How to Use unsettle in a Sentence

unsettle

verb

• Such a sudden change will unsettle her.
• The closer Nella gets to Hazel, though, the more things at work start to unsettle her.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023
• Putin has a long-track record of trying to wrongfoot and unsettle the West.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2023
• The ringing in his ears from the 113.4 mph rocket must have unsettled Winn.
  — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 15 May 2024
• The Musketeers emerged from the half with a 32-29 lead and a look in their eyes that would have unsettled Satan.
  — Adam Baum, Cincinnati.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• That unsettled him because he was used to the little cramped space.
  — Stuart Spielman and Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2024
• In fact, there’s not much that could unsettle him or his approach.
  — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2024
• But by then, the damage caused by the Dodgers’ reluctance to unsettle him had been done.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2021
• In New York, 2022 began with a string of the type of random crimes that unsettle people most.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Feb. 2022
• Even a brief stretch of snow somewhere near the skyway's highest point couldn't unsettle the NSX.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2020
• At the rim, a sheer drop-off unsettles the nerves while expansive views of the wild canyon assault the senses like a rogue tidal wave.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 11 Sep. 2019
• In his first three years, he’s dealt with the covid-19 crisis, the bizarre and still unsettled NIL rollout and the portal shaping.
  — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2023
• The group ended in one way, unsettled, but having hashed all this out.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
• Humphries said that all the attention back on Trump is unsettling her this week.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• But the movie may unsettle purists who feel that torch needs to be passed around to a more diverse crew of musicians.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2022
• Our feeling of gravity is unsettled since the three figures sink and rise in the swell.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 7 Dec. 2019
• Each day, there are reports of unsettling global events that reshape our view of the world.
  — Hannah Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• Now, decades later, the sound of fireworks still unsettles her.
  — Jerry Wu, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024
• Alessandra Cerreti set out to unsettle the Ndrangheta’s iron grip on much of southern Italy.
  — Jackson Holahan, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2018
• Will old styles of provocation still have the power to unsettle us?
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
• The tension is this: Black nerds unsettle the myth of a monolithic Blackness.
  — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
• Larry is unsettled, as a Jew, by the militant posters on the restaurant’s walls.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Still, the truce leaves unsettled the toughest and most complex issues that have divided the two sides.
  — Paul Wiseman, Houston Chronicle, 12 Dec. 2019
• The film is set in a vibrant but unsettling party which is spinning out of control.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 June 2023
• But many details of the proposal were unsettled — most notably, how to pay for it.
  — Luke Broadwater, baltimoresun.com, 25 June 2018
• Microsoft famously unsettled Google this year with the launch of the new Bing.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 14 Mar. 2023
• The best part, though, is both moving and unsettling: the stacks of unidentified family photos, many from the ’50s and ’60s.
  — Cary Darling, Houston Chronicle, 14 June 2018
• Heavy rainfall and flash flooding in the South Weather conditions in the South will stay soggy and unsettled over the next stretch of days.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 20 July 2024
• Own it, and other people's comments will lose a lot of their power to unsettle you.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• The waters around Florida have been unsettled, and the pattern has only recently begun to improve.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024