unsettling

Example Sentences

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"Some of this year's report makes for unsettling reading, but it is an especially unsettled time both for the news media sector and for the world at large," Egan wrote.

From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026

That’s partly what makes the movie unsettling: the backroom aesthetic is unsettlingly generic, a space that exists everywhere and yet nowhere.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026

The term, which describes an unsettling, empty place lacking signs of life, has now become an object of fascination among young people online.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

The writer-director’s 2022 feature debut, “Plan 75,” imagined an unsettling future in which the elderly are offered a subsidy by the government to be euthanized.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

And they helped me ride out the big, unsettling waves that sometimes hit without notice.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama