Example Sentences

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The ramifications of not being able to prepare have been disturbing for those helping out in the community.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2022

There have been disturbing reports of increased tensions among Sudan’s different security forces, Perthes added.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 28, 2022

“The accounts I’ve read and heard have been disturbing, distressing and disorienting and it’s completely unacceptable that any woman at the ‘Today’ show experienced this kind of treatment,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2021

Opting in, the siblings learned a fact about themselves that would have been disturbing, were it not so obviously in error: Jackie had an uncle, the software told them—an Uncle Alex.

From Slate • May 21, 2013

"But you wouldn't have been disturbing me," protested she, leaning against the door frame, less than two feet away and directly facing him.

From The Grain of Dust by Phillips, David Graham