Example Sentences

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“Not a smile. It’s not the smile that will disconcert me. Not at all. Or his eyes that will make me afraid. Because I’m not afraid of him.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2017

The news of Soffer's discovery, which is too recent to have found its way into Angier's or Hales' book, will disconcert many feminists as well as sociobiologists.

From Time Magazine Archive

Show them at once that you do not think with them, and that you will disconcert any of their inventions by breaking in with the truth. 

From Friends in Council — First Series by Helps, Arthur, Sir

A man has a wound in his great toe, and a violent and perilous fever at the same time; and he refuses to take the medicines for the fever because it will disconcert the toe!

From Peter Plymley's Letters, and selected essays by Smith, Sydney

Only don't look at me too closely, or you will disconcert me.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various