AWRY in a Sentence

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18 example sentences for AWRY, such as:

1. His hat was gone and his clothes were awry.
2. My carefully laid plans had already gone awry.
3. The floor, the ceiling, and the side, are all awry.
4. The strike has sent the plans for investment seriously awry.
5. There was the dining room, with chairs pushed awry and food still on the plates.

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 Meanings and Examples of AWRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
awry
 ad.  in a position that is turned toward one side; away from correct course
Classic Sentence:
1  Then he hastily set about smoothing his hair and settling his ruffled shirt and his cravat which had slipped awry behind one ear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  His new coat did not fit very well, for the tailor had been hurried and some of the seams were awry.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  There was the dining room, with chairs pushed awry and food still on the plates.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
4  He came in, his ears red from the cold, his pinkish hair awry, and stood looking down at her, a faintly humorous smile on his lips.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  Mrs. Elsing dropped her sewing box on the floor and came back into the room, her false fringe jerking awry.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
6  Finally, Mammy, coming down the front stairs, her apron rumpled and spotted, her head rag awry, saw him and scowled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
7  Her bonnet was awry; she was incomparably dowdy.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  The floor, the ceiling, and the side, are all awry.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
9  His hat was gone and his clothes were awry.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
10  The whole tribe of decorous personages, who had never heretofore been seen with a single hair of their heads awry, would start into public view with the disorder of a nightmare in their aspects.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
11  By thy first step awry, thou didst plant the germ of evil; but since that moment it has all been a dark necessity.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
12  That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
13  Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits anything else, this old world is all warped, I take my stand on the opposition, everything goes awry; the universe is a tease.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
14  He now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while a French soldier tugged at the other.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  My carefully laid plans had already gone awry.
2  There is no sober-minded, fast pace also goes awry; no caution pace, then flat road will fall.
3  The strike has sent the plans for investment seriously awry.
4  He held his head awry, giving the impression that he had caught cold in his neck during the night.