Example Sentences

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The first 10 minutes of USC’s tournament debut had been disconcerting enough already.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2025

He flopped comfortably into the chair which had been disconcerting his father.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

Her ways had been disconcerting at first, but Phil had grown used to them.

From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana

The cat had been disconcerting, but the appearance of this man, whom she knew quite well, who might talk, might question her, might walk back beside her, seemed fatally disconcerting.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas