Example Sentences

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The frame of the screen may move, creating a slight sense of disorientation as the stairs themselves shift.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

The jury has been told how Ford went to Barnsley Hospital on 2 June with a range of symptoms including severe headaches, nausea, mobility issues and disorientation.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

Liz Plank, on her Substack, describes the nausea and disorientation felt by women realizing this past week that we had all been gaslit yet again.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026

The first two Tame Impala albums, 2010’s “Innerspeaker” and 2012’s “Lonerism,” were filled with carefully assembled psychedelic rock featuring spacey guitar riffs and moments of pleasing disorientation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

I laughed at my disorientation, smiling at myself in the pool of water.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys