ORDERLY in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for ORDERLY, such as:
1. They were ordered to strike back.
2. In April, Rostov was on orderly duty.
3. He wandered into a bar and ordered a drink.
4. Prices vary according to the quantity ordered.
5. Curious pedestrians were ordered to move along.
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 Meanings and Examples of ORDERLY
orderly
 a.  devoid of violence or disruption
 n.  a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "I must have that purse, I tell you," shouted Denisov, shaking his orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
2  "The master is not in, he's gone to headquarters," said Telyanin's orderly.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
3  "You've only just missed him," said the orderly.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
4  His hand trembled as he gave his horse into an orderly's charge, and he felt the blood rush to his heart with a thud.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
5  The farther forward and nearer the enemy he went, the more orderly and cheerful were the troops.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV
6  At last Bagration's orderly came with the news that the prince could not attend.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII
7  In the Emperors' suite were the picked young orderly officers of the Guard and line regiments, Russian and Austrian.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV
8  In April, Rostov was on orderly duty.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
9  Just then a commissariat soldier, a hospital orderly, came in from the next room, marching stiffly, and drew up in front of Rostov.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
10  Rostov dismounted, gave his horse to the orderly, and followed Alpatych to the house, questioning him as to the state of affairs.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XIII
11  The lieutenant colonel of hussars smiled beneath his mustache at the orderly's tone, dismounted, gave his horse to a dispatch runner, and approached Bolkonski with a slight bow.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XV
12  But contrary to what had always happened in their former battles, instead of the news they expected of the enemy's flight, these orderly masses returned thence as disorganized and terrified mobs.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXIV
13  Only someone's orderly passed through the gateway, splashing through the mud, and talked to the innkeeper.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER IX
14  The major-domo stood at the porch talking to an elderly orderly and to a pale young officer with a bandaged arm.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XV
15  Before the officer had finished speaking the orderly made the same request on behalf of his master.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Conventional economic and accounting theory tends to assume that the process involved is highly rational and orderly.
2  The organizers guided them in orderly fashion out of the building.
3  The girl students' rooms are all in orderly condition.
4  The senior leaders lined up behind him in orderly rows.
5  Managers like an orderly arrangement of data, especially one in which the data are arranged in columns and rows in an essentially rectangular form.
6  Prices vary according to the quantity ordered.
7  Curious pedestrians were ordered to move along.
8  It's late in the day to think of a change of plan when we've already ordered the materials.
9  They were ordered to strike back.
10  He wandered into a bar and ordered a drink.
11  Felicity Maxwell stood by the bar and ordered a glass of wine.
12  The doctor ordered him to remain in bed for a few days.
13  The officer ordered the troop to retire from the action.
14  A postmortem was ordered to try to ascertain the cause of death.
15  The policeman ordered the criminal to drop his weapon.