How to Use unsettling in a Sentence

unsettling

adjective
  • That is an unsettling thought for the rest of the world.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
  • To me, that’s the most unsettling part of Love Is Blind.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The crashes are part of an unsettling trend in the state.
    — Sam Gillette, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Hear unsettling stories from the past and learn about the ghosts that still haunt the streets.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Still, the early stages of the West Coast die-off were unsettling.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • The unsettling echo of the book’s title struck me and many others.
    — Jay Feinman, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2025
  • For Bill Self, the year 2025 started on a rather unsettling note.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 3 Jan. 2025
  • And to think that the ground is ever-changing, well, that's a bit unsettling.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Yes, some of the gross body-horror stuff is very unsettling, but that’s not enough to make this a good movie.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The most unsettling part of it all is the pitching staff, without doubt.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2021
  • 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 thought of spending months on end in the sweltering heat is very unsettling for me.
    — Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The emptiness of Des Moines feels as vast and unsettling as its Great Plains setting.
    — Vulture, 16 Dec. 2022
  • These conflicts are unsettling to many of the crusading lawyers who helped build the A.C.L.U.
    — New York Times, 6 June 2021
  • For his part, Reynolds wants the film to serve as a form of escapism for viewers during an unsettling and dark time in the world.
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 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
  • No one knew what to do about that, so class resumed despite the unsettling news.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Soon the whole world starts to feel dangerous and unsettling.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • First off, the ceaseless tsunami of tips can be unsettling and, well, wearing to wade through.
    — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
  • Pam Morris, 54, a freelance prop stylist, noticed another unsettling trend a few years ago, when a U.S. client asked her to art-direct a crew in Asia remotely for a shoot.
    — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025

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