Word:

disorientating

Number of occurrences: 84 Rank: 387,497 Frequency class: 21

Baseform: disorientate

Examples

  • It's an around the world tour from New York to Santa Cruz to Tokyo, which can occasionally be disorientating, especially in Japan where the sheer proliferation of urban sound is like an assault upon the senses. (www.thetyee.ca, collected on 15/11/2016)
  • When the trauma and stress and disorientating forces of her job take hold, Moore takes the audience through her entire downfall, step by step and moment by moment. (www.pagosasun.com, collected on 06/11/2016)
  • Early evening when sight of one’s surroundings has just been lost could be a disturbing and disorientating time, especially near a hostile coast as both these incidents were. (www.pridesource.com, collected on 14/11/2016)
  • The challenge is to let oneself be drawn in. One has to struggle against the urge to make sense of disorientating imagery, and instead allow subconscious thoughts to float to the top. (www.brooklynrail.org, collected on 17/11/2016)
  • When you have an experience like that, where you question your whole world and everything you think you know, it's confusing and disorientating, but it's also amazing. (www.sonomacountygazette.com, collected on 06/11/2016)
  • During one scenario, the girls were asked to close their eyes as Lopez led them into the room, disorientating them with loud noises so that they wouldn’t know where the attack was coming from. (www.simcoereformer.ca, collected on 23/11/2016)
  • Episode one left many confused and while it's not too difficult to follow, it is certainly a disorientating viewing experience. (www.express.co.uk, collected on 10/11/2016)
  • The album closes with the title track, which describes a disorientating party where the singer has passed their limit and is thinking it’s time to end the night. (www.spokesman.com, collected on 23/11/2016)
  • I must admit, arriving at such a time of day was a little disorientating and I would indeed recommend arriving earlier in the day. (www.kansas.com, collected on 11/11/2016)
  • I may think it's coming from the left of me and it will turn out to be the right, which is disorientating. (www.thenorthernecho.co.uk, collected on 15/11/2016)
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