Example sentences for: disconcerting

How can you use “disconcerting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Brinkley's appearance as a pitchman in the middle of his old program was so disconcerting that when This Week resumed, co-host Cokie Roberts attempted to salvage the show's good name by reiterating Brinkley's disclaimer.

  • This is the disconcerting news delivered by Arlie Russell Hochschild in her important new book, a sequel to her best-selling The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home (1989).

  • The really disconcerting thing about Bryan's decision, though, is that it seems so blatantly to be more about gaining the favor of Wall Street than about improving the performance of the company.

  • Perhaps the most disconcerting thing for the newcomer is how to find your way around.

  • Yes, you can sing just about every one of Dickinson's poems to the tune of "I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing" (try it, it's fun), but that kind of surface-level orderliness is undermined by the speaker's disconcerting propensity to topple into the abyss, whether prompted by union with God, union with the beloved, or union with death.


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