How to Use unsettling in a Sentence

unsettling

adjective

• That is an unsettling thought for the rest of the world.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
• The last month has been wild, and unsettling, and vexing.
  — Michael Silver, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Oct. 2022
• The mass grave is an unsettling sight to someone who was brought up in the worship of books.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2023
• So it’s been unsettling to find out the Avengers are Earth-bound, after all.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
• The change has been unsettling because the city’s broad project is widely shared.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• The emptiness of Des Moines feels as vast and unsettling as its Great Plains setting.
  — Vulture, 16 Dec. 2022
• But, that doesn’t change that the result is a little unsettling.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 June 2022
• Just as unsettling, guns are now the number one cause of death among children.
  — CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
• The footage was unsettling, which only helped to extend its reach.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• There were no other guests and, more unsettling, no overnight staff.
  — Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2024
• And that’s unsettling but brilliant news for the 49ers — Wilson won the Super Bowl in his second year as a starter.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• The stranger asked to see Patrick, but after he was informed that the parson was ill in bed, the encounter took an unsettling turn.
  — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
• For much of the populace, talk of death can be morbid, grim or unsettling.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 13 Oct. 2022
• All of this sounds unsettling—but is there any reason to panic?
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 20 May 2022
• This question gets to the very heart of the challenge for anyone trying to run a business in these unsettling times.
  — Fortune, 21 July 2022
• But the health effects of such a program might also be unsettling.
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2024
• But on screen as Kang, there's an unsettling weight to his performance.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• But the subject defies her initial plan and becomes far more unsettling in the process.
  — Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• Rashida Jones had an unsettling encounter with a Furby back in the 1990s.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
• Here are some cool ideas that range from one of the best, if most unsettling, movies of 2024 to great shows and concerts and more fabulous French fries (mmm … French fries).
  — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
• But just how bad must their secrets be to commit mass suicide, on camera, as a group of them do in the film’s most unsettling scene?
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
• And two unsettling comments are too-briefly dropped in at the end, when some of the women who were eliminated talk about the feedback the judges gave them.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
• The most unsettling adjustment came when Em didn’t feel well.
  — Alex Belth, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2022
• With all the unsettling talk these days about AI, this particular species of villainy lends the film a new-style dose of pulp paranoia.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2023
• The discord between sound and vision in The Zone of Interest is deeply unsettling.
  — Hazlitt, 6 Mar. 2024
• Though the waters were calm and familiar to us, the new sensation of boating at night was a bit unsettling.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Yet the very prominence of this theme makes the confluence of hip-hop’s mid-century mark and Dave Jolicoeur’s death all the more unsettling.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
• The film is rated PG-13 for some strong language and unsettling images.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2022
• Who’s Watching tells the unsettling story of Caleb, a metalhead loner who becomes obsessed with his co-worker, Krista.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024
• Each pulls us out of our comfortable understanding of our surroundings, in ways both joyful and unsettling.
  — Jeff Vandermeer, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024