disturbed

Example Sentences

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I have been disturbed to see how seriously many of my patients have taken the panic around microplastics and fertility to heart, as if using wooden cutting boards will negate age-related infertility, for example.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026

“To have this intensely coherent collection disturbed by this brazen theft is a tragedy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

He retired in 2023 and was disturbed to learn from former colleagues that the office was shutting down the open union probes.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2026

Then, sufficiently disturbed, he hauls in the AI cheerleaders, a suspiciously positive gang who can envision only medical miracles and grindless lives in which we’re all full-time artists.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

I am always anxious about Jonathan, for I fear that some nervous fit may upset him again; so I turned to him quickly, and asked him what it was that disturbed him.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker