was a rushed, haphazard project in many ways.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2021
• And others, the Saudis, the Qataris, for example, doing it, Turks in a bit more of a haphazard way.
  — CBS News, 20 Oct. 2021
• But these are often lazy and haphazard punishments that amount to nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
  — Blaise Malley, The New Republic, 17 Nov. 2021
• The Thorns led 2-0 and began to play looser with a comfortable lead, brushing off their tight and haphazard play in the first half.
  — oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2022
• Benji Michel clawed the Lions back into the match with a haphazard sprint from midfield.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 17 July 2021
• For the Bulls, the momentum fully swung in the fourth quarter at the end of a haphazard sequence of mistakes and missteps by both teams.
  — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 5 Dec. 2021
• Almost half have been lost to accidents, haphazard repairs, or the wear that comes with age.
  — Chuck Squatriglia, Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2020
• This crude and haphazard stability for the dollar brought an end to the 1970s stagflation.
  — Nathan Lewis, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• The process was first developed by the French, in the 1970s, but has remained somewhat haphazard and unpredictable.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 12 May 2021
• In late 2020, the government launched a sudden and haphazard crackdown on Big Tech.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022
• Out on the river, where the silvery water is indiscernible from the sky, the perilous and haphazard nature of the trade becomes clear.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2022
• The system has become so haphazard that there is no longer a functioning timetable.
  — New York Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• By his own account, though, Brave’s research was haphazard at best.
  — Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2023
• But some experts said those efforts, while heartening, may be too haphazard to make a dent in the problem.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2020
• Breaking a tie in this haphazard fashion doesn’t stop at the local level.
  — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 28 Oct. 2020
• Schooling was haphazard, with morning lessons taught by their mother for a few years and then abandoned.
  — Laurie Hertzel, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• The primary goal was to spread people out to increase the distance between them, and to reduce the chance of haphazard contacts.
  — Dallas News, 21 May 2020
• No doubt Carrington would have chuckled at the haphazard journey to find it.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• If living with the new normal means living with Covid-19, the U.S. should not be taking a haphazard approach to testing.
  — Atul Grover, STAT, 25 Nov. 2021
• The haphazard nature of the storage was revealed in Box 10, recovered from the Mar-a-Lago storage room.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2022
• The sandy waterway is strewn with haphazard deposits of rocks, pebbles and flood debris.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2022
• The clock, like so many later machines, is praised for overcoming the haphazard nature of humankind.
  — Charlotte Kent, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
• While higher reps are normally the goal for the pushup, knocking them out in a recklessly haphazard manner is not.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 18 July 2023
• This haphazard approach will mean deaths among high-risk people around the world who could’ve been saved by doses that went to teenage Americans this summer.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2021
• For Marty Nachel, a decadeslong foray into beer cellaring had a bit of a haphazard start.
  — Bill Jones, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2021
• Even with those opinions on the books, the pandemic—or really, the haphazard response to it—has shifted people’s perceptions of what a city can be.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 30 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024