How to Use uneasy in a Sentence

uneasy

adjective

• Rain made the crew uneasy.
• We spent an uneasy night waiting for news.
• He has an uneasy relationship with his father.
• The question is uneasy, but so is the fact of the book.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2024
• And that makes this provocative but uneasy film leave a sour taste in the mouth.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2023
• And also the song itself is speaking about the city, and the feeling of the city being uneasy.
  — Bill Beuttler, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
• Well, here was their chance to prove it after an uneasy first half against the Texans.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2024
• The turn in weather made the Catholics who had gathered at Adelson’s house uneasy.
  — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
• The sound of war interrupts the uneasy moments of silence; the crackle of gunfire, the crump of tank fire.
  — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2023
• The belt-tightening left the NPR newsroom uneasy about what could come next.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Farmer and Richardson had long felt uneasy about what AseraCare asked them to do.
  — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 28 Nov. 2022
• Park and her mother were about to leave the house, when Park suddenly felt uneasy.
  — Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 14 Sep. 2023
• But the Eros is sick, man is uneasy, something is bothering him.
  — Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2023
• Enough time has passed for many of those who were uneasy about what happened that summer to reflect on those events, and their role in them.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2022
• The sense of isolation its title evokes refers to the eerie tales in its pages as well as to Black people’s uneasy history with the genre.
  — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024
• This year, the Year of the Dragon, is supposed to be the most uneasy, uncertain, or dramatic year, which might be true.
  — Jonathan Landreth, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• But that prospect makes some inside the ruling system uneasy.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• Whether that uneasy truce holds is unknown, but this much is certain, Putin’s iron grip on Russia is now in doubt.
  — ABC News, 25 June 2023
• First baseman Triston Casas, who was not in the lineup, relayed that the injury left him very uneasy.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• Federal Judge Maryellen Noreika seemed uneasy about the terms the parties had agreed to.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 26 July 2023
• The ramp's natural flex could also make some users uneasy.
  — Lindsay Modglin, Verywell Health, 25 Apr. 2023
• Some Qataris are uneasy with the deluge to come, including the potential for drunken crowds and the pace and direction of change the event has brought to the country.
  — Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2022
• For people who met the suspect in passing, knowing now that he has been accused in the Idaho killings has left them uneasy.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 1 Jan. 2023
• Some figures do so leaning on their back heel, uneasy at the transgression.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
• Even in the locker room, where Reich was respected and well liked, players seemed uneasy with so many changes.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2022
• But, as endearing as Fraser was, the lovefest left me uneasy.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
• While sellers of the pigment did little to hide the fact that it was made from exhumed bodies, some artists were uneasy with their paint's origins.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Waiting and calling and waiting more, Llewellyn grew uneasy.
  — Mark Thiessen, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
• The development comes at an uneasy time for the commission.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• But the Nord Stream attack has left many governments uneasy about the lengths to which Russia or other actors might go.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024