Example Sentences

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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 Eggleston, Edward

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 E?tv?s, J?zsef

But her good temper did not last all the afternoon, and ended in disarranging Olga's plans.

From A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story by Hume, Fergus