How to Use unnerve in a Sentence

unnerve

verb

• Seeing the police in there unnerved me.
• She was unnerved by his strange manner.
• But the way the Warriors looked in this 1-3 start is unnerving, to say the least.
  — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• There are problems in the world that Trump doesn't want to unnerve you about.
  — Windsor Mann, TheWeek, 27 Feb. 2020
• That would be wrong, and would unnerve the current dog.
  — Star Tribune, 7 Mar. 2021
• There’s a scene that unnerves me from the AMC show Humans.
  — John C. Havens, Quartz, 10 July 2019
• The result is unnerving both for the experts and the public.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
• But its demands can also cow and daunt and unnerve them.
  — New York Times, 23 May 2021
• If Stanford has a lot of room for improvement, that should unnerve the other teams in the Pac-12 and across the country.
  — Steve Kroner, SFChronicle.com, 7 Jan. 2021
• There was never a doubt in my mind—still isn’t—and in some ways this certainty unnerved me.
  — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2023
• Slumps fail to unnerve Cronenworth, the Padres learned first-hand a season ago.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
• The mass shooting was just the latest to unnerve Americans in 2022.
  — CBS News, 17 July 2022
• League One Rochdale settled very quickly and appeared unnerved by the big stage, looking bright on the counter.
  — SI.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• And a truck can be perfectly safe even when close enough to unnerve a bicyclist.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Nov. 2019
• Her normally placid town has been unnerved by the government’s push to weaken the courts.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• But the dissonance among the Russian leader’s base must unnerve the Kremlin.
  — Timothy Frye, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2024
• The 2020 gold rush in markets is starting to unnerve even some longtime fans of precious metals.
  — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2020
• John Micklethwait's Sunday memo unnerved some of the staffers who received it.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 26 Nov. 2019
• Which is why the new Monmouth University poll out of Iowa, a caucus state which holds the first vote in the process, should unnerve Sanders and his supporters.
  — oregonlive.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• One of Reisner’s workers entered the tomb and, likely unnerved by the knee-deep water, hastily made his way to the third and final chamber.
  — Kristin Romey, National Geographic, 2 July 2019
• Some longstanding owners have been unnerved by the influx of new money.
  — Ira Boudway, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024
• While that could unnerve traders, most economists aren't too worried about the headline number.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 1 June 2021
• And these movies have left audiences stunned, unnerved, and offended.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 12 July 2018
• Svetlana Hoboshapova, 62, said the shelling unnerved her.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• Along with that up-is-down and vice-versa theme in 2020 comes a reality that may unnerve fans who like to tout East Division supremacy.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2020
• Kashkari’s encounter with the Cooler Screens was the sort of thing that could unnerve a central banker worried about an inflationary mind-set taking root.
  — Michael Steinberger, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• Even if wages are rising as fast, or even faster, an inflation upturn can unnerve people.
  — James Pethokoukis, The Week, 10 Nov. 2021
• That attack was said to have unnerved the Biden administration.
  — Paul Sonne, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• In part, the buildup comes in response to Germany’s hesitancy in sending weapons to Ukraine, which has unnerved its Eastern neighbors.
  — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• Corum erased those memories by relying on his strength and power to plow forward between the tackles and unnerve the Hawkeyes with steady gains of a few yards here and a few yards there.
  — Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024