Example sentences for: unnerving

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

  • Great fun for kids, but unnerving for watching parents.

  • Brian Dennehy's Willy Loman is "played with majestic, unnerving transparency" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ); Elizabeth Franz (as Linda Loman) draws equally ecstatic reviews.

  • But of course the other circumstance that makes the two women different is that Eleanor really had no initial way of claiming power for herself, whereas Hillary could have launched her own political career decades ago, instead of offering us that unnerving two-for-the-price-of-one arrangement.

  • The article, published in 1994 in a prestigious, peer-reviewed journal called Statistical Science , argued with unnerving force that the first book of the Bible contains embedded codes that predict events that long postdate its writing and that these codes are, statistically speaking, "not due to chance."

  • The brilliant cinematographer, Changwei Gu, shoots her nude through a doorway of hanging beads, and in close-up through a fogged, rain-drizzled windshield; he keeps her simultaneously naked and veiled, and the effect is both alluring and unnerving.


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