How to Use unease in a Sentence

unease

noun
Definition of uneasenext
Synonyms for uneasenext
  • A feeling of unease came over her.
  • They noticed increasing signs of unease among the workers.
  • And just the unease of the best people in the bourgeoisie.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Your sense of unease might turn out to be more about you than about them.
    — Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Part of this unease was about crime—that was the part that Adams, a former cop, talked about the most.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The lack of transparency in the face of a covid surge has prompted unease abroad.
    — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Even as the morning sun casts a golden hue over the canopy, a sense of unease lingers.
    — Taiwo Adebayo, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The third reason was union unease with Shapiro over school choice.
    — Jeremy Lott, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Aug. 2024
  • And yet Mike Brown, the beach’s ocean rescue chief, looked out at the water with unease.
    — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 16 June 2022
  • There is a sense of unease in college sports over what may come next.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Already, some are feeling a sense of unease due to the shootings.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2023
  • But Dan soon picks up on both Jamie’s unease and Will’s needling treatment of him.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023
  • The first case of polio in the U.S. in a decade has triggered intense debate and unease.
    — Awi Federgruen, STAT, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Like any good thriller, there’s a constant stream of new wrinkles to add to the growing sense of unease.
    — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • There was a sense of unease in the newsroom after the interview.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2024
  • This week the sense of unease spread from the corridors of power to coffee shops on Main Street.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • That said, the conclusion is a stunner that wraps the yarn nicely with a deep unease.
    — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • But we’re so conditioned to expect the worst that a sense of unease remains present.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2023
  • This is more like the unease that comes with a hurricane forecast.
    — Bill Speros, Orlando Sentinel, 16 June 2024
  • This blow to Israel comes at a time of deep internal unease.
    — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • As the clock ticks, unease and fear have grown into simmering anger.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2021
  • There's a lot of unease inside the Manhattan DA's office at this time.
    — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The young man speaks of his unease at the idea of being in such a city, deserted by any form of life or habitation.
    — Noelann Bourgade, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2024
  • Caleb Martin smiled at the question, but there also was an unease.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2023
  • But Mothman is unique in that, to some of its fans, the creature invokes a sense of unease the past is unfair, the world is out of balance.
    — Colin Dickey, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Yet his steady gaze prompts a similar sense of unease in the viewer, as does the small pin on his jacket that reads Bomb Hanoi.
    — Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
  • The spot comes on the heels of Biden’s return to the campaign trail, and Democratic unease about appearing with him.
    — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2022
  • His later cityscapes in Paris have a similar sense of unease.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Another part of the appeal is the physical charge one often gets from being in a state of unease.
    — Jennifer Stavros, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
  • In the past hundred years it’s grown beyond its roots, tapping into a specifically Southern type of unease about the changing roles of American women in the first half of the 20th century.
    — Elizabeth Friend, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2024

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