How to Use disjointed in a Sentence

disjointed

adjective
  • The piece is also one that can feel disjointed.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Rounds go by month rather than subject, which makes the quiz feel very disjointed.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Tan, with black, with green, with silver made the look feel a little disjointed.
    — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The early score seemed to settle the team, which had looked disjointed for the first few minutes.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 13 June 2026
  • A lot of training camps are very disjointed, and there’s a lot of egos pushing against each other.
    — ABC News, 13 May 2026
  • The disjointed episode made Carmichael feel more like a new cast member than a celebrity host.
    — Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2022
  • In a season filled with disjointed performances, this one ranked right near the top.
    — Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2026
  • But students say the rollout of remote work has felt disjointed.
    — Sarah Baird, The New Republic, 25 Mar. 2020
  • This was the disjointed, mistimed offense that doomed the Spurs.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 13 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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 on the ground, frustration is growing over what many see as a slow and disjointed response.
    — Manuel Rueda, NPR, 27 June 2026
  • The first 45 minutes were somewhat disjointed for both teams.
    — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Even though Kansas City is ahead, the offense has looked disjointed so far tonight.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2025
  • It's been a weird, disjointed season to date for Eric Thames.
    — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2019
  • The rest of the cast does their best, but the 10 episodes feel disjointed and anti-climactic.
    — oregonlive, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The rattled and disjointed offense never got going as the unit ran out of time to erase a growing deficit.
    — Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 23 Nov. 2024
  • The Stars looked disjointed early.
    — Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas Morning News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Orlando’s attack has been a bit disjointed to start the season.
    — Jordan Culver, Pro Soccer USA, 14 Apr. 2018
  • For starters, there was the existing decor, which Hays describes as disjointed.
    — Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson, ELLE Decor, 1 Nov. 2016
  • Help lift employees from the mess of disjointed, dark data, and empower them to do more.
    — Derek Wang, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Soft and slow, disjointed and disengaged.
    — Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • In the post-mortems of last year’s end-of-an-era season, much was made of what management viewed as a disjointed training camp.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
  • For example, pairing a cool-toned gray roof with a warm-toned façade can feel disjointed rather than cohesive.
    — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2026
  • One such innovation in the latter is a disjointed, flat-string, hard-to-track supply chain.
    — Amy X. Wang Grant Cornett, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • The pessimism is in the disjointed effort, the lack of a cohesive approach.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020

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