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Then guards would deliberately disarrange the pile and announce that everyone must be dressed in five minutes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eyes still watering and head still throbbing, he drew his wand, careful not to disarrange the Cloak, and waited, breath held.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

“So your pelo loco, like clippings of grass, will not disarrange this house,” she says.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

The latter she would over and over again skilfully roll for him, place upon his head, and immediately disarrange with an embrace.

From The White Hecatomb And other Stories by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

Displace, dis-plās′, v.t. to put out of place: to disarrange: to remove from a state, office, or dignity.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

That unleashed force is plied most artfully here to create a portrait of how grief unhinges, disarranges and heightens everyday life.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2019

A similar expression now and again disarranges the handsome, sardonic features of the title character of “Butley” in Lindsay Posner’s engaging revival at the Duchess Theater.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2011

When a stiff wind disarranges his lacquered locks, he looks panic-stricken, like a man who’s just seen his own ghost.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Have chemists told you why the prism disarranges or distorts sunlight to produce the abnormal hues that men assume compose elementary rays of light?

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

Its harmony is its health; and to differ with it is heresy or treason, because social discord inflicts individual misery; and what disturbs and disarranges society, impairs the happiness and well-being of its members.

From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by George Fitzhugh

Was her hair unkempt, or her clothing disarranged?

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2023

Those of us with brains long since disarranged from a lifelong soak in college football must adapt now.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2022

For his solo work “Compression,” the choreographer Niall Jones has arranged, or disarranged, a small theater at Performance Space New York into this in-between state.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

Gaiman, craggily charismatic in black denim, thick hair artfully disarranged, English accent undimmed by years in the US, has a touch of the Crowley himself.

From The Guardian ● May 24, 2019

My spirits were so disarranged, my nerves so clamorous in their confusion, that no course of thought, speech, or action presented itself.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

The monkey, disarranging her palm-oiled coiffure, is soon to go to the States.

From Time Magazine Archive

She hops onto the bed beside me, disarranging my small pile of threadbare stuffed animals—a koala, a snake, a black cat—all beloved of my seven-year-old self.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

He only looked more eagerly at the child, and wiped his brow with his sleeve, disarranging his periwig in doing so.

From Duffels by Edward Eggleston

I counted on him as a matter of course, he is so obliging—always willing to take me wherever I want to go, and often disarranging his own engagements so that I need not be disappointed.

From The Chautauqua Girls At Home by Pansy

The scenes were somewhat spoiled by Abdul Baha not remaining in focus and disarranging the scenario.

From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson