Example sentences for: unsettling

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

  • That freakish doggie paddle he does before revealing himself is more unsettling than any of the hokey vampire film that follows.

  • Almost as unsettling is the conversation Horwitz has with the bright black woman who founded an Afrocentric alternative school in Selma, a conversation that soon breaks down in a venomous exchange over Louis Farrakhan.

  • And the late paintings retain their unsettling power.

  • The generic answer is A Time To Be Born (1942)--a dazzling and unsettling evocation of New York City on the verge of World War II, which grabs and holds from Paragraph 1. Still, in many ways, I think Turn, Magic Wheel (1936) is even more perfect--a fleet-footed satire of literary life and celebrity authors (namely Ernest H.), and one of Powell's few "modernist" books.

  • Given the rote piety of so much Holocaust rhetoric (there's more of it on the ICP wall panels), openly artificial treatments from such "nonserious" realms as comics and toy soldiers have an unsettling power to thaw and refocus our feelings.


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