Citations:recombobulate

English citations of recombobulate

• 1983, Piers Anthony, Night Mare, 1987, Ballantine Books, page 53,

  They never touched living creatures directly, however; contact with warm flesh discombobulated them, and it took them a long time to get recombobulated.

• 1989, Carol H. Lankton, Stephen R. Lankton, Tales of Enchantment: Goal-Oriented Metaphors for Adults and Children in Therapy, page 50,

  Then he untied himself and got recombobulated and he turned the lights on.

• 1992, Natty Bumppo Lonely Hearts

  Please allow me to recombobulate you. Your portrait “Oneside of Natty” frightens me as much as Amy’s sketch

• 2002 April 14, Jeff Westbrook, “The 30% Iron Chef”, Futurama, season 3, episode 22, Fox Broadcasting Company

  Zoidberg: Aw, I’ll never recombobulate this ship!

• 2003, Marie D. Blair, Tiara of Thorns, page 94,

  It crossed his mind in a flash that he should tell them that Davey was recombobulated after a fashion and decked out for the inevitable one-night stand; but he knew they were too close for such graphical casualness, so he let it pass.

• 2005, Stephin Merritt, The Paris Review Book Of People With Problems

  You need a little time to recombobulate is all.

• 2009, Frank S. Robinson, The Case for Rational Optimism, page 7,

  This is because parental genes get recombobulated and blended to produce a child.

• 2011, Nicole Peeler, Eye Of The Tempest: Jane True Series: Book Four, unnumbered page,

  I was watching the little birdies fly in front of my eyes, so it took me a second to re-combobulate myself.