How to Use disturbance in a Sentence

disturbance

noun

• Fish are able to detect even slight disturbances in the water.
• Neighbors called the police to report a disturbance.
• She doesn't want any more disturbances while she is studying.
• He reacts badly to disturbance of his daily routine.
• The violence that soldiers experience in war can lead to emotional disturbance in later years.
• Disturbance of the river's sediment causes cloudy water.
• They were arrested for creating a disturbance.
• There’s a disturbance in the force, and George Lucas wants to help correct the problem.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2024
• The disturbance sits 345 miles south of Kingston, Jamaica.
  — Elisa Raffa, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
• There was no disturbance, and no one but Fortson in the apartment, Crump said.
  — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
• There’s fear of the dark, safety concerns and noise disturbances.
  — Jess Reia, Fortune, 30 May 2023
• The deputies found the back door kicked in and heard a disturbance inside the home after seeing two dead dogs outside.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 3 Sep. 2024
• Police believe the man causing a disturbance was the same man who had called to turn himself in.
  — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• The car had no connection to the disturbance call, police said.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2022
• The group started causing a disturbance, and a fight broke out, police said.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2022
• The news release did not specify the nature of the disturbance.
  — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2023
• Police gave all three men summons to appear in court for the noise disturbance.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2023
• The largest gas leak had caused a surface disturbance of well over 1 km (0.6 mile) in diameter, the armed forces said.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2022
• Sunspots are magnetic disturbances on the sun’s surface that can be as big as Earth.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
• But as the years pass, the strain builds until, like an avalanche on a snow-laden mountain, one small disturbance sets off a chain reaction.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• With that said, Sharpe should not have been allowed to return to his seat after causing the disturbance.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2023
• The rapper tried to fight back, Lazzaro said, and the group is alleged to have fled after employees heard the disturbance.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2023
• Lucas was responding to a report of a disturbance and a fight in progress at the store in October 2020.
  — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
• Police say the incident started when the man went to the woman’s home and a disturbance occurred.
  — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 12 May 2024
• The disturbance is expected to drift southward over the next couple of days and landfall of the storm is not expected.
  — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 1 June 2023
• The woman had been evicted earlier in the day due to causing a disturbance.
  — cleveland, 28 Jan. 2023
• In shallow water, fish are always on high alert and will spook at the slightest disturbance.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 17 Jan. 2023
• The man was in the hospital’s psychiatric wing and was causing a disturbance.
  — cleveland, 2 Dec. 2022
• Afterward, further development is likely while the disturbance meanders over the western Caribbean Sea through the weekend.
  — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
• There’d been disturbances in some Parisian neighborhoods, and rifle-toting police officers kept striding by confidently.
  — Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024