Example Sentences

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His answers, even the ones that hint of rehearsed, PR-approved sound bites, lack the disquietingly poised delivery that many young stars learn to perfect.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2021

But monsters aren’t all they have to fear in a world where evil — another word for it is indifference — often wears a disquietingly human face.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2021

Now an encompassing suspicion of nearly every enduring institution afflicts a disquietingly large segment of the electorate.

From National Geographic • Jan. 20, 2021

A sense of the fluky contingency of life lingers disquietingly.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2021

They sounded disquietingly like signals of some sort; but after a while the knocking died away and was not heard again.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien