unsettling

Example Sentences

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The term, which describes an unsettling, empty place lacking signs of life, has now become an object of fascination among young people online.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

This is the Christian tradition: questioning inherited norms, unsettling comfortable hierarchies, insisting that the ethical imagination can go further than traditional society allows.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

It could be an empty office block, a hallway or a corridor - unsettling between-zones.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

De Toth’s 1947 “The Other Love,” screening at 9:35 p.m., is also unsettling, though its genre is the high-toned weepie.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering—all at once.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine