disbelieving

Example Sentences

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With this bizarre turn, Mr. Noonan renders the character such a pathetic figure that the remainder of the show leaves us disengaged—and disbelieving.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

From across the coffee table, their eyes widened, and their mouths skewed into disbelieving shapes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2025

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

My stunned and disbelieving eves noted that on that occasion she was wearing dark stockings and not leotards.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole