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• My shoulder was dislocated. It was agony to have it put to rights.From the entry to rights
• Every day the stock market is pushed higher by the Fed, it becomes more dislocated from reality.2015 April 13, “New Home Sales: Lumber And Houston Are Crashing”, in Investment Research Dynamics, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2020. From the entry dislocated
• I dislocated something in my spine when I was head banging.1994 December 24, Jason Gorski, “Dances”, in k12.chat.junior (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022. From the entry chiropracteur
• He shelled it, and dislocated his finger in the process.2022, Nicholas Brookes, An Island's Eleven: The Story of Sri Lankan Cricket. From the entry shell
• Gentian de Barke fell downstairs—she denied being drunk or otherwise chemically inconvenienced—broke her leg, compound fracture apparently, and dislocated her shoulder.2019, C. A. Hope, The Barley Break, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 239. From the entry chemically inconvenienced
• The spaces of Beckett’s drama and prose—particularly the later work—seem for the most part abstract, dislocated, and disconnected from material place.2018, Trish McTighe, “‘Be Again, Be Again’: The Gate’s Beckett Country”, in David Clare, Des Lally, Patrick Lonergan, editors, The Gate…. From the entry vaguen
• The homebuilder stocks are more dislocated from fundamental reality now than they were at the peak of the bubble.2015 April 13, “New Home Sales: Lumber And Houston Are Crashing”, in Investment Research Dynamics, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2020. From the entry dislocated
• Her demands and quirks were ever more extravagant and dislocated.1989, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, Arcade Publishing, published 1998, →ISBN, page 192. From the entry off one's tree
• Type 1 facetal malalignment was when the facet of atlas was dislocated anterior to the facet of axis on lateral imaging and simulates lumbosacral listhesis.2015 July 28, Atul Goel, “Craniovertebral Junction Instability: A Review of Facts about Facets”, in Asian Spine Journal, volume 9, →DOI. From the entry listhesis
• In contrast, reductase continued to become membrane-extracted, but not cytosolically dislocated, in cells deficient for AAA-ATPases of the proteasome 19 S regulatory particle.2014 May 24, Lindsey L. Morris et al., “Sequential Actions of the AAA-ATPase Valosin-containing Protein (VCP)/p97 and the Proteasome 19 S…. From the entry cytosolically
• One of the wildly dancing horse's forehooves slammed into his shoulder, nearly dislocating it, and driving the breath out of his lungs.2010, Alice Borchardt, The Raven Warrior: Tales Of Guinevere. From the entry forehoof
• What the dislocated tense conveys is that there is something special or unusual about the speaker's attitude to the event referred to.1994, Bill Richardson, “Deixis and Translation”, in Dónall P. Ó Baoill, editor, TEANGA, volume 14, Dublin: Irish Association for Applied…. From the entry quotativity
• In the spondylolisthetic pelvis, the body of the last lumbar vertebra is dislocated forward and downward over the anterior surface of the sacrum.1910, Alfred Lewis Galabin, George Blacker, The Practice of Midwifery, page 785. From the entry spondylolisthetic
• However space age, dislocated and alienated his music became, however Ballardian, surreal and abstract his conceptual concerns, he remained fixed in a northern time and space.2013, Paul Morley, The North: (And Almost Everything In It), Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry Ballardian
• Injuries, which seemed to be of an inconsequential nature, were often sustained, such as a sprained ankle, a dislocated phalanx, a twisted foot, a corked leg and so on.2006, Joseph N. Santamaria, The Education of Dr Joe, page 60. From the entry cork
• Their appearance leads to an orgy of multitudinous fornications, a wild tumult of perversions and obscene interlacings which language is dislocated and fiercely fractured to express.1989, Contemporary literary criticism : excerpts from criticism of the works of today's novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative…. From the entry fecality
• And if anyone in the Malay community has a sprain, a fractured or dislocated limb, or is plain tired, he or she immediately arranges for an urut.1978 November 1, Judith Holmberg, New Nation, page 10. From the entry urut
• Bearing in mind that the veins have more compressible walls than the arteries, it is intelligible how they are more obliterated than the former when an organ becomes dislocated.1912, Interstate Medical Journal, page 249. From the entry obliterated

Meaning of dislocate

1. verb To put something out of its usual place.
2. verb To emotionally jar, unsettle, or disorient.
3. verb To (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint.

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How do you use dislocate in a sentence?

Dislocate is used as a verb. For example: “My shoulder was dislocated. It was agony to have it put to rights.”

What is a short sentence with dislocate?

“He shelled it, and dislocated his finger in the process.”

What does dislocate mean?

Dislocate means to put something out of its usual place.