Example Sentences

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The company’s trajectory is unlikely to change as long as uncertainty over the deal discomfits advertisers, the main source of Twitter’s revenue.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2022

But in all dealings with Saudi Arabia, Mr. Biden should stand by the principles that Khashoggi so passionately cared for, however much it discomfits the pouty monarch in Riyadh.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2022

Whatever it meant in the past, and however it discomfits the present, the Aeneid has, alas, always anticipated the future.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

“Little Panic” grips and discomfits in the best way.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2018

It is simply an exercise of intellectual gladiatorship, in which the man who has the most skill and muscle discomfits his antagonist.

From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)