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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

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

Some say, why not widen Washington Street taking forty or fifty feet of private land along its westerly side and do nothing to disarrange the rest of the property between Washington Street and Fulton Street?

From Down Town Brooklyn A Report to the Comptroller of the City of New York on Sites for Public Buildings and the Relocation of the Elevated Railroad Tracks now in Lower Fulton Street, Borough of Brooklyn by

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

The inclination to fits of temper loosens and disarranges all the little wires of life.

From Windy McPherson's Son by Sherwood Anderson

And the contretemps of the last minute—a sudden death that disarranges the bridal party; a wretched cold that prevents a favorite cantatrice from singing, and so forth, and so forth.

From The Simple Life by Mary Louise Hendee

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

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

His hair is all cowlicks and disarranged spikes.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

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

"What are you disarranging my desk for?" interrupted his father.

From Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

She wore nothing over her head, for fear of disarranging the light Princess-of-Wales' fringe curling on her forehead.

From Consequences by E. M. Delafield

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