Come apart

Usage examples of disjoint.

The Khesatan, oblivious of the corpse at his feet, was holding Beka in a tight embrace and murmuring disjointed phrases under his breath.

True to his service, the agent uttered disjointed sentences - his recollections of the statements which Birdy Zelker had made when cornered.

Here, he told us the story of his adventures, in a disjoint fashion punctuated by small yelps as I cleaned the injury, clipped bits of clotted hair away, and put five or six stitches into his scalp.

Remo said when the Cajun had retrieved enough of his disjointed wits to understand the spoken word.

The current city manager was an excessively tall, slender, disjointed sort of man.

At first it appeared only like a succession of disjointed, broken stones, lying in straggly fashion along the footwall of the drift where it widened into the stope, or upward slant on the vein.

Each neuron has a maximum response to values in the range of values it represents, and the ranges represented by different neurons are all disjoint from each other.

When thrown on their own resources, they are so demoralised by ages of dependence on the brain, that they die after a few efforts at self-assertion, from sheer unfamiliarity with the position, and inability to recognise themselves when disjointed rudely from their habitual associations.

He was looking forward to it as he drifted into sleep, his thoughts fragmenting and scattering into disjointed nonsense.

Unable to appose, the disjointed segments fell free, and she flung them off into the darkness.

Both men whirled, and there it was: a disjointed, chitinous, crablike hulk.

The asterisked line breaks set apart points which, because of removed context, now appear as disjointed bits (or passages) of teaching.

Knees drawn up she pulled the towel round her bared shoulders and a shiver sent breath through her, staring at that page till she seized the pencil to draw it heavily through his still, sinewed hands, hard irregular features, the cool disinterested calm of his eyes and a bare moment's pause bearing down with the pencil on his hands, disjointed, rust spotted, his crumbled features dulled and worn as the bill collector he might have been mistaken for, the desolate loss in his eyes belying, belying.

But during the course of dinner she gathered from some disjointed remarks of his that he and Bibbs had lunched together at the small restaurant where it had been Sheridan's custom to lunch with Jim, and she took this to be an encouraging sign.

Why they'd take the clothes and leave the shoes was a question Ty probably couldn't have answered even had he not been wearing the cap (sbecial toyz for sbecial boyz), but a disjointed phrase popped into his head: custom of the country.