How to Use disquiet in a Sentence

disquiet

1 of 2 verb

• Henceforth, the movie shifts from the disquieting to the freaky and, by the end, the absolutely nuts.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 7 June 2018
• There are some tells in Allen’s account that are disquieting.
  — Peter Biskind, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• The dreams are full of disquieting imagery — the fluttering of moths, a timeworn theater, a frozen corpse.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 May 2018
• West Virginia hung on to win, 86-80, a moral victory for the Bison, and a somewhat disquieting one for the Mountaineers.
  — Ben Shpigel, Zach Schonbrun and Pat Borzi, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017
• The first prop is disquieting, the last an Instagram moment.
  — Steve Mannheimer, Indianapolis Star, 26 Sep. 2017
• Kalder’s point is the disquieting one that the worst tyrants of the past century were hardly the brutal less-than-literates of our imagination.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
• And if that weren’t disquieting enough, the circumstances of these defeats are hitting a rage trigger for their most outspoken fans.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2017
• And one phrase used by Khan may have been particularly disquieting to them.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
• This controversy, no matter how disquieting it is, took place over a decade ago.
  — Josh Spiegel, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
• Also disquieting about the rule: Nowhere does the agency publish the list of entities that comply with the systems integrity rule.
  — Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
• To the contrary, all of the plausible explanations should disquiet even the fiercest partisans.
  — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 12 May 2017
• Graduation’s color palate is a wash of irritating grays and disquieting blues; the weather is lousy, and the jungle gyms are crowded with kids who won’t wait their turn.
  — Jordan Hoffman, HWD, 6 Apr. 2017
• Graduation’s color palate is a wash of irritating grays and disquieting blues; the weather is lousy, and the jungle gyms are crowded with kids who won’t wait their turn.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 6 Apr. 2017
• Public health officials and Democrats responded skeptically, citing false hopes and disquiet over pitting the health of the economy against the health of the people.
  — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 24 Mar. 2020
• Scruggs’s look at the way subservience is enforced—partly by the oppressed themselves, brainwashed into acceptance—is disquieting, to say the least.
  — The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• Initial expectations are rather modest, and there are still aspects of VR, such as the isolation from the world around you, that are disquieting and which don't yet have any truly great solutions.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2017
• My brushes with being famous in Til Tuesday were disquieting.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• Others are disquieting bit players given promine through tight closeups in the film's boxy aspect ratio, who say nary a word, their marked and haggard faces saying more than any dialogue ever could.
  — Boyd Van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2018
• Eric Fischl, who worked for the art handlers at 420, painted disquieting suburban scenes.
  — Town & Country, 18 Apr. 2019
• The first day of the unprecedented shelter-in-place order for six Bay Area counties went smoothly, as few people ventured outside and commercial districts had an air of disquieting calm.
  — Lizzie Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• The images are charged with disquieting atmospheres of espionage and hints of the extraordinary.
  — Julia Couzens and Special To The Bee, sacbee, 19 Jan. 2018
• Everything is as if carved out of wood, generic, childlike and artificial—disquieting if not futile.
  — Lance Esplund, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2019
• Given all that is going on, Cook’s quiet about developers was disquieting.
  — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
• The unserious manner in which most members of our political class have treated this question is disquieting.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 22 June 2018
• The fact that the president, who has enormous power to make life better or worse for immigrant communities, has dehumanizing views is disquieting enough.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 14 Aug. 2018
• Dubinskis’ disquieting autobiographical paintings of herself lost in thought, or taking leave of her friends in Maine for a loft in Philadelphia, are rendered starkly in oil, gold leaf, and wax on wood.
  — Edith Newhall, Philly.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• Still, there's something disquieting, but also very freeing, about seeing young women simply stop being polite, and instead give into their worst impulses.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Hereditary flips that by frequently showing characters going about their day only to be interrupted by the sight of something just off-screen that ranges from disquieting to horrifying.
  — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 9 June 2018
• The cuts were particularly disquieting for leaders faced with reducing services and cutting staff right before the holidays.
  — Rachel Dissell, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2019
• The action would be mostly symbolic, but the fact that Escondido is entering the immigration fray again is disquieting for those who believe the North County city is harmed when the council gets involved in national politics.
  — J. Harry Jones, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Apr. 2018

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disquiet

2 of 2 noun

• There is increasing public disquiet about the number of violent crimes in the city.
• An eleventh-hour dust-up about the future of coal only added to the disquiet.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2021
• Yeah Yeahs were born in this time of turbulence and disquiet in the world.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2022
• And that’s why a parental lack of effort brings disquiet.
  — Lizzie Skurnick, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
• So far, at 8 years old, my son hasn't shown any signs of disquiet or fluster around the topic of his race.
  — Nicole Blades, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2017
• Next to him on the pew, Yunuén Carrillo Quiroz gazed up at the altar with a look of mingled pride and disquiet.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• The team’s training camp shows few signs of dissent or disquiet.
  — Rick Maese, The Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2019
• Boundaries drawn by the United States nurture some of the disquiet.
  — New York Times, 2 Oct. 2021
• In the little town of Matawan, 11 miles inland on the tidal currents of Matawan Creek, all was calm despite the growing disquiet at the shore.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 31 May 2017
• While the job market remains strong, the prevailing mood in New York City is one of disquiet.
  — Frederick Peters, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• Adding to the disquiet: people can't use history to ease their fears.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2020
• Perri’s goal was to convey the sense of terror and disquiet that the film imparts through its title art.
  — Eliza Brooke, Vox, 12 Nov. 2018
• Russian leaders should feel deep disquiet in the face of a deeply entrenched body of precedents since the Second World War.
  — Michael A. Newton, CNN, 15 Mar. 2022
• This is a woman who has inspired revolt and disquiet in the Gileadean state.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• Even the occasional Drake smash is not enough to disturb the disquiet.
  — Niela Orr, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• The week’s opinion polls also point to a growing disquiet.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2023
• And the rest of us feeling a mounting, disturbing sense of unease and disquiet.
  — Andrew Malcolm, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2018
• By the end of the weekend, one of the guns would be used in a startling daylight killing that for many became a turning point in a season of mounting disquiet.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2018
• From within her living room, Du Mingjun was on the receiving end of this disquiet.
  — Betsy Joles, 1843, 16 Mar. 2020
• In a sign of the disquiet in Dublin about that order, the Irish government failed to meet a January deadline to collect the money.
  — James Kanter, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
• But the idea that a sizable piece of humanity’s trash is going to litter the moon has fostered disquiet around the globe.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2022
• Sunny goes to watch the second test match between Sri Lanka and England—a game that will end up quelling his disquiet.
  — Carey Baraka, The Atlantic, 28 July 2022
• Their father had always been so steady and predictable and was never prone to this sort of profound disquiet.
  — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• There has been some disquiet this week about Elizabeth's health.
  — Fox News, 23 Oct. 2021
• That evening in her hotel room, Vinuesa thought about the day with growing disquiet.
  — Oscar Schwartz, Wired, 9 Dec. 2021
• And yet the back-to-normal buzz that Salesforce worked so hard to generate was tinged with a streak of disquiet about the company’s own return-to-work plans.
  — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2022
• Suka says he's also noticed a decrease in sales over the past month as buyers grapple with the disquiet that the conflict in Ukraine has brought about.
  — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 25 Mar. 2022
• But one surprise has been the comparative lack of disquiet about standing so long in line.
  — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2022
• Finally learning why it’d been kept from me has reignited some of that disquiet.
  — Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021
• In this new phase of Covid, what constituted safety was still up for debate, leading to a vague sense of disquiet among the teachers.
  — Meg Bernhard, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023

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