How to Use upsetting in a Sentence

upsetting

adjective

• And then there’s maybe the most upsetting of them all: Poison.
  — Vulture, 29 Sep. 2023
• The Aztecs were going to beat Furman, which wasn’t good enough to come down from the grind and emotion of upsetting the Cavs.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
• None of this has been upsetting enough to derail her, though.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
• Many parents have tried in vain to have the range moved to a more remote area or enclosed to block out the upsetting sounds.
  — Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• Upsetting Heat the end of a bar and place its hot end down on the anvil's face or on the upsetting block that projects from the base, if your anvil has one.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
• First, how is Lacey doing, and second, why was that piece so upsetting to you both?
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 23 Mar. 2023
• That's the upsetting recipe that went viral on TikTok this year.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 19 Dec. 2023
• All three details are upsetting, and none of them, as yet, can be explained.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
• This was upsetting to Gino, who hadn’t heard of the goodbye dinner.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2023
• As the months passed, their daughter began to find the visits with her parents upsetting.
  — Shoshana Walter, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• Then just 23, Howard had to face down an upsetting test screening that didn’t draw the film’s target audience.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 1 Oct. 2023
• These shifts can be upsetting for parents and can lead to confusion.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• Yet Verlander is 40, and the teres major strain near his right lat was upsetting if not shocking.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 15 May 2023
• The plucky Panthers, who barely made the playoffs in the East before upsetting Boston, might be too banged up to muster one more big rally.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
• But the most upsetting moment at this year’s Oscars came later.
  — Richard Trank, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
• Barkley was a key part of the Giants earning a playoff berth and then upsetting Minnesota in a Wild Card playoff game.
  — oregonlive, 25 July 2023
• Hot steel is enlarged by being hammered against the upsetting block.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
• The epilogue puts an upsetting exclamation point on the end of a life viewers have just spent six hours watching.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
• In less upsetting news, Apple has worked hard to brand itself as the privacy-friendly giant of Big Tech—and in many ways, that’s true.
  — WIRED, 21 Jan. 2023
• The condition can have a profound and deeply upsetting impact on a person's life.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2023
• According to the outlet, both dogs survived the incident, but the event was upsetting.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2023
• People right now are trying to erase our story, which is upsetting.
  — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2023
• For Chastain, the sequence around this moment was upsetting.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2022
• Stray shots Which is more upsetting, McGee having twice the nerve endings in his mouth, or Torres digging the dental office vibes?
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• The Portuguese sobbed on the field after the final whistle after having come so close to upsetting the mighty Americans.
  — Anne M. Peterson, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2023
• Perhaps most upsetting, though, was the pose taken by a professor — a well-meaning white man who pantomimed a big, warm bear hug.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
• Baylor went from losing its home opener to Texas State 42-31 to nearly upsetting Utah.
  — Michael Haag, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2023
• But hopefully, the scene that played out was deeper, more upsetting, but also funny and keeping you on your toes.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 3 Oct. 2023
• Carlito crossed two lanes to the other side, afraid of upsetting Omar any further.
  — Jared Lemus, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2024
• It was compounded by the fact that there were so many different components that were so upsetting.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024