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How to use disquiet in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Disquiet means lack of quiet; absence of tranquility in body or mind. Example: “He felt disquieted by the lack of interest the child had shown.”

Examples of disquiet by meaning

verbTo make (someone or something) worried or anxious.

  • He felt disquieted by the lack of interest the child had shown.
  • What disquieted the Christian friends was not that this was an awful state of affairs theologically.2014, Graham Ward, “Sense and Sensibility: The Unbearable Lightness of Certainty”, in Unbelievable: Why We Believe and Why We Don't...

More sentences with disquiet

  • There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC. From the entry hour
  • Adèle, more and more disquieted, finally spoke to Margaret of her uneasiness.1915 April, Helen Jetmore Major, “When Fancy Leaves the Narrow Path”, in The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, volume 45, number 4…. From the entry disquieted
  • For, in essence, the caveman concept implies the abhorrent—undignified human bestiality and a disquieting association with apelike ancestors.2010, Allen A. Debus, Prehistoric Monsters: The Real and Imagined Creatures of the Past That We Love to Fear, page 87. From the entry caveman
  • Since mid-day their plangent, disquieting cries had foretold its approach.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth (Duckworth hardback), page 49. From the entry plangent
  • This leaves us with the possibility, disquieting to current anthropological assumptions, that the massive-jawed Heidelberg man did not necessarily have a gorilline cranium.2021, Edward B. Davis, The Antievolution Pamphlets of Harry Rimmer. From the entry gorilline
  • The reality, however, is a disquieting and entirely white town, littered with old apartheid flags and monuments to the architects of segregation.2019 October 24, Dennis Webster, “'An indictment of South Africa': whites-only town Orania is booming”, in The Guardian, archived from the…. From the entry apartheid
  • But the strangler's disquiet proved unbased.2002, Eric Flint, Richard Roach, Forward the Mage. From the entry unbased
  • Well, I can now see why ABC did not hop on the boards here to try and quell the disquiet the 'wedding' arc caused.1996 March 16, Zoomway, “Updated Spoilers on OW”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet). From the entry waff
  • This powerful but disquieting thunderlight circled the tiny body with the idiot speed of the atmosphere surrounding a gas giant—Jupiter, say, or Saturn.1995, Stephen King, Insomnia. From the entry thunderlight
  • To invoke the aid of an electronic computer in mapping Yeats's private worlds of myth and symbol and Irish legend may well arouse disquiet.1963, James Allan Painter, “Editor's Preface”, in Stephen Maxfield Parrish, editor, A Concordance to the Poems of W. B. Yeats, Ithaca…. From the entry electronic computer
  • To this I might have paid less heed but for its disquieting confirmation on a later day at a psychic parlour in Edgware Road.1915, Leon Wilson, Ruggles of Red Gap. From the entry surfaceman
  • In holier ways that honor and bless with peace and happiness, passing the understanding of ghost whisperers 'tall', under-handing utterances of -- disquieting anxieties, invading love's sanctuary.2009, Alfred Colo, REAPER: Elegy, →ISBN. From the entry underhanding
  • When this new and disquieting Bibliolatry approaches the problems of life, it is inevitably gnostical rather than mystical in its emphases, escapist not realist in its impulses.1948, James Parkes, “Man’s Disorder and God’s Design. The Amsterdam Assembly series, in four volumes: […]”, in The Hibbert Journal, volume…. From the entry bibliolatry
  • Small things, inessential details, bulk as largely as before, and only time can clear them away; tragedy is at first bewilderment, hardly more than a sense of disquiet.1908, The Quarterly Review, John Murray, pages 375-376. From the entry consummately

Meaning of disquiet

  1. noun Lack of quiet; absence of tranquility in body or mind.
  2. adjective Deprived of quiet; impatient, restless, uneasy.
  3. verb To make (someone or something) worried or anxious.

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Questions about disquiet in a sentence

How do you use disquiet in a sentence?
Disquiet is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “He felt disquieted by the lack of interest the child had shown.”
What is a short sentence with disquiet?
“But the strangler's disquiet proved unbased.”
What does disquiet mean?
Disquiet means lack of quiet; absence of tranquility in body or mind.

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