How to Use unsettling in a Sentence

unsettling

adjective
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  • 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 emptiness of Des Moines feels as vast and unsettling as its Great Plains setting.
    — Vulture, 16 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Though the waters were calm and familiar to us, the new sensation of boating at night was a bit unsettling.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Yet the very prominence of this theme makes the confluence of hip-hop’s mid-century mark and Dave Jolicoeur’s death all the more unsettling.
    — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Bing Chat has made headlines in recent months for its unsettling answers to prompts.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The water splashed and bubbled, the young equine scuttled, the crocodiles worked in unsettling concert.
    — Jackie Caradonio, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The unsettling part of this beef isn’t so much the shots the ladies are firing at each other, because as some will argue, all is fair in hip-hop battles.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The goal was to create a cold and unsettling interior to serve as backdrop for a chilling night.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 9 Jan. 2023
  • During those transits between stoplight drags, the Black Ghost prompts the most unsettling brand of nostalgia—not for 1970, but for the present.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 7 July 2023
  • The camera zooms in on de Armas’ cartoon-like wide eyes, expressive to an unsettling point and welling with tears.
    — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • To hear the names of these violent conflicts and know that so many lives were lost in their wake is unsettling at the very least and at worst horrifying.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • As with any major change in life, the prospect of retiring can be (pick a word) unsettling, daunting, stressful.
    — Glenn Ruffenach, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Learning about her case has been unsettling, but has also given them a measure of hope.
    — Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Melanie’s thought stream is funny, unsettling, layered, and rich.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • These tiny, parasitic insects are also unsettling and can be tough to get rid of.
    — USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Priscilla has said the incident left her with a black eye, a bruised arm and an unsettling feeling that Elvis had an addiction.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
  • In an era of high-tech forensics, the persistence of such brazen miscarriages of justice is more than unsettling.
    — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2023

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