How to Use unsettling in a Sentence

unsettling

adjective
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  • That is an unsettling thought for the rest of the world.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
  • And so that was for me, in the years following, a part of what was unsettling to me.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The last month has been wild, and unsettling, and vexing.
    — Michael Silver, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The mass grave is an unsettling sight to someone who was brought up in the worship of books.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2023
  • So it’s been unsettling to find out the Avengers are Earth-bound, after all.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The change has been unsettling because the city’s broad project is widely shared.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The anecdotes that Khan presents are a mix of compelling and unsettling.
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • The emptiness of Des Moines feels as vast and unsettling as its Great Plains setting.
    — Vulture, 16 Dec. 2022
  • But, that doesn’t change that the result is a little unsettling.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 June 2022
  • Just as unsettling, guns are now the number one cause of death among children.
    — CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The footage was unsettling, which only helped to extend its reach.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • There were no other guests and, more unsettling, no overnight staff.
    — Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2024
  • And that’s unsettling but brilliant news for the 49ers — Wilson won the Super Bowl in his second year as a starter.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The stranger asked to see Patrick, but after he was informed that the parson was ill in bed, the encounter took an unsettling turn.
    — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
  • For much of the populace, talk of death can be morbid, grim or unsettling.
    — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 13 Oct. 2022
  • All of this sounds unsettling—but is there any reason to panic?
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 20 May 2022
  • This question gets to the very heart of the challenge for anyone trying to run a business in these unsettling times.
    — Fortune, 21 July 2022
  • But the health effects of such a program might also be unsettling.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2024
  • But on screen as Kang, there's an unsettling weight to his performance.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • But the subject defies her initial plan and becomes far more unsettling in the process.
    — Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
  • One tenant said the facial scan required for one of the background checks was unsettling.
    — AZCentral.com, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Rashida Jones had an unsettling encounter with a Furby back in the 1990s.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
  • Here are some cool ideas that range from one of the best, if most unsettling, movies of 2024 to great shows and concerts and more fabulous French fries (mmm … French fries).
    — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But just how bad must their secrets be to commit mass suicide, on camera, as a group of them do in the film’s most unsettling scene?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
  • And two unsettling comments are too-briefly dropped in at the end, when some of the women who were eliminated talk about the feedback the judges gave them.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
  • The most unsettling adjustment came when Em didn’t feel well.
    — Alex Belth, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2022
  • With all the unsettling talk these days about AI, this particular species of villainy lends the film a new-style dose of pulp paranoia.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2023
  • The discord between sound and vision in The Zone of Interest is deeply unsettling.
    — Hazlitt, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Soon after settling in, strange and unsettling occurrences begin to plague the family, particularly Matt.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
  • While each case is serious in its own right, these developments, viewed collectively, paint a hugely unsettling picture of governance in Orange County — one that raises significant concerns about the guardrails meant to protect the public.
    — Tri Ta, Orange County Register, 24 Oct. 2024

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