derange

Example Sentences

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Tolentino explores these overheated environments and their incentives, and how they derange our sense of ourselves and our values.

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2019

Though ambiguity and the unknowable drive and derange this novel’s characters, I don’t believe Apostol is arguing against the existence of demonstrable fact.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2018

And yet neighbors living in democracies can derange themselves, too.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 31, 2016

Twin Peaks didn’t break the rules of dramatic television so much as subtly derange them.

From Slate • Nov. 12, 2015

The quality of her clothes threatened to derange Frieda and me.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison