disbelieving

Example Sentences

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The other disbelieving intellectuals continued to write and publish but seemed to make less news by their pronouncements.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Frazzled housewives were a specialty: She was Richard Dreyfuss’ alarmed spouse in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” John Denver’s disbelieving wife in “Oh, God!” and a workaholic mother opposite Michael Keaton in “Mr. Mom.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024

They look disbelieving but I walk with them to Plankinton and show them an address on a seemingly abandoned building and explain the numbering system again.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2024

There is a famous clip to be found on Youtube of a television reporter roaming the streets of Liverpool informing disbelieving fans that Bill Shankly had announced his retirement.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024

She takes one look at my disbelieving face and adds, “Really. How many guys want to go out with a five-foot-eleven beanpole? With bad skin?”

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée