Example Sentences

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Most troublingly, many of these women say they have never been asked on a date.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

Some of the accounts conjure actual Mapplethorpe photos, while others are deeply, troublingly fictional.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2023

“Most troublingly, the child remains with the Masts to this day.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2023

In the United States, colleagues, my school’s Black Law Students Association, and, more troublingly, a police officer who stopped me on the streets of St. Louis all thought I was Black.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2023

Something inhuman and yet troublingly personal lay in the performance; it invaded the onlookers with a sense of disquietude.

From South Wind by Douglas, Norman