order of things

Example Sentences

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This restless drive to find the underlying order of things, whether of a mountain range or a Gothic vault, is the key to the whole exhibition, and to Viollet-le-Duc.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

The offer made her cry, both because it was so kind and because she felt it was the wrong order of things.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 19, 2025

It must fracture the settled order of things to make space for the not-yet-imagined.

From Salon • Jun. 29, 2025

But the order of things is different now in this age of accelerated climate change.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2025

It was his aurora: it was telling him that he was still part of the great order of things, and that that could never change.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman