Disjointed Sentence Examples

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  • Fear flew through her as she recalled the disjointed dreams.

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  • She closed her eyes, watching the disjointed, fuzzy home videos playing in her mind.

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  • Poor Martha lacked even a minimal paper trail on her short, disjointed life.

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  • One of the most interesting documents in the correspondence is a despatch of Caesar to his agent Oppius, written in great haste and in disjointed sentences.

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  • The bits and pieces of who he was were there, disjointed and scattered.

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  • They are entirely unsystematic so far as matter is concerned, chaotic and disjointed in style.

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  • His hatred of system, incapacity for abstract thinking, and intense personality rendered it impossible for him to do more than utter the disjointed, oracular, obscure dicta which gained for him among his friends the name of "Magus of the North."

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  • Emotions, random sensations, memories, disjointed images.

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  • More serious were the plans and the attempts of Charles of Anjou and Louis IX., in which the Crusades may be said to have finally ended, save for sundry disjointed epilogues in the 14th and 15th centuries.

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  • At Arsuf the Christians fought coherently; here the battle began with a disjointed combat between the Templars and Saladin's right wing.

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  • On the other side, confusion in the command and other causes made the general advance slow and disjointed; the initiative was soon lost, and the battle became one of the parallel fronts along the 1 This is all the more remarkable as the Bulgarian I.

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  • The story of the events at the court of Abimelech (xxvi.) finds a parallel in the now disjointed xx., xxi.

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  • Gabe made his way through the narrow alleys and disjointed walkways that wound like a maze through the market.

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  • Had the thought been able to gather support among her disjointed faculties, she would have walked away from him.

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  • Though Dean wished to remain at hand's-length from her troubled life he quickly sensed from her disjointed description Cynthia had been correct when she assessed that the woman carried serious emotional pain.

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  • The peculiarly disjointed and fragmentary condition of the sentiments expressed by Pascal aggravates the appearance of universal doubt which is present in the Pensees, just as the completely unfinished condition of the work, from the literary point of view, constantly causes slighter or graver doubts as to the actual meaning which the author wished to express.

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  • Again, the probability that the passage in Jeremiah incorporates disjointed fragments of an older oracle is greatly increased by the fact that the prophecy against Moab in the preceding chapter uses, in the same way, Isa.

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  • An image of Darkyn appeared forefront before the images swirled and began to play a disjointed movie.

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  • She fell quiet for a moment, and Darian watched the disjointed images in her mind as she recalled the memories.

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  • He recalled too little of Jame's wisdom, but the disjointed words of his mentor soothed him nonetheless.

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  • He was a naturalist, but absolutely devoid of the pedantry of science; a keen observer, but no retailer of disjointed facts.

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  • He had a dogma of his own - one founded, according to his German expositors, on the views of the Neoplatonists, of which a few disjointed specimens must here suffice.

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  • Owing to events on their right, they had given up their somewhat disjointed efforts to defeat the Bulgarian centre, and retired in a direction or directions which the victors were unable to determine.

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  • Between Miinden and Minden its course lies through a picturesque valley flanked by irregular and disjointed ranges of hills (Reinhardswald, Sollinger Wald, Weser Hills, &c.); but after it emerges from these mountains by the narrow pass called the "Porta Westfalica," near Minden, its banks become flat and uninteresting.

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  • The only real negative is some truly atrocious editing, which occasionally makes the script seem disjointed.

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  • It had no symbolic significance, just bothersome disjointed sequences that lacked a relevant theme.

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  • They were somewhat disjointed, with no distinct physical boundary for the service.

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  • All interesting topics and worthy of exploration but I felt at times the book came across as slightly disjointed.

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  • These are just preliminary thoughts rather disjointed to provoke the process of reflection.

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  • While there was nothing to choose between the two teams; United were far too disjointed to produce much of note.

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  • Although visually the trio of tools seems a little disjointed, between them they do a good job.

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  • I'm definitely not pleased with the first half in terms of us being very very disjointed.

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  • The plot is often weak and sometimes feels disjointed.

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  • Yet the magpie approach doesn't sound stupidly disjointed as it can in the wrong hands.

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  • The implementation of the policy continues to appear disjointed.

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  • The appearance of popular songs, complete with lyrics, may have created a disjointed effect Fiedel simply didn't want.

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  • The environmental planning and decision-making system in Finland is somewhat incoherent and disjointed.

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  • The music is a bit disjointed and becomes ever more manic toward the end.

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  • These yearly keeps may seem risible to some, but they are a means of bringing people together in an increasingly disjointed society.

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  • These bodily changes can also affect the voice, making it sound tremulous, or disjointed by over-rapid breathing.

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  • There is some lovely woodwind toward the end of this track which, although rather disjointed, works well.

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  • In its systematized form, as a branch of botanical study, it is of recent date, and, as now understood, the subject first received special attention about 1850, when the nature of parasitism began to be intelligible; but many disjointed references to diseased conditions of plants had appeared long before this.

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  • He expressed in an eager, disjointed, but condensed and laboured fashion, certain deep-lying convictions - that philosophy must come back from unsubstantial metaphysics to the solid facts of human nature and natural science, that the human body was no less important than the human spirit ("Der Mensch ist was er isst") and that Christianity was utterly out of harmony with the age.

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  • It 's a fierce, disjointed, rhapsodic piece.

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  • He shows this in a series of questions, while the verse becomes disjointed - a series of clauses separated by dashes.

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  • The original living room was large, but narrow, and decorated with a disjointed set of furniture.

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  • For example, a purple hallway that connects to a yellow kitchen could look a little harsh and disjointed.

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  • Other indicators of possible emotional problems may be drawings of a particular object or person much bigger than a drawing the child makes of himself or herself, or a drawing of a human figure in disjointed parts.

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  • Movements are not smooth and may appear disjointed or jerky.

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  • If you find that it's sparse or disjointed, look elsewhere.

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  • The result is a somewhat disjointed game that does not make you feel like a member of a team like it should.

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  • I wanted to write with one producer because if you work with a lot of different writers the album can become slightly disjointed.

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  • The rather disjointed effect fits the disturbing nature of the theme.

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  • This is a collection of essays from throughout the author's entire career so it could so easily feel very disjointed.

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  • Using concepts and images of flowing fractals helps me to follow a patient's seemingly disjointed reasoning.

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  • The Qur'an is, in these respects, a quite disjointed book.

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  • Firstly, detail becomes disjointed, especially with the use of long, complex technical phrases.

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  • This game showed that we used that many players tonight without looking disjointed.

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  • It is the key to an understanding of the times to remember that the War of Independence had disjointed society; and democracy - which Jefferson had proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, and enthroned in Virginia - after strengthening its rights by the sword, had run to excesses, particularly in the Shays' rebellion, that produced a conservative reaction.

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