How to Use uneasily in a Sentence

uneasily

adverb

• As his dread and fear reach a fever pitch, we are uneasily forced to choose sides.
  — Jenny Offill, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• And yet the three of them straddled two cultures as uneasily as the Otomi.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• After their initial shock, the home crowd at The Jane groaned uneasily.
  — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 24 May 2018
• Founded in 1971, the LP has flitted uneasily between alliances with the left and the right.
  — Lucy Steigerwald, The New Republic, 29 July 2019
• The officer got the man to exit the car, and the officer noted the man moved slowly and uneasily.
  — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 26 Feb. 2022
• The mystery plot and the few jokes sit uneasily together.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 26 Jan. 2022
• Her sense of her rights coexists uneasily with the world into which she’s been thrust.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022
• Californians have long lived uneasily in the presence of the San Andreas fault, the massive rift that runs the length of the state.
  — Gene J. Koprowski, Fox News, 15 Jan. 2010
• The woman and her daughter look uneasily at the man, and then at me, bedazzled sweatshirts in hand.
  — Sarah John, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• Momoa plays Dante like a flamboyant Disney villain, which is a cute change of pace but fits uneasily in the world of the movie.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 17 May 2023
• Overall, the two-day dance between Trump and the globalists amid the Alps went smoothly, if uneasily.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• America is not Nazi Germany; it is not Rwanda in 1992, perched uneasily on the edge of an abyss.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 20 June 2018
• Tweets confirmed that the crowd inside the Dolby Theatre laughed uneasily at first, but then grew silent.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2022
• For 17 years, the Rajabi and Tanami families have shared the house uneasily.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2021
• More from The White Lotus, a show where even the trees feel uneasily caught between nature and colonialism.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2021
• But the villain costume sits uneasily on Swift’s shoulders, and even worse, the songwriting just isn’t there.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2021
• But the villain costume sits uneasily on Swift’s shoulders, and even worse, the songwriting just isn’t there.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
• Parts of Finland were ruled for 500 years (sometimes uneasily, to be honest) by the kingdom of Sweden.
  — Marja Heinonen, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
• But the visceral value of these objects sits uneasily beside the painful history of how some of them got there in the first place.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
• One late summer evening in New York City, the pandemic held uneasily in check, my wife and I headed for a meal at one of the city’s new outdoor dining spots.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Wired, 2 Dec. 2020
• And while this convection is brewing, the tip-top of the blue planet is also shifting uneasily.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 26 Oct. 2021
• Some are dead, while others are among the thousands lingering uneasily in refugee camps or paying high rents elsewhere in the city.
  — NBC News, 5 Feb. 2018
• Beijing has watched uneasily as the war in Ukraine has driven the US and its European allies closer.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
• In this uneven but peculiarly potent movie, the violence of the past looms uneasily over the present.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• The other moderators laugh uneasily, and the scene ends.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• There’s a transience to the town today that sits uneasily alongside its ancient castle-crown and its timeless white cliffs.
  — Samuel Earle, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2019
• After the screening and panel talk, guests departed uneasily from their seats out into the chilly New York night.
  — Lauren Sanchez, Vogue, 3 May 2019
• Then again, every day is a question, as Pac-12 teams uneasily await the morning’s antigen test results.
  — oregonlive, 15 Nov. 2020
• The airline trade body IATA has reacted uneasily to the news of the takeover, seeing it as a reduction in choice of lease partners for its members.
  — John Strickland, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• The bass offers muffled comfort, an accordion weeps, and even the drum stick clicks wobble uneasily.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024