How to Use perturb in a Sentence

perturb

verb

• It perturbed him that his son was thinking about leaving school.
• The Sweeneys and the Fords are perturbed by the police’s handling of the case.
  — Erin Logan, baltimoresun.com, 22 July 2019
• Still, some are perturbed at the prospect of power cuts.
  — Victoria Burnett, New York Times, 12 July 2016
• Your own model of it doesn't perturb anything at the end of the day.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2012
• I'm deeply perturbed by how this process has played out.
  — NOLA.com, 2 June 2017
• McGahn was perturbed by the call and did not intend to act on the request.
  — Linda Greenhouse, The New York Review of Books, 30 May 2019
• For its part, Peloton doesn’t appear to be perturbed by the ban.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 9 Mar. 2023
• Initially, he was perturbed by the fact that the front door was not aligned with the center of the entrance hall.
  — Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 21 Aug. 2015
• Initially, he was perturbed by the fact that the front door was not aligned with the center of the entrance hall.
  — Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 15 May 2023
• For months, the startling image of the lurid leader marching down the Mall has perturbed the public.
  — Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 12 June 2017
• He was clearly perturbed with the closed-door, rushed process that had produced the GOP’s repeal plans.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 26 Aug. 2018
• The former are short missives which do not perturb the ecosystem.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2013
• Fitch coached in his grating style, perturbing many of the players.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• Becca, by the way, isn't perturbed that her breakup was on television.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Whether Trump knows enough to be perturbed by this sort of gamesmanship is an open question.
  — Jason Zengerle, GQ, 8 Aug. 2017
• Dear Miss Manners: I was quite perturbed to receive a birthday card that had clearly been sent to my friend and then reused and sent to me.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
• In Hawaiian myth and culture, Pele is the goddess of fire and volcano and devours the Big Island when she is perturbed.
  — Angela Fritz, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2018
• For now, the Russia allegations seem not to have perturbed him much.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• Fans more recently acquainted with the book or with the 1994 movie might be perturbed by the slight changes, but going in cold is preferable.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 11 May 2018
• There is no doubt that things are perturbing and peculiar.
  — Samantha Harvey, Time, 12 May 2020
• In Alter do Chao, the arrest of the firefighters wasn’t the first controversy this year to perturb the town’s peaceful vibe.
  — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
• At best, one of them would laugh at a joke, but for the most part, their expressions were perturbed, disturbed by what had just happened on the field in the 17-3 victory.
  — Matt Stahl | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2023
• None of the lasting, successful couples on the show have procreated, a fact that seems to have perturbed Lachey.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
• But they both were perturbed by the lack of innovation in the auto industry.
  — Brett Smith For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 29 Nov. 2019
• He was more perturbed by the omission of Sabonis, who leads the NBA in rebounding, double-doubles and triple-doubles.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 16 Feb. 2024
• Oddly, he doesn’t seem perturbed by the presence of a surveillance camera.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2023
• She's perturbed when one of her residents turns up dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker and Devan Coggan, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023
• In Minnesota, Loons fans were puzzled and perturbed at the interruption but soon were adding their own well-wishes to a stranger.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 17 June 2019
• Some passengers still remained perturbed by the incident despite Delta’s mea culpa.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 3 July 2024
• None of this perturbed Schwarzenegger, who was a famously quick study, almost lupine in his famished eagerness to learn, trading weight-lifting tips with his distinguished co-star James Earl Jones in return for actorly advice.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024