How to Use orderliness in a Sentence

orderliness

noun
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  • One of the most promising ones, this week, has been the orderliness of their exits.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Tim much preferred the orderliness of planned uploads, when the work was tidy.
    — Lexi Pandell, Wired, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Those rooms have the overstuffed charm of an antiques shop but the orderliness of the Met, with a dash of celebrity-bus-tour glamour.
    — Jazmine Hughes, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • And there is a way that Evelyn’s orderliness appeals to him.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Just the route comes to mind, the repetition and orderliness of following the same path.
    — Sarah Fay, Longreads, 17 Mar. 2020
  • The story of the Summer of Love, like so many things that summer, defies orderliness.
    — Alan Solomon, sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Wandering around the Belfast set, the scope and the orderliness of the enterprise is staggering.
    — TIME.com, 30 June 2017
  • Emanuel can barely sit still; Japan prizes calm and orderliness.
    — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
  • To watch The West Wing is to spend time in a different paradigm—to be whisked back in time to a moment when news still gave the illusion of orderliness.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2019
  • In fact, while some Virgos are the picture of orderliness and service, most are naturally drawn to a holy mess.
    — Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 12 June 2021
  • There were clues to Kelly’s alignment with Trump all along, but they were overshadowed by the focus on his orderliness.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Other than its size and relative orderliness, one thing sets this place apart.
    — Jon Marcus, Washington Post, 1 May 2017
  • The visual appeal derives from a sense of orderliness just beyond reach.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • At first, there was a quaintly naïve orderliness to her preparations.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Before omicron, before the injuries that altered the balance of the rotation, there was an orderliness to the equation.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Jan. 2022
  • There was a sense of orderliness, a surface calm, to the early Nixon administration.
    — Tim Naftali, Slate Magazine, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Gestation is considered a full-time job; the days at Golden Oaks have the same intense orderliness of a factory floor.
    — Jessica Weisberg, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The Naked Man at first appears very orderly, but Wood overlaid the orderliness with random brushstrokes.
    — Danny Wilcox Frazier, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The hidden long-range order of this putative state could rival the more obvious orderliness of a crystal.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2020
  • All those vines stretching in tight formation across the floor and up the hills give Napa Valley an aura of orderliness as well as prosperity.
    — Mike Dunne, sacbee, 23 May 2018
  • Greatly moved by the orderliness and intelligence of the natural world, Emerson began to accept the place of death and decay within it.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The orderliness of Chicago’s space spoke to the discipline required to produce works of art that are direct, personal and exposing.
    — Sasha Weiss, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Wood’s orderliness and his precision enabled him to boil down this feeling, to put it wordlessly on canvas.
    — Danny Wilcox Frazier, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The foundations of orderliness for any city are planning and management.
    — Ndubisi Onwuanyi, Quartz Africa, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Because Japan, a country that prides itself on its discipline and orderliness, places that same pressure to be punctual on train staff.
    — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 20 May 2021
  • In a country known for its picturesque landscapes and orderliness, the out-of-control wildfires have stoked unease and underlined the perils of global warming.
    — Dan Bilefsky, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
  • The outward orderliness of the trial collapsed within hours, when the jury sent more notes that revealed details about the deliberations.
    — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2016
  • The former Army medical technician had served on a Navy hospital ship and still keeps that ethos of orderliness to his outbuildings today.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The pound, seen as a barometer of sorts on the orderliness of Brexit talks, hasn’t rallied with any gusto in recent weeks despite a succession of announcements that a draft deal was imminent.
    — Paul Hannon, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
  • The orderliness, which relies on a mutual assumption of good faith, benefits all sides, Shortland told me.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021

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