How to Use disturbance in a Sentence

disturbance

noun

• Fish are able to detect even slight disturbances in the water.
• Neighbors called the police to report a disturbance.
• She doesn't want any more disturbances while she is studying.
• He reacts badly to disturbance of his daily routine.
• The violence that soldiers experience in war can lead to emotional disturbance in later years.
• Disturbance of the river's sediment causes cloudy water.
• They were arrested for creating a disturbance.
• There’s a disturbance in the force, and George Lucas wants to help correct the problem.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2024
• There’s fear of the dark, safety concerns and noise disturbances.
  — Jess Reia, Fortune, 30 May 2023
• Police believe the man causing a disturbance was the same man who had called to turn himself in.
  — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• But as the years pass, the strain builds until, like an avalanche on a snow-laden mountain, one small disturbance sets off a chain reaction.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• The rapper tried to fight back, Lazzaro said, and the group is alleged to have fled after employees heard the disturbance.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2023
• The disturbance is expected to drift southward over the next couple of days and landfall of the storm is not expected.
  — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 1 June 2023
• He was awakened by a disturbance between a black bear and his sheep about 1 a.m., park officials said.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 13 July 2023
• Tropical disturbances that have sustained winds of 39 miles per hour earn a name.
  — Judson Jones, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
• After two weeks of disturbance, the bats decided to leave the Botanic Gardens.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• At first, there was confusion in the stadium as people tried to find where the disturbance was coming from.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• In the foreboding clip, a seismometer measures big disturbances in the ground.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2023
• In an attempt to crack down on persistent gang disturbances, Ecuador has been in a state of emergency since Jan. 9.
  — Kyra Colah, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2024
• But there’s also a new disturbance that is consolidating in the Bay of Campeche.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• Sacrificing the disturbance to the property will be well worth the camaraderie of a good old deer camp.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 9 Nov. 2023
• Blue light glasses claim to filter out blue light to reduce eye strain or prevent sleep disturbances.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 28 Aug. 2023
• No strobes nor bait were used to take this photograph, to cause as little a disturbance as possible.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
• The good news: If mood changes or sleep disturbances aren’t present, dementia is unlikely.
  — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 2 June 2023
• Nature is, in the end, rhythm, and our human disturbance of the natural world is a rhythmic turbulence.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• The weather service will be watching a series of disturbances that could affect the weather in Alabama this week and bring on and off rain.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 25 Apr. 2023
• Johnson was responding to a disturbance call Saturday evening in Nyssa, and arrived at the scene to learn the suspect drove off.
  — Austindedios, oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2023
• Although the crowds don’t form with the purpose of causing disturbances, the concerns are not unwarranted.
  — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2023
• Trouble can arise when disturbances such as eating toxic foods like grapes, raisins, and currants.
  — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 21 June 2023
• Flames and smoke surge out of the back of the building, with the same intensity as the wind whipping the flag in the 2017 painting, but in the foreground the museum floats in a pool of water showing nary a trace of disturbance.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024