Example Sentences

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This will be upsetting to learn if you, like me, spent the better part of two decades cutting cords to escape paying for a bunch of sports channels you never watch.

From The Verge • Aug. 15, 2022

It will be upsetting if he wins, but at that point we will have to get back to work preventing as many further catastrophes as possible.

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2020

“The decisions leading to these instructions are not made lightly, as we are keenly aware that they will be upsetting to many of the faithful,” the archbishop said in a statement.

From Washington Times • Mar. 15, 2020

So any time that happens, it will be upsetting to see it go.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2016

"Then you may clear out of this," he said, "and go back to your own place; for I won't keep a wife in the house that will be upsetting my judgments."

From Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish by Gregory, Lady