How to Use disturbed in a Sentence

disturbed

adjective

• He seems very disturbed about his work lately.
• The trap is bedded in the smooth, disturbed ground in front of the hole.
  — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 17 Dec. 2019
• Beside the road, the hills gave way to terraces of disturbed ground.
  — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 5 Feb. 2022
• The angry hum of the planes overhead like a swarm of disturbed hornets, the roar of the guns, the shake of the tent, the cot, the earth, won’t leave you at peace.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
• Many politicians are quick to point to the shooters' disturbed minds.
  — oregonlive.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• The doctor’s fixed, disturbed gaze can be seen through the plastic face shield.
  — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2020
• Another tried to coax the disturbed man to the sidewalk.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2017
• The 25-centimeter-tall weed is fond of disturbed land, field edges and the shoulders of roads.
  — Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
• And sweet, disturbed Jared (Zach Woods) now cares for the elderly.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2019
• My straight friend looked more than a little disturbed.
  — Bryan Washington, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2021
• Or a deeply disturbed young woman who fixates on a pop star as a way to cope with grief?
  — Tomi Obaro, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• The first small gallery, its walls cloaked in dark aubergine, shimmers in low light with the bleak resonance of a disturbed tomb.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• There are disturbed people out there that are going to act on this.
  — Nr Staff, National Review, 9 Aug. 2019
• Market forces may have produced the end of the cheap car era, but some observers are still disturbed.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 25 Aug. 2023
• At least three and probably all five of the disturbed corpses were of Black people, Palich said.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2024
• Beatty-Arthur said she was most disturbed by the 12-year-old’s background.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• Sometimes men get yelled at and have to dodge clearly disturbed people on the streets of New York City, too.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 20 Oct. 2017
• In the box, there is an old diary of his mentally disturbed brother and a list: with their names and the dates of their deaths.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
• The long-range shooting was excellent, but the Bucks should be more disturbed by the action closer to the rim.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• One trick is to plant the bulbs deeply — to six or seven inches — and cover with a little mulch to hide the disturbed soil.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2020
• The series, which unfolds over nine episodes, attempts to go inside the mind of the deeply disturbed man who pulled the trigger.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 July 2023
• The resolution of the case deeply disturbed Ellsberg, who saw it as a metaphor for all the lies and cover-ups of the Vietnam War.
  — Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2018
• The photo was taken in a home for disturbed children in Warsaw in 1948.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
• The disturbed spirits, which have caused so much trouble for his people, will be silent.
  — National Geographic, 16 Apr. 2017
• In the early morning, late afternoon and evening, disturbed beetles will fold their legs and drop to the ground.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 July 2019
• A lot of readers have had a visceral reaction to the Lizard King and were very disturbed by him.
  — David Martindale, star-telegram, 25 July 2017
• In between the disturbed areas of cool and damp weather, the heat is forecast to build into the Midwest this week.
  — Janice Dean, Fox News, 15 June 2020
• But how do creatures adapt when their habitats are so disturbed?
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 Aug. 2019
• But there’s that old phrase: disturbing the comfortable and comforting the disturbed.
  — Joe Utichi, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2024
• Rose witnesses a new patient — frantic and terrified one minute, placid and dead-eyed the next — take her own life right in front of her, a haunting smile never leaving the disturbed young woman’s face.
  — Janey Tracey, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024