Example Sentences

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For example, if we heat a magnet red hot it loses its magnetism, perhaps because the heat has disarranged the particles and set the molecular poles in all directions.

From The Story of Electricity by Munro, John

You are, of course, very much disturbed at the moment," Holmes went on, "and I am really very sorry if anything I have done has disarranged any honorable enterprise in which you have embarked.

From R. Holmes & Co. by Bangs, John Kendrick

The catastrophe has disarranged its course, but it still revolves in a prolonged orbit around the sun, carrying its broken débris in a long trail behind it.

From Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel by Donnelly, Ignatius

But this sudden call to California has disarranged all my plans.

From Queen Hildegarde by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe

God, bring them back just as they went away; A little wiser, maybe, but unchanged In all the vital things—let them today Take up the lives that war has disarranged.

From Cross Roads by Sangster, Margaret E. (Margaret Elizabeth)