How to Use disconcert in a Sentence

disconcert

verb

• News of his criminal past has disconcerted even his admirers.
• That, in the 2019 version of the NFL, is disconcerting.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2019
• The dance begins with all the performers seated on a bench at the rear of the stage, backed by a wall of disconcerting green.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• The results must have been disconcerting for some of them.
  — Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 4 July 2018
• The only thing that was disconcerting for me was that, for me, the Goo Goo Dolls were sort of this pop-punk band that used to play in shorts and t-shirts and jeans and stuff.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2023
• Might have been most disconcerting losing two of three at home to Colorado, the sort of series the Pirates must win.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
• Though all the signals coming from the palace have been positive so far, the news is disconcerting.
  — Tara John, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024
• Parents have watched changes in their teens that have been disconcerting.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2020
• Yet Trump did not appear to be disconcerted by Kim’s move.
  — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
• There’s something disconcerting about a team that has to give up 51 points in a quarter to finally take a look in the mirror.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• Upon docking Reed is disconcerted to find Van der Berg waiting for him by the pier.
  — Christopher Byrd, Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• But the fact that trust and safety has been so busy on AI is something that makes these layoffs disconcerting to people on the outside.
  — Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2024
• The other has the aftertaste of a protein shake and a disconcerting mouthfeel.
  — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2023
• But the degree to which NBC had been dubious of her illness claims was disconcerting.
  — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• Brandon also testified about the disconcerting drawing the shooter made on the math worksheet on the day of the shooting.
  — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024
• Listeners may walk away feeling more disconcerted than before — and that just might be the point.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2018
• Some listeners have found the result disconcerting: people raised on the South Side seem to have been possessed by the spirit of Arnold Schoenberg.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• Still, the mistake was disconcerting for a group seeking to defend its Olympic title from 2012 and add to the luster of its World Cup triumph last summer.
  — Jay Schreiber, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2016
• With each turn of the watercolor-dappled page comes a new and slightly larger dinosaur to disconcert the one before.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 26 July 2018
• The idea that those brands could be abandoned was disconcerting for the snowsports retail industry.
  — Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
• Throwing firecrackers at the stage, which is kind of disconcerting.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 20 July 2023
• That seems the best way to process the eerie, disconcerting, accidental enchantment of this week’s images.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• That is a stinging criticism for what and where UConn is right now, and disconcerting if one is considering where the team is headed.
  — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• The shifts from football game high jinks or a character’s apple-bong-toking abuelita to the question of whether to shoot another teenager in the head are disconcerting, to say the least.
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
• For those with less curiosity, such dreams might be disconcerting, and so their impact is lessened.
  — Pavel Krapivin, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• When the script calls for a charismatic bald man whose magnetism also pulses with disconcerting menace, there's only one guy for the job: Billy Zane.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 7 May 2024
• Documents are stored on a per-app basis, which can be disconcerting to those used to filing everything away in folders.
  — John Herrman, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2010
• For those of us who have been eating patty melts for years, seeing all these new versions is both gratifying and disconcerting.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• But if Chinese decision-makers once believed that a first-tier economy was too big to sanction, this past year has been disconcerting.
  — Evan A. Feigenbaum, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2023
• The concern is not misplaced, and the similarities between the two cases are disconcerting.
  — Philip H. Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 1 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024