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How to use uneasily in a sentence

12 example sentences · adverb

Uneasily means in an uneasy manner. Example: “"This aircraft seems to be acting a bit squirrelly," the pilot complained uneasily to his copilot.”

More sentences with uneasily

  • "This aircraft seems to be acting a bit squirrelly," the pilot complained uneasily to his copilot.From the entry squirrelly
  • This dichotomy represents the two different though intimately related Christianities that coexist uneasily within each other.2001, Steven Fanning, Mystics of the Christian Tradition, page 1. From the entry Christianities
  • Wedel sighed and looked uneasily at the back of Holst’s battle-damaged Semovente.1980, Gunther Lutz, Attack Anzio!, Sphere, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry battle-damaged
  • A more generic geography, one where the suburb uneasily abuts the commercial and industrial, or leaches out to a nonurban frontier.2007, Andrew Shanken, “The Sublime "Jackass"”, in Places, volume 19. From the entry leach
  • In other words, the de-queering of Shakespeare suggests that a queer Shakespeare may be lurking uneasily beneath the surface.2001, Maria F. Magro, Mark Douglas, “Reflections on Sex, Shakespeare and Nostalgia in Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night”, in Deborah Cartmell…. From the entry de-queering
  • She was perfumed, and beside the wave of her perfume, Mendel perceived uneasily the heavy, goatish odor of Pavel's sweating body.1985, Primo Levi, chapter 12, in William Weaver, transl., If Not Now, When?, New York: Summit, page 330. From the entry goatish
  • Thus was the Commission, caught in vast inscrutables, uneasily observing a hydra-headed giant, forestretched, abysmally yawning, in disturbed slumber.1961, Peter Decker, Benedict Arnold: Son of the Havens - Page 145. From the entry forestretch
  • He paced the floor uneasily, his hands under his coat-tails.1909, Mary Roberts Rinehart, “Finer Details”, in The Man in Lower Ten, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 345. From the entry coat-tail
  • High in the rafters, a bivouac of ants swayed uneasily in the draught created by the shutting of the heavy, old, wooden door.2022, Ian D. Hall, Underneath, Beaten Track Publishing. From the entry bivouac
  • And the Mediterranean world, meeting ground of diverse civilizations from Asia, Africa, and Europe, slumbered uneasily during the final hours of the (baptized) Pax Romana.1989, Anne Buttimer, The wake of Erasmus: saints, scholars, and studia in mediaeval Norden, page 4. From the entry Middle Ocean
  • As I waded through the mud to go down into the bombproof, it struck me uneasily that our officers glanced at each other.1915, Edward Lyell Fox, Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany. From the entry bombproof
  • On the podium a goalkeeper was moving back and forth, sideways, in front of the full-scribbled goal behind him, uneasily wagging his hands to and fro, wigwagging.2015, Bertil Dunér, chapter 5, in Little Counsellor, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry wigwag

Meaning of uneasily

  1. adverb In an uneasy manner.

Full definition of uneasily

Questions about uneasily in a sentence

How do you use uneasily in a sentence?
Uneasily is used as an adverb. For example: “"This aircraft seems to be acting a bit squirrelly," the pilot complained uneasily to his copilot.”
What is a short sentence with uneasily?
“He paced the floor uneasily, his hands under his coat-tails.”
What does uneasily mean?
Uneasily means in an uneasy manner.

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