Example Sentences

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It isn’t just the job-destroying potential that is disturbing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

"The fact that adult writers are spending their time dissecting my face, my body, my choices, is disturbing," Brown said.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025

D’Adamo said the damage that rapid land subsidence is causing along parts of the Friant-Kern Canal is disturbing and needs to be addressed.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2024

"Given that risk management tends to focus on the largest observed floods, the ease with which our approach generates many new flood-of-records is disturbing," summarises Merz.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

Now she is disturbing me, making me doubt my own self just looking at her sauntering through the sunshafts like that.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison