Example Sentences

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Then we have a second list that is every single member of Congress, alphabetized by last name.

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2023

Her spices were alphabetized, her cutlery all had to face the same direction in the drawer and her chocolate chip cookies were somehow all identical.

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2022

“I suffer from CDO. That’s OCD, but the letters are alphabetized like they need to be.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2022

Shelves lining the walls reached from floor to ceiling, each packed full of titles, perfectly alphabetized and separated by genre.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Then there is behavioral residue, which is defined as the inadvertent clues we leave behind: dirty laundry on the floor, for instance, or an alphabetized CD collection.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell