Example Sentences

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So it was discomfiting to discover Molly standing beside her one day, holding two paper cups.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018

Two years into Xi Jinping’s presidency, China’s politics were turning away from the liberalising trend of the previous three decades, towards a hard-edged nationalism that was discomfiting China’s immediate neighbours and their western allies.

From The Guardian • Feb. 3, 2017

Going into the Valley of the Kings felt like sneaking into the Metropolitan Museum in the middle of the night: I had the place to myself, but the privilege was discomfiting.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 20, 2016

The prospect of now spending two hours watching Linda Gray—Sue Ellen Ewing in “Dallas”, as was—making her panto debut as the Fairy Godmother was discomfiting.

From Economist • Dec. 17, 2014

It was discomfiting to observe how Kimberly lurched, keen to do the right thing and not knowing what the right thing was.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie