How to Use disturbing in a Sentence

disturbing

adjective

• The White House last month called the video tragic and disturbing.
  — Samira Puskar, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Many of the disturbing videos appear to have been posted in the last two days.
  — Khadijah Khogeer, NBC News, 27 June 2023
• End of carousel Imagine if the boyfriend weren’t disturbing.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• But there has to be a plan between now and Thursday to erase this disturbing trend.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
• Some of that is due to a disturbing lawsuit that was filed and then dismissed within the span of three weeks in 2022.
  — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
• The disturbing trend is adding to mounting losses due to fraud.
  — Carter Evans, CBS News, 19 July 2023
• At last—rather disturbing—count, the Titan has 40 hours of breathable air left.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 21 June 2023
• The actions came amid a disturbing increase in hate crimes.
  — Marcia Kramer, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
• The most disturbing of them: Are the mothers castrating their young?
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 29 June 2023
• The disturbing details of this young woman’s death are truly the stuff of nightmares.
  — Sarah Shannon, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
• Warning: Some of the videos below may be disturbing to some viewers.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 28 June 2023
• As the mourning concluded at the cemetery and Amal's aunt placed a poster of the girl at the spot where she was killed, the disturbing hum of drones resumed overhead.
  — Diego Ibarra Sánchez, NPR, 29 Feb. 2024
• Both sounded kind of disturbing and lacked any soul or feeling.
  — Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
• The thoughts are highly disturbing and might cause a trauma response.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 2 May 2023
• The sight was so disturbing that ESPN declined to show replays.
  — cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
• The disturbing body camera footage was released last week.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 18 Sep. 2023
• When DeStefano got that disturbing call on Jan. 20, her 15-year-old daughter Briana had been away on a ski trip.
  — Justin Green, ABC News, 7 July 2023
• Her bald head opens at the back to unveil a disturbing metal cap that hides the whirring mechanics within her skull.
  — Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 29 Feb. 2024
• One of the most disturbing aspects of The Downward Spiral comes from the disembodied voices that cut across the songs.
  — Adam Steiner, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2024
• If the music were more somber, people would realize the images are disturbing and the song heretical. . . .
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• The person of interest is believed to be the victim's 33-year-old son who shared a disturbing video on YouTube in connection with the crime.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 31 Jan. 2024
• McDonald said one of most disturbing threats took place in January, the same month that the trial was set to begin.
  — Jean Casarez, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024
• Most disturbing is that some of these figures are clearly just trying to be seen with Williams in paparazzi shots or on camera.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Feb. 2024
• His son, 42-year-old Raul de la Cruz, was in the middle of a schizophrenic episode and had posted a disturbing video on Facebook that morning.
  — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2023
• Amid all the deeply disturbing and discouraging news, there are gems that remind me that goodness abounds.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2023
• Even the most disturbing and explicit horror films, or the most gruesome action films, are never slapped with an NC-17.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Aug. 2023
• Equally disturbing is that many of the scenes in The Glory are based on real life, in a country plagued by bullying and school violence.
  — TIME, 27 Dec. 2023
• Being in a big city among so many strangers can be at turns exhilarating and disturbing.
  — Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• The style and delivery of the article is beyond disturbing.
  — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• There’s also some disturbing dream imagery of a giant skull-like creature, Master Mold, and a villain’s head is set on fire.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024