- present participle of disbelieve.
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
“I didn’t know you could buy a town,” responds disbelieving colleague Bre Tiesi.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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
By 99 minutes, Darwin Nunez was roaring in celebration, kicking the advertising hoardings in front of a mass of flailing arms and legs in a disbelieving away end.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2024
The sun was shining into the kitchen, illuminating everything: Ulysses's whiskers, the typewriter keys, her father's upturned and smiling face, and her mother's astonished and disbelieving one.
From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo
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