disarrange
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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
“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
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
He coughed slightly, and stirred the fire with caution, as though it shaped some panorama he feared to disarrange.
From Love's Usuries by Louis Creswicke
If I'd say the right thing to President Ford, well and good; if not, your brother would disarrange things for the government by giving away the secret of the gold placers.
From The City of Numbered Days by Francis Lynde
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
It is usually better to shake up and rearrange the pillows after raising the patient as the moving disarranges them somewhat.
From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
The inclination to fits of temper loosens and disarranges all the little wires of life.
From Windy McPherson's Son by Sherwood Anderson
It doesn't take long to decide whether Netflix’s “3 Body Problem” is extraordinary or a disarranged travesty.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2024
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
The 54-year-old Johnson has managed to use his disarranged, slightly comical hair as a helmet, shielding him from more serious scrutiny.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2018
Then new arrivals disarranged the line and Jordan and I were pushed suddenly inside.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
She sank sobbing on her sister’s shoulder, sadly disarranging poor Fin’s dress; but that was forgotten as, with eager haste, the little maiden tried hard to soothe and comfort her.
From Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One by George Manville Fenn
Still Völgyeshy persisted; but the recorder interfered, saying, that the mildness which the sheriff had recommended could not, by any means, be carried to the bursting open and disarranging the larder of the sheriff's wife.
From The Village Notary by J?zsef E?tv?s
"Please don't!" he begged them, in despair, "You're disarranging all my hair."
From Misrepresentative Men by Harry Graham
