DISHEVELED in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for DISHEVELED, such as:

1. Your disheveled appearance will hurt your chances in this interview.
2. Rostov, rubbing his eyes that seemed glued together, raised his disheveled head from the hot pillow.
3. And the something turned round, and I saw it was a peasant with a disheveled beard, little, and dreadful looking.
4. They had hardly begun to play before the doctor's disheveled head suddenly appeared from behind Mary Hendrikhovna.
5. On its long back sat Daniel, hunched forward, capless, his disheveled gray hair hanging over his flushed, perspiring face.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISHEVELED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
disheveled
 a.  marked by disorder; untidy; having hair in loose disorder
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  She sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and Katie, sleepy and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third time, muttering to herself.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
2  Rostov, rubbing his eyes that seemed glued together, raised his disheveled head from the hot pillow.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I
3  On its long back sat Daniel, hunched forward, capless, his disheveled gray hair hanging over his flushed, perspiring face.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV
4  They had hardly begun to play before the doctor's disheveled head suddenly appeared from behind Mary Hendrikhovna.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XIII
5  In front, at a weary gallop and using his leather whip, rode an officer, disheveled and drenched, whose trousers had worked up to above his knees.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV
6  He reappeared the next morning as she was breakfasting in her room, disheveled, quite drunk and in his worst sarcastic mood, and neither made excuses nor gave an account of his absence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
7  He veiled a glance of disdain at his fellows who strewed the ground, choking with dust, red from perspiration, misty-eyed, disheveled.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
8  Meg was entertaining Sallie Gardiner in the parlor, when the door flew open and a floury, crocky, flushed, and disheveled figure appeared, demanding tartly.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
9  And the something turned round, and I saw it was a peasant with a disheveled beard, little, and dreadful looking.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 3
10  As it opened there came a tumultuous rush into the hall, rapid feet clattered up the stair, and an instant later a wild-eyed and frantic young man, pale, disheveled, and palpitating, burst into the room.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
11  It appeared to her that the blast as it swept along disheveled her brow, as it bowed the branches of the trees and bore away their leaves.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 58 ESCAPE
12  Through the twilight, Marius could distinguish their livid faces, their wild heads, their dishevelled hair, their hideous bonnets, their ragged petticoats, and their bare feet.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE
13  The Thenardier, dishevelled and terrible, set her feet far apart, threw herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICT...
14  There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity falling like a veil over all.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE
15  Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman's face, had about him at that moment something of the antique Themis.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C...
Example Sentence:
1  Your disheveled appearance will hurt your chances in this interview.