unsettle - use in sentences

Object

  • player: However, another way of looking at this is that Jimmy was using commendable nous in attempting to unsettle the players.
  • people: I managed to really unsettle a few people, which was nice.
  • audience: Heather Bell is a fictional character, an actress, whose aim was to create emotion and unsettle the audience.
  • mind: Over a hundred years later it still has the power to raise eyebrows and unsettle some tender minds.
  • market: Reform on these lines would not unsettle the financial markets, which already accept that the existing rules are untenable.

Modifying Another Word

  • still: Memories of his brother's death in particular still unsettle him.

Subject

  • change: There is no inquiry. * I am unsettled by the constant changes within the Interior Ministry.

Preposition: at

  • time: If your child is unsettled at any time during the morning, we will come and get you from the adult service.

Adjective complement

  • most: Not quite sure what was up with BB as she was twitchy and unsettled most of the time and permanently latched on - sigh.

Modifying Another Word

  • rather: Early in the morning Farrow had been rather unsettled in his manner.
  • easily: When she came into Nursery, she had very little language and was very easily unsettled by anything new.
  • clearly: The audience, too, was clearly unsettled by some of the paraphernalia of faith, played up to look initially like drug taking.
  • very: Some children will have been neglected, had very unsettled lives, or have been subject to physical or sexual abuse.
  • really: What really unsettled me was, having been treated in such a way, what their agenda really was.

Used with why or when

  • when: Lou slaps Anita twice and taunts her to hit her back, and is unsettled when she refuses.

Preposition: by

  • teaching: In the case of the Thessalonians they were being unsettled by some false teaching about the second coming.
  • change: There is no inquiry. * I am unsettled by the constant changes within the Interior Ministry.
  • quot: Unsettled by the quot we're a provider has been.

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