How to Use unease in a Sentence

unease

noun

• A feeling of unease came over her.
• They noticed increasing signs of unease among the workers.
• And just the unease of the best people in the bourgeoisie.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2023
• Your sense of unease might turn out to be more about you than about them.
  — Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
• Part of this unease was about crime—that was the part that Adams, a former cop, talked about the most.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• The lack of transparency in the face of a covid surge has prompted unease abroad.
  — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
• Even as the morning sun casts a golden hue over the canopy, a sense of unease lingers.
  — Taiwo Adebayo, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2024
• The third reason was union unease with Shapiro over school choice.
  — Jeremy Lott, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Aug. 2024
• And yet Mike Brown, the beach’s ocean rescue chief, looked out at the water with unease.
  — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 16 June 2022
• There is a sense of unease in college sports over what may come next.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• Already, some are feeling a sense of unease due to the shootings.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2023
• But Dan soon picks up on both Jamie’s unease and Will’s needling treatment of him.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023
• The first case of polio in the U.S. in a decade has triggered intense debate and unease.
  — Awi Federgruen, STAT, 16 Sep. 2022
• Like any good thriller, there’s a constant stream of new wrinkles to add to the growing sense of unease.
  — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• There was a sense of unease in the newsroom after the interview.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2024
• This week the sense of unease spread from the corridors of power to coffee shops on Main Street.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2022
• That said, the conclusion is a stunner that wraps the yarn nicely with a deep unease.
  — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• But we’re so conditioned to expect the worst that a sense of unease remains present.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2023
• This is more like the unease that comes with a hurricane forecast.
  — Bill Speros, Orlando Sentinel, 16 June 2024
• This blow to Israel comes at a time of deep internal unease.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• As the clock ticks, unease and fear have grown into simmering anger.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2021
• There's a lot of unease inside the Manhattan DA's office at this time.
  — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2023
• The young man speaks of his unease at the idea of being in such a city, deserted by any form of life or habitation.
  — Noelann Bourgade, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2024
• Caleb Martin smiled at the question, but there also was an unease.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2023
• But Mothman is unique in that, to some of its fans, the creature invokes a sense of unease the past is unfair, the world is out of balance.
  — Colin Dickey, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2023
• Yet his steady gaze prompts a similar sense of unease in the viewer, as does the small pin on his jacket that reads Bomb Hanoi.
  — Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
• But in the camp, Gatjani and others said, the young-looking forces carrying guns have brought a sense of unease.
  — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2021
• The spot comes on the heels of Biden’s return to the campaign trail, and Democratic unease about appearing with him.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2022
• Sometimes the gotcha moment in a story feels more like a knife in your gut, uncovering your own discomfort and unease.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2024
• The image of Trump's face in close-up highlights the unease and division felt by many progressive Americans about his leadership.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024