6 sentences with 'disarray'
Example sentences and phrases with the word disarray and other words derived from it.
• « The Byzantine empire was in such disarray at the time that the Persians seized Syria, Lebanon and Egypt, cutting off much of the food supply to Constantinople. »
• « The British made steady progress moving westward from Mesopotamia, while supporting an Arab nationalist insurgency against the Ottomans from within the Ottoman borders. By 1917 Ottoman forces were in disarray and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire seemed almost certain. »
• « Back in the West, with Italian forces in ruins and the Fascist government in disarray, the Italian king dismissed Mussolini in July 1943. The new Italian government quickly made peace with the Allies, prompting a rapid invasion of northern Italy by Germany while the Allies seized the south. »
• « Finally, the British Labour Party was in disarray, divided between its still genuine socialist left and a new, more moderate reform movement that wanted to abandon socialist rhetoric in favour of straightforward liberalism. »
• « Soviet finances were in such disarray in the second half of the 1980s that Gorbachev simply ended the arms race with the United States, admitting that the USSR could not match America's gigantic arsenal. »
• « Disheartened and in disarray, some of the volunteers began to disperse; others continued the search, still convinced that the missing boy must be somewhere. »