Example Sentences

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Walking around the exposed site was unsettling, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

But the truth is that, for anyone who isn’t already immersed in the aesthetics of the megachurch world, the whole event was unsettling.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2025

I was confident I was being scammed in some way but the idiomatic language and contextual knowledge of Westminster was unsettling.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2024

This situation was unsettling to some of the Amazigh, who then launched a successful war of religious reform against the Almoravids and established their own reformist West African kingdom, the Almohad Kingdom.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

This is weird to say, but seeing Dad out in the real world was unsettling.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller