How to Use ordered in a Sentence

ordered

adjective
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  • Christopher lives with most of the world’s noise shut out, in a neat and ordered universe of likes and dislikes.
    — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2017
  • Or to the top of a tall Florida pine where a vast pile of twigs and sticks in ordered disorder holds three large white eggs, cold and lifeless.
    — Katherine Martinko, Treehugger, 12 June 2023
  • Yet both Sarkissian and Roberts seem to understand the emergence and survival of small states as evidence of a less bloody and more ordered world.
    — Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Anti-ordered: the mass of the planets roughly decreases with distance from the star.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The ordered parts do not go into a central receiving system and are not tracked.
    — Larry Barszewski, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The commission has faced pressure from the Trump campaign to avoid changing the rules, while Biden’s team was hoping for a more ordered debate.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Pearcey said Final Four caps were the most popular pre-ordered item ($36 to $40), but flags and pennants are also in demand.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The province has been transformed — not yet into a state but a place settling into ordered routines.
    — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2022
  • But the process—in which a mineral substrate is used to assemble proteins in an ordered way—could also be reversed.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The grammatical description of the sentence was the whole ordered sequence of layers.
    — Geoffrey K. Pullum, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Simón and Inés have given him for his birthday because its face arranges the digits in an ordered circle against their true natures.
    — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Wide expanses of nothingness were the most ordered item on the travel menu last summer, filling the empty canyons and mountains of the American West with hordes of tourists from both coasts.
    — Brandon Presser, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Shoppers in Rome lined up outside markets to pick up pre-ordered fish, which in much of southern Italy forms the backbone of the traditional holiday meal.
    — Nicole Winfield, ajc, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Poetry gives us a more ordered way—in gravity and weight—to understand and convey our emotions.
    — David C. Ward, Smithsonian, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Poetry gives us a more ordered way—in gravity and weight—to understand and convey our emotions.
    — David C. Ward, Smithsonian, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The alternative to an ordered world, and to countries shouldering the cost of its defense, is the law of the jungle, where big countries can take territory, impose their rule and spread chaos at will.
    — Richard Fontaine, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Together, Number One and Number Three created an ordered list of arrivals that was maintained throughout the wait.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Up until recently, the Fire Department was able to switch and swap shifts in a way that led to different people working together in a random but ordered way.
    — ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2020
  • The ordered closure of playgrounds that are not part of a school or child-care center; swimming pools that serve members of more than one household, although regulated lap swimming can continue; and card rooms.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The concept of entropy describes a system’s tendency to move from order toward disorder, because there are so many more ways for a disordered state to exist than an ordered state.
    — Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2023
  • Learning new ways to cope with her illness and the pressures related to having the world’s heaviest monkey wrench thrown into her ordered life will have a positive impact on her emotional health.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Our enterprise defends and advances the ordered liberty that is necessary to human flourishing and to a free, prosperous, and strong America.
    — Lindsay Craig, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
  • So, yes, writing draws on the empathetic, imaginative faculties, which feed into fantasy and, in a more ordered and disciplined way, into fiction and painting and film and so on.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The phase transition — a change in a material’s internal organization between ordered and disordered states — is a bedrock concept in physics.
    — Gabriel Popkin, Quanta Magazine, 16 Aug. 2016
  • But the big, encompassing categories are there, as well as the overriding devotion to the American way, and in particular the ordered liberty favored by our Founding Fathers.
    — The Editors, National Review, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Gravity in particular is the cosmic force that brings matter together into more compact, more ordered structures.
    — Natalie Hamilton, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2021
  • During the pandemic, La Cocina’s retail side primarily focused on pre-ordered gift boxes.
    — Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 July 2021
  • With computers back ordered and nonprofit partners trying to build internet networks, thousands of students won’t have internet by Tuesday.
    — Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com, 8 Sep. 2020
  • There have been no groundbreaking works of free-market economics and, other than George Will’s Conservative Sensibility, no major text making the case for ordered liberty.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 22 July 2023
  • Indeed, National Review is a rare creature in our media landscape, an independent-minded voice of ordered liberty that isn’t motivated by clicks or ratings.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 5 Mar. 2024

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