How to Use disjointed in a Sentence

disjointed

adjective
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  • The rest of the cast does their best, but the 10 episodes feel disjointed and anti-climactic.
    — oregonlive, 1 Dec. 2022
  • While Houston moves on to play in San Diego, the A’s go home after a strange and disjointed year.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Rounds go by month rather than subject, which makes the quiz feel very disjointed.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The last chance of the game in a bitty and disjointed second half fell to Roberto Firmino.
    — SI.com, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The disjointed episode made Carmichael feel more like a new cast member than a celebrity host.
    — Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2022
  • And that the type displayed in a disjointed manner on some stories in the e-edition.
    — Lauren Gustus, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 July 2021
  • After the game started in disjointed style, the Lions snapped the Fire defense with a single chance in the 51st minute.
    — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Aug. 2021
  • The Timbers have had some promising moments in the last two weeks, but the group has often looked disjointed and out of sync as well.
    — Jamie Goldberg, OregonLive.com, 13 Nov. 2017
  • Last year, in the wake of electoral upheaval, street protests and a disjointed, politicized response to the pandemic, the U.S. fell to a +5.
    — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Simple wooden stairs lead from one platform to the next, and lend the house a disjointed flow that somehow still works.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 19 Apr. 2018
  • It's been a weird, disjointed season to date for Eric Thames.
    — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2019
  • The pessimism is in the disjointed effort, the lack of a cohesive approach.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020
  • But, there’s a disjointed quality to everything, a sense that the film exists to play out the string.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The Fever’s offense remained disjointed and the Sun stretched its lead up to 15 multiple times.
    — Andrew Hussey, Indianapolis Star, 24 June 2018
  • Some of their hands are also placed on Trump’s shoulders or around each other in a disjointed way.
    — Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Maybe that didn't lead to any wow moments in a spring game that felt a bit disjointed and rushed due to threat of incoming weather.
    — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Still, the 7 A.M. sunlight seemed brighter than usual, and the water rippled in a disjointed way, like a film reel missing a few frames.
    — Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Yet with Key back in the lineup for the first time this year, the Tide looked like a disjointed team during different segments of the game Tuesday.
    — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Instead, focus on the under and expect both teams to look a bit disjointed.
    — Adam Burke Vsin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2021
  • And yet her arms and shoulders snapped, twisted and became disjointed a thousand times in my mind.
    — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • But the elements of these first works, made when the artist was just entering his 30s, feel disjointed and rambling.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Video shot by a bystander shows Lopez marching up and down in front of check-in counters, yelling disjointed sentences.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Or the confused, disjointed one that feuded with their coach and each other in a one-sided loss to Seattle last week?
    — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Over the last few months this position has sometimes felt disjointed from the constant stream of news coming out of Congress and the White House.
    — Annika Neklason, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2017
  • But students say the rollout of remote work has felt disjointed.
    — Sarah Baird, The New Republic, 25 Mar. 2020
  • In honesty, the '4-4-2' that ended that game seemed like a disjointed and randomly picked set of West Ham players.
    — SI.com, 20 Oct. 2019
  • For starters, there was the existing decor, which Hays describes as disjointed.
    — Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson, ELLE Decor, 1 Nov. 2016
  • For coach Gregg Popovich, the process of reassembling the puzzle has not been seamless during an at-times disjointed 4-3 start.
    — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • One reason why the conflict in Libya has dragged on for six and a half years is the disjointed, partisan nature of foreign interference.
    — Jalel Harchaoui, Foreign Affairs, 21 Sep. 2017
  • References come across a little disjointed as the characters were aged up from Hoover’s novel.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2024

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