How to Use perturb in a Sentence
perturb
verb- It perturbed him that his son was thinking about leaving school.
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The Sweeneys and the Fords are perturbed by the police’s handling of the case.
—Erin Logan, baltimoresun.com, 22 July 2019
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Still, some are perturbed at the prospect of power cuts.
—Victoria Burnett, New York Times, 12 July 2016
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Your own model of it doesn't perturb anything at the end of the day.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2012
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I'm deeply perturbed by how this process has played out.
—NOLA.com, 2 June 2017
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McGahn was perturbed by the call and did not intend to act on the request.
—Linda Greenhouse, The New York Review of Books, 30 May 2019
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For its part, Peloton doesn’t appear to be perturbed by the ban.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 9 Mar. 2023
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Initially, he was perturbed by the fact that the front door was not aligned with the center of the entrance hall.
—Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 21 Aug. 2015
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Initially, he was perturbed by the fact that the front door was not aligned with the center of the entrance hall.
—Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 15 May 2023
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For months, the startling image of the lurid leader marching down the Mall has perturbed the public.
—Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 12 June 2017
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He was clearly perturbed with the closed-door, rushed process that had produced the GOP’s repeal plans.
—Dylan Scott, Vox, 26 Aug. 2018
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The former are short missives which do not perturb the ecosystem.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2013
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Fitch coached in his grating style, perturbing many of the players.
—Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2019
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Becca, by the way, isn't perturbed that her breakup was on television.
—Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 7 Mar. 2018
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Whether Trump knows enough to be perturbed by this sort of gamesmanship is an open question.
—Jason Zengerle, GQ, 8 Aug. 2017
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Dear Miss Manners: I was quite perturbed to receive a birthday card that had clearly been sent to my friend and then reused and sent to me.
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
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In Hawaiian myth and culture, Pele is the goddess of fire and volcano and devours the Big Island when she is perturbed.
—Angela Fritz, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2018
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For now, the Russia allegations seem not to have perturbed him much.
—The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
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Fans more recently acquainted with the book or with the 1994 movie might be perturbed by the slight changes, but going in cold is preferable.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 11 May 2018
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There is no doubt that things are perturbing and peculiar.
—Samantha Harvey, Time, 12 May 2020
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In Alter do Chao, the arrest of the firefighters wasn’t the first controversy this year to perturb the town’s peaceful vibe.
—Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
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At best, one of them would laugh at a joke, but for the most part, their expressions were perturbed, disturbed by what had just happened on the field in the 17-3 victory.
—Matt Stahl | Mstahl@al.com, al, 16 Sep. 2023
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None of the lasting, successful couples on the show have procreated, a fact that seems to have perturbed Lachey.
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
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But they both were perturbed by the lack of innovation in the auto industry.
—Brett Smith For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 29 Nov. 2019
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He was more perturbed by the omission of Sabonis, who leads the NBA in rebounding, double-doubles and triple-doubles.
—Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 16 Feb. 2024
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Oddly, he doesn’t seem perturbed by the presence of a surveillance camera.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2023
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She's perturbed when one of her residents turns up dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft.
—Maureen Lee Lenker and Devan Coggan, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023
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In Minnesota, Loons fans were puzzled and perturbed at the interruption but soon were adding their own well-wishes to a stranger.
—Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 17 June 2019
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Clearly they were perturbed by what was happening, and the oddest was the Galapagos Turtles, which are huge.
—Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
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Victim perturbed In my opinion, offenders like Bassett are the very worst in our society.
—Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 31 May 2024
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