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Meanwhile, the political culture gelled during the 1970s as the new antiwar, youth, green, gay, Chicano and women's movements joined the traditional labor and civil rights groups in a progressive coalition that survives, if uneasily, to this day.—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 The Colonial militia members, outnumbered, shift uneasily.—Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2025 Escalator over the Hill Again no choice For the poor pale house
Riding uneasily
Over the Hill
In a phone interview, Mantler recalled learning her part by heart as her mother sang the words into her ear.—Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 1 May 2025 And so human rights violators were still sanctioned, the United States agreed to ship antitank missiles to Ukraine, and relations with Mexico were uneasily patched up.—Eliot A. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2018 See All Example Sentences for uneasily
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