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.
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
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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.
2 His new coat did not fit very well, for the tailor had been hurried and some of the seams were awry.
3 There was the dining room, with chairs pushed awry and food still on the plates.
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.
5 Mrs. Elsing dropped her sewing box on the floor and came back into the room, her false fringe jerking awry.
6 Finally, Mammy, coming down the front stairs, her apron rumpled and spotted, her head rag awry, saw him and scowled.
7 Her bonnet was awry; she was incomparably dowdy.
8 The floor, the ceiling, and the side, are all awry.
9 His hat was gone and his clothes were awry.
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.
11 By thy first step awry, thou didst plant the germ of evil; but since that moment it has all been a dark necessity.
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.
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.
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.
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.