disquieting

Example Sentences

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“What a sad and disquieting chapter,” she wrote, “in the history of an honorable and often courageous profession.”

From New York Times

The delayed start to spring training, and the specter of a shortened or canceled season, was almost too much to bear, another disquieting sign of these troubled times.

From New York Times

The result is a disquieting tension between the happy-go-lucky, voracious and profitable leisure industry and looming environmental catastrophe, conveyed with somewhat ironic levity by a panoply of swimsuit-clad characters in an otherwise merry setting.

From Los Angeles Times

Brannigan’s disquieting experience illustrates the kind of challenge many athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities encounter as they travel to compete.

From New York Times

“It was disquieting in the extreme, like being placed inside a body I had no desire to occupy. I was repulsed, to find myself so permeable.”

From Washington Post